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HALL OF THE TROPHIES
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George Finlay
History of the Greek Revolution, vol. I Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1861 Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE BRITISH HISTORIAN and philhel- lene George Finlay, who left his country and rushed to help the Struggle for the liberation of Greece, de- scribes the bloody conflicts between the Greeks and the Turks in the insurrection of Patras. He speaks for «fanaticism of religious hatred», which diachronical- ly drives people to commit atrocious acts. Citing, as a matter of fact, as an exemplary concept Homer’s words, that slavery deprives men of humanity by half, he considers that the case of Patras demon- strates that the Greeks did not improve, but, on the contrary, became worse in the course of three thou- sand years. Even more he blames the Greek histo- rians for concealing the integral barbarism of the kleftes, pointing out that «the objectives of a nation are better served by writing its history in the spirit of Thucydides and Tacitus. Worthy of note is that historiography has repeatedly questioned Finlay’s objectivity and solemnity.
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Logios Hermes
Appendix to issue 9 (1st May 1821), Vienna
Publication of the excommunication of the Revolution in the Danubian Principalities by Patriarch Gregory V Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE DECLARATION OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION in the Danubian Principalities by Alexandros Ypsilantis in February 1821 was suc- ceeded by its denouncement on the part of Patri- arch Gregory V. The enraged reaction of the Sul- tan, when he received the news of the insurrection of the Greeks, and the fear of massive retaliation against the Greek-Orthodox flock of the Ottoman Empire led Patriarch Gregory V to disassociate by
excommunication the position of the Church from the revolutionists.
The Greek newspapers of Vienna refused to publish the relevant text. Finally, under the pressure of the charge d’ affairs of the Sublime Porte, Ioannis Mavrogenis, the editor of Logios Hermes, Konstantinos Kokkinakis, was forced to include it as appendix to the last issue of the 1st May 1821, with the remark «I was requested to accept the present special appendix to no. 9 of L.H.».
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