The Last Greek Enlightenment

The controversies over the Greek identity and the conflict with K. Paparrigopoulos

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Μthe momentum of the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment may have weakened dramatically immediately after the creation of the new Greek state, however, representatives of these ideas can still be traced until the end of the 19th century. One of the most important personalities of the period was Stefanos Koumanoudis, professor of Latin at the University of Athens and prominent secretary of the Athens Archaeological Society.

For the Greek scholar, the standard and measure of comparison must be the ancient world, while Christianity and Byzantium are not necessarily essential components of the new Greek edifice. The above resulted in the outbreak of fierce conflicts between Koumanoudis and representatives of the famous Greek Christian ideology.

The central core of the book you are holding in your hands are two carefully selected texts by Koumanoudis, which are published for the first time in the modern publishing houses of our country. Most interesting conclusions can be drawn from these writings regarding the positions and directions he wished to give to the modern Greek temperament and identity.

The release of this work is for the philistine Greek readers another tile of the publishing path that we are methodically paving through the Lux Orbis Series. Through this path, events and figures of the new Hellenism are highlighted, which form a luminous chain through time, demonstrating that the modern appeals to the principles and values of the Enlightenment, not only constitute a beneficial path for the course of Hellenism, but remain timeless topical.

Author Biography

Ο Stefanos Koumanoudis was born in 1818 in Andrianoupolis and died in 1899 in Athens. He also lived in Belgrade, Munich, Berlin and Paris. He was the first Greek professor of Latin at the University of Athens, while he was for many years secretary of the Archaeological Society in Athens, producing a memorable work.

He authored works on epigraphy, antiquities and Latin, carried out numerous translations, while speeches, a diary, letters and unpublished notes were preserved in his archive.

Koumanoudis was a case of a scholar who grew up with the Greek state itself. He was particularly concerned with the issue of the formation of national identity, a fact that can be seen in almost every text of his. Ideologically, he belongs to the successors of the Greek Enlighteners, and can be considered as their last direct representative.

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Contents

Series manager introduction
Foreword by Stratos Myrogiannis
Stefanos Koumanoudis: Where is Greek art going today?
Stefanos Koumanoudis: Speech delivered on May 20, 1853 on the anniversary of the foundation of the Othonos University
Epimeter by Panagiotis Gennimatas