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Demosthenes And Our Times
By: Kaiti Mavridou-Livanis
Translation from the Greek by : Evi
Martyn
Man today has been driven to living in Society without having learned
how to live in the Community, and this maybe the huge problem the world is facing
in the 21st Century. Living in
Society is a particle, a molecule, if you will, that is used to develop
mechanism with a prearranged design for a specific cause. Living in the community people have the chance to define their own
direction, self criticism, and prominence.
In today's globalized environment and materialistic impasse we have come. The only solution that is left is to
return to the future (Let's go back to the future). There is still room to return to the future
utilizing the past from which a man can draw examples from the immortal Greece.
ATHENS 384 B.C.
Alexander the Great, facing the Persian danger, followed the
preexistent thinking of his father, King Philip, decided to unite the Greeks in
a common confrontation of the enemy and to create Hellenism that would embrace the
entire world!!! He created the first
Hellenic Society under the Eyes of "ONE."
Across from the Macedonian storm, Demosthenes, a diminutive, almost
sickly, lisping Athenian who with his patience and perseverance and personal
methods, achieved with self criticism and self direction to overcome his flaws,
become the greatest ORATOR defending Justice.
He defended Athens,
which had already lost its grandeur and power due to the bad management of
its politicians.
Demosthenes, became the greatest ORATOR ever as an Athenian and Hellene, using
the word “WE” instead of “I” and putting the Community above the Society.
His speeches had power, thickness, discipline, and inner tension displaying his
love for his City of Athens for which he often made errors. Eventually he punished himself by committing suicide in 322 B.C.
The Athenian Democracy 42 years after Demosthenes’ death acknowledged
his worth and uniqueness by erecting a bronze statue. On the base of the statue one reads:
“Demosthenes, if you had as much power as you had brains the
Athenians would never have had to stoop to the Macedonian sword.”
Article by: Kaiti Mavridou-Livanis
Journalist / Author
Translation from the Greek by: Evi Martyn
Founder/Hellenic
Culture Advocacy
June 1, 2013
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