Identifier: greece00puau (find matches)
Title: Greece
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Puaux, René, 1878-1937 Brown, Carroll N. (Carroll Neidé), 1869-1938, tr
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Publisher: New York City, Greek Government Exhibition
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ZEMENON—A village on northern coast of Peloponnesus, affording splendid views of theCorinthian Gulf and Mt. Parnassus, 8.700 feet high. SLAVERYAND FREEDOM WE cannot trace here, in this rapidsurvey, the complete history ofGreece throughout the ages. Threegreat stages have marked its evolution.The first ended with the Roman Con-quest, the second with the establishmentof the Byzantine Empire, of which Con-stantinople was the capital, and the thirdwas the overwhelming of Hellenism atthe time of the great Mussulman inva-sion in the fifteenth century. Greekcivilization, which had resisted thebrazen law of the Roman pro-consulsand had taken a new start in the richingenuity of Byzantine art, appeared tohave received, at the time of the con-quest of Constantinople by the Turks(1453), the mortal blow which made itdisappear as an active force in modernhistory. Two forces of a moral nature, religi-ous faith and patriotism, were destinedto save Hellenism, in spite of the most
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ATHENS.—The north porch of theErcchthcum. U frightful servitudeto which a peoplehas ever been sub-jected. For four centuriesthe Greeks, enslavedto the Turks, gath-ered around theirChristian pastors,and. faithful to thegrand traditions oftheir immortal past,awaited the hour ofdeliverance. Thisliberation finallycame at the begin-ning of the nine-teenth century. TheWar of Independ-ence, which brokeout in 1821, seemeddestined, owing tothe scantiness of the

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