[{"id":82932,"title":"Rhigas Velestinlis","subtitle":"The Proto-Martyr of the Greek Revolution","description":"Rhigas of Velestino (1757-1798) is one of the great national heroes of modern Greece, for it was he who some thirty years before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821 first conceived the possibility of a full-scale national revolution to free Greece from the domination of its Ottoman overlords. His aim was not simply an armed rebellion but a regeneration of his people, through education, literature, propaganda, and social and political awareness. He wrote patriotic stories, poems, scientific lectures; he published detailed maps, translations from French and Italian, and drafted a constitution based οn the ideology of the French Revolution. He was the first Greek to insist that the popular language, or demotic Greek, should become the official language οf independent Greece. \u003cbr\u003eBorn in Greece under Turkish rule, Rhigas emigrated successively to Constantinople, Bucharest and Vienna. He recruited his supporters and laid his plans among the expatriate Greek communities, and he also had many contacts, through his successful activities as a businessman, in the Greek mainland and islands. But he himself was not to witness the realisation of his vision. Οn his way to Greece, where he intended first to stir up the Mani and then move north to Epiros and Macedonia, he was betrayed, arrested by the Austrian police, extradited to the Turkish authorities, and executed, with seven colleagues, at Belgrade. \u003cbr\u003eThis book is the first comprehensive study of Rhigas 's life and ideas in English. ","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84966.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-09-4","isbn13":"978-960-7120-09-0","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":180,"publication_year":1995,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"12.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84966,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/rhigas-velestinlis.json"},{"id":82911,"title":"Christianity and Eros","subtitle":"Essays on the Theme of Sexual Love","description":"In spite of the fact that marriage is recognized as a sacrament by the Church, the attitude of Christian thought towards the sexual relationship and its spiritualizing potentialities has been in practice singularly limited and negative. From the start Christian authors have been ill at ease with the whole subject. Sexual activity tended \u003cbr\u003eto be seen as a sign of man's sinful and degenerate state and the modern Christian is taught tο distinguish between love in the New Testament sense -agape -and eros, and tο see eros as a debased form of agape, if not actuaIly opposed tο it. Αll in all, the Church has done scant justice to its insight that sexual love is, at least potentially, a sacrament. [...]","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84945.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-10-8","isbn13":"978-960-7120-10-6","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":93,"publication_year":1995,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"6.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84945,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/christianity-and-eros.json"}]