Writings
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Fifteenth-Century Realities and Classicizing Historiography:Laonikos Chalkokondyles’s Apodeixeis Historiōn
Continue reading: Fifteenth-Century Realities and Classicizing Historiography:Laonikos Chalkokondyles’s Apodeixeis HistoriōnLaonikos Chalkokondyles wrote, in the third quarter of the fifteenth century, the longest continuous Greek narrative of the events that transformed the world he was born into. The Apodeixeis Historiōn (Ἀποδείξεις ἱστοριῶν) – the “Demonstrations of Histories,” a title that announces its Herodotean allegiance in its first word – narrates the rise of the Ottoman state and the Fall of Byzantium, with the structure and vocabulary of a historian who had been dead for nearly two millennia.
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Two Figures of Their Own Times: Lives of Libanius and John Chrysostom
Continue reading: Two Figures of Their Own Times: Lives of Libanius and John ChrysostomLibanius, a key figure in fourth-century Antioch, offers invaluable insights into the city’s complex social and religious landscape in this period. Our primary source for understanding his life comes from his own writings.
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Constructing Narratives and Fourth Century Antioch: History, Memory, and Myths
Continue reading: Constructing Narratives and Fourth Century Antioch: History, Memory, and MythsThis chapter probes how Libanius and John Chrysostom dealt with Antioch’s past in their conceptualization of the city. In Late Antiquity, Averil Cameron aptly writes, “the past was so real that it was subject of intense competition.”
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The History of the Church by Eusebius and Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Venerable Bede
Continue reading: The History of the Church by Eusebius and Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Venerable BedeEusebius’ The History of the Church, and nearly four centuries later, St. Bede’s The Ecclesiastical History of the English People opened new chapters in the long history of the historiographical tradition.
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A City Where the Last Hopes Gathered: Late Byzantine Mistra and Peloponnese and Their Functions and Reception by the Contemporaries
Continue reading: A City Where the Last Hopes Gathered: Late Byzantine Mistra and Peloponnese and Their Functions and Reception by the ContemporariesCyriac of Ancona, considered by some as the founding father of modern classical archaeology, while traveling in the winter of 1447-48 in and around ancient Sparta and Mistra, wrote in his diaries the following verses that he says he heard from Calliope, singing in their “most delightful Italian tongue:” “Great Laconian city of Sparta,/ the glory of Greece, once example to the world/ of warfare and of chastity; gymnasium and…
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A Foreign Princess in the Constantinopolitan Court and amid Severe Power Struggles: Maria of Antioch
Continue reading: A Foreign Princess in the Constantinopolitan Court and amid Severe Power Struggles: Maria of AntiochIn the history of Byzantine Empire, 11th and 12th centuries were exceptional regarding the number of powerful women who steered the empire or had an impact on the imperial policies, although previous centuries also encountered mighty empresses such as Theodora, wife of Justinian II.
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An Alternative Approach for Reading the Pediments and Metopes of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Continue reading: An Alternative Approach for Reading the Pediments and Metopes of the Temple of Zeus at OlympiaIn the northwestern part of the Peloponnesian peninsula, one of the most important Panhellenic sanctuaries of Greece is located: the Sanctuary of Olympia.
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The Relationship Between the Kings and the Cities in the Hellenistic Period
Continue reading: The Relationship Between the Kings and the Cities in the Hellenistic PeriodWhen Alexander the Great decided to take revenge from the Persians after he had inherited a kingdom from his father, Philip II, he was also giving a new direction to Greek history.
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Military Memories of My Father, I
Continue reading: Military Memories of My Father, II found with the help of my mother a notebook about my father’s military service. On the cover page, “Mehmetcik’s Handbook (Mehmetçiğin El Defteri)” is written.
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Annem ve Hüzün
Continue reading: Annem ve HüzünAnnem için… Annemin anlattıkları içimde her zaman “bunu anlatmalıyım, bunlar hiçbir zaman kaybolmamalı” fikrini doğurur.