The library of Epitropi Ellinismou offers to those who visit it books and works of its members or friends that deal with the aims of the organization. The books below are available for free in their digital form.
The work of the historian and fellow member, Stephanos Sotiriou, addresses the history and ancestry of the people of Magna Graecia (Southern Italy and Sicily). The book traces their ancestry back to mythological times, with references among others, to the great epic poems of Homer. It continues in historical times, describing not one, but all the Greek colonizations, the Medieval Byzantine era and concludes with the presence today and the resurgence of Hellenism that is occurring in the region.
Osman and Petros combines in a unique way story telling and history. In this way, the historian and member of Epitropi Ellinismou, Stefanos Sotiriou, describes the process of the eventual conquest of Asia Minor by a few thousand nomads from Mongolia and the violent Islamization and Turkification of the region with the collaboration of distinguished Byzantine Greeks. Central to this was the violent child-levying practice, (the longest lasting crime against humanity in history) that lasted for centuries and changed demographics in all the Balkans and Asia Minor.
The English translation of the monumental work of Pavlos Karolidis by the member of Epitropi Ellinismou, George Manolopoulos. The author explains in detail the history of how today’s Orthodox and Catholic of Syria and Palestine draw their ancestry from the Greek settlers of the Hellenistic era (a colonization largely unknown and similar in size to the Greek colonization of southern Italy, Sicily and the Black Sea) and how through Orthodoxy they maintained their ties with the rest of Hellenism through the Middle Ages and until today. He describes how and why the pan-Arabism propaganda came to be in order to separate these Greek communities from the rest of Hellenism.
The translation of this book was requested by members of the Greek Orthodox community of the Levant and our member was happy to aid them in their efforts to raise awareness and awaken Greek national identity amongst the Christian population of the Levant.