The truths you didn't learn!

March is traditionally the month of a more general reflection in relation to his Revolution 1821 and its extensions. Last year we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the uprising of the Greeks against the Ottoman Empire, an event that was accompanied by the publication of dozens of literary works that tackled a multitude of issues related to that time period as well as the forbidden books for 1821 from the Lux Orbis Series.

It is an indisputable fact that the dedication of the Series Lux Orbis of ed. iWrite into the unknown 1821 attracted the intense interest of the reading public, covering data an "information gap" in Greek book production on a series of topics that are considered (wrongly) by some as taboo for modern Greek society. In practice, it finally turned out that concerns such as the role of the Clergy during the preparation of the Revolution, the relations between supreme hierarchs and the Ottoman Administration, the conflict between the Enlighteners and the patriarchy over a series of issues, among which the entry of Natural Sciences into Greek schools, the pre-revolutionary phenomena of censorship of ideas on the part of the patriarchy, not only did not... frighten the Greek readers, but pushed them to seek - and still seek - more information and perspectives on the aforementioned.

The special editions of the Series Lux Orbis for forbidden books of 1821 they continue to this day to be an invaluable commercial success, inoculating the younger generations of our compatriots with new perspectives and original material of the time.

Books like the "Paternal and Fraternal Teaching” (Adamantios Korais – Patriarch of Jerusalem Anthimos), the Parisian magazine “Bee"Of his 1821, the "Heliocentric System and life in space in 1821” (Minas Papageorgiou), “The Black Book of 1821” (with a foreword by Thanos Veremis), “The forbidden books of 1821” (with a foreword by Petros Pizania), the “Critical glances at 1821" (by Panagiotis Gennimatas) and "The Old Patras German without a legend” (by Takis Stamatopoulos) are readings that have already been evaluated with a positive sign both for their originality and specificity, and for the seriousness with which they approach Greek History.

The publications iWrite Offer 7 unique books in the Series Lux Orbis dedicated to 1821 with 30% discount through www.iwrite.gr using the coupon books21, until March 31.

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