Preface

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I. The influence of heritages from the past

II. The Mycenean Greeks' successes and failures

III. The Hellenic Greeks' heritage from the Mycenean Greeks

IV. The Hellenic Greeks' successes and failures

V. The Byzantine Greeks' heritage from the Hellenic Greeks

VI. The Byzantine Greeks' successes and failures

Economy

The Byzantine Greek civilization's attractiveness and its limits

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

The incubus of the East Roman Empire

The incubus of the Hellenic Paideia

VII. The modern Greeks' heritage from the Byzantine Greeks

VIII. The modern Greeks' heritage from the Hellenic Greeks

IX. The modern Greeks' successes and failures

The change in the Greeks' attitude towards the west

The Greeks' successful engagement in the economic life of the modern world

The modern limitations of the Greeks' freedom of choice between forms of political independence

The Greek language's vicissitudes in the modern age

X. Conclusion

Appendix: The post-Mycenaean dark age

Appendix I; Poúplios' Graeco-Syrian monastery

Appendix II: Victimized patriarchs

Appnedix: George Yemistós Plêthon's totalitarian Hellenism.