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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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  Friedrich Nietzsche on the Greeks
         Translation from the German by: Evi Martyn


The great philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900) in one
of his articles on the ancient Greek civilization had this to say:

   " It is a proven fact that in every period of development and
      progress the civilization of western Europe has attempted
      to free itself from the Greeks.''

     That attempt ends up in full disappointment, because what
     ever western Europe has tried to create, which on the surface
     seemed innovative and praise worthy, lost its colour and
     vitality compared to the Greek model !!!

        It shrunc, and became a cheap copy, like a caricature.

    Thus, people continue to feel shame and fear towards the
    Greeks.
    Certaintly, from time to time, some one appears who reco-
    gnises the truth completely----the truth that teaches us all
    that the Greeks are the pioneers in every new civilization
    and the charioteers, and the horses of the new civilizations
    are of cheap quality compared to the pioneers ( the Greeks)
    and finally they drive the new chariots to an abyss, while
    the Greeks can jump right over it with an Achilles's jump"
                                                          -- Friedrich Nietzsche--

    Translation from the original German by:
 
    Evi Martyn//founder of the Hellenic Culture Advocacy