Faced with discrimination in Turkey, the Greeks of Istanbul and Imbros overwhelmingly left the country of their birth in the years c.1940-1980 to resettle in Greece, where they received something of a lukewarm reception from the government and segments of the population. This bo…
Lucien J. Frary explores how Russian politics and religion were instrumental in the shaping of modern Greece, providing a broad understanding of 19th-century Russian foreign policy and religious enterprise, as well as the relationship between religion, nationalism, and state-bui…
This dissertation investigates how the Greeks of the Trojan War and Alexander the Great are presented in Old French and Middle English literature. These ancient Greeks are depicted ambiguously: they share some of the characteristics of Jews and Saracens as they are portrayed in …
The Seleucids, while in control of Mesopotamia from 312 B.C. to 129 B.C., had a limited influence on the natives of Mesopotamia. Of the three types of cities found in Mesopotamia, only the {π\acute oλ\iotaζ}\ {\dotελ\lambdaην\acute\iotaζ} showed any Greek influence. Of the other…