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Evaggelos Vallianatos
Almost Free: The Hellenic Revolution of 1821 and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in Modern Hellas
By Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D.
Prologue
After nearly four centuries of ceaseless resistance and rebellions against Turkish military occupation of their country, the Greeks revolted to regain...
Freedom or Death: How Adamantios Koraes transformed Greek thought into the Greek Revolution of 1821
The clerical dilemma
The Turkish conquest of Greece in 1453 was a calamity. The best Greeks left the country for Europe. Resistance to the occupiers...
The Second Western Occupation of Greece
By Evaggelos Vallianatos , PhD
Alexandros Hahalis
Alexandros Hahalis is a distinguished musician, music composer, and poet. He read some of my articles and, immediately, invited me to...
Trump’s Lust for Money Invigorates Turkish Aggression
By Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos
Why European leaders are afraid of Turkey NATO officials hesitate to criticize Turkey, much less contemplate policies teaching this Moslem country...
Hellas Reborn
By Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D.
The Greek Revolution
In a few months, Greeks will celebrate the 200-year anniversary of their 1821 Revolution against the Turks. The decision to...
The Death of my Brother: Panages Vallianatos
By: Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D.
My brother Panages (Pete) was eleven years older than me. By the time I was six, he left the village and...
The Meaning of Greece
By: Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D., Contributor
I am Greek and I love Greece. In contrast to Socrates who said I know that I know nothing, I say...
Cyprus in Danger of Extinction
By: Evaggelos Vallianatos, Contributor
It’s not easy to understand why the president of Cypriot democracy Nikos Anastasiades is about to sign off on the very...
Aristotle: The Philosopher Who Invented Science
By Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D.
Two thousand-four hundred years have passed since Aristotle was born in 384 BCE in the small polis of Stageira in northern...
Gods and Marginal Atheists in the Greco-Roman World
By Evaggelos Vallianatos
Reading Homer’s Trojan War epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, is an eye-opening introduction to Greek civilization. The stories are full of...
The Abhorrent and Detestable International Treatment of Greece
By: Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D.
Modern Greece is not a model of virtue. No country is. But to understand the current Greek tragedy brought about largely...
Greek Archaeology and Civilization at Risk
By: Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D.
Discovering the past is necessary but elusive. You think of what you did yesterday and you are often in doubt in...
Greek Athena
By Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D.
In the years 1987 and 1991, Martin Bernal, professor of government at Cornell University, published two hefty volumes of “Black Athena.” The...
Pesticides, Honeybees, and Political Influence
By Evaggelos Vallianatos
I am grateful to Steve Volk for investigating the role of the US Department of Agriculture in the dramatic decline of honeybees....
Is the European Union Pushing Greece Into a Refugee Concentration Camp? By: Evaggelos Vallianatos
By: Evaggelos Vallianatos
Scholar and author of several books, including , "Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA" (with McKay Jenkins)
The ceaseless exodus...