The principle idea of this book is to reduce a typical three hundred page language textbook to approximately one hundred pages. This size book will give the sudent greater comfidence tha he can learn and retain the subject.This book is mainly for persons who have studied Modern Greek formally and wish to refresh themselves in the Greek language

This book is about Greek Americans who have lived or live in Essex County, New Jersey. Greeks first started to immigrate to the United States in large numbers after 1900. This book gives the stories of individual Greek American families. It gives a cross section of the Greek immigrants who come to America between 1900 and 1930. And it gives a cross section of the children of these immigrants. A Greek American community is synonomous with a parish of the Orthodox Church. In Essex County the community consisted of four churches. These churches are St. Nicholas, St. Demetrios, St. Fanourios, and Sts Constantine and Helen. The priests who served these churches and their period of service are listed in the book. The churches' religious services and Sunday and Greek schools greatly participate in shaping the moral character of the people. This book contains the biographies of individual families of the community. The biographies are arranged alphabetically, except that biographies about children or grandchildren of a particular family immediately follow the root family biography, so as to maintain the continuity of that family. The chief characteristics of the first immigrants were their high moral character and their industriousness. They passed these good characteristics onto their children. These immigrants were also highly supportive of education, and saw to it that their children received a good education. Because of all of these factors, today the immigrants' children and grandchildren are leaders in commerce, industry, education, and government. They have accomplished what their parents desired for them. Truly they have achieved the American dream.

A major reason for unhappiness in the world is due to material excesses. Because of these excesses, men have distanced themselves from God. They attempt to find the meaning of life through some material thing in life. This book aims to return people to God by influencing them to read the Holy Bible. Life can be lived in a simple fashion, but man makes life complicated. Not all people make life complicated, but there are enough people who do make life difficult for the rest. These people behave as they do because they have flawed reasoning. Hopefully, the things stated in this book will bring people with flawed reasoning to correct reasoning. This book strives to show what is to be done in all areas of life for one to lead a proper life. First the individual is considered and then the various groups he normally encounters in his daily life. Then the book considers the categories above the community level, the governments, the world, and the universe. The areas that man usually is involved with in his daily life fall into seven categories: mind, body, school, church, housekeeping, work, and society. The chapters that cover these areas are: Mind, Body, Education, Religion, Home, Occupation, and Society. Man must completely understand and control these areas of life. The next consideration of the book are the governments. It summarizes the functions of the Municipalities, Counties, States, and Nation. To live a proper life, man must know how his government operates and what his obligations to the government are. The World and Universe chapters complete the considerations of the areas of life. Man must not only be a good citizen of his own community and country, he must also be a good citizen of the world and universe. He has duties to perform to his fellowman everywhere. In the last chapter of the book we arrive at God. In order to reach God, we must be in harmony with all individuals, all organizations of man, and the universe itself. When one conducts ones life as proposed in this book, it will lead to his eventual unification with God.

Mani, Laconia, Greece has a unique position in the history of the Greek nation. Although a fewother regions of Greece at times opposed the Turks in their four hundred year occupation of Greece, Mani continually opposed them. This book covers the history ofMani from her pre-historical periodto her independence from Turkey in 1821.In prehistoric times Mani was inhabited by the Leleges, Achaeans, and Dorians. The Doriansevolved into the Spartans. Tradition says that the Spartans were given their highly-disciplinary lawsby Lycurgus. They developed a society composed of freemen, perioeci, and helots. Nabis's revoltdrove the oligarchic Spartans to neighboring Mani. Mani first became a distinctive region whenRome recognized her as the Commonwealth of the Lacedaemonians because she aided Augustusin the battle of Actium.Through the ages various people have immigrated to Mani: Albanians, Mardaltes, Slavs, andWallachians. Because of her isolation by the rugged mountain Taygetus, Mani was not generallyconverted to Christianity until the tenth century. After the Crusaders conquered Constantinople in1204, the Franks descended to Laconia, conquered her, and established themselves in three greatfortresses in Mani.After the Byzantine Empire fell to the Turks in 1453, the Maniates revolted eight different timesagainst the Turks. In 1685 the Venetians drove the Turks out of the Peloponnese, but in 1715 theyreturned.Two social classes developed in Mani: the Nyklians and achamnomeroi. The Nyklians were theupper class of merchant-landowners. The Nyklians built tower houses to protect themselves duringtheir family feuds. To maintain peace, the Maniates evolved the "unwritten laws"' ofMani. Theydeveloped theunique funeral dirge of revenge in which family dirge singers fanatically urgedrevenge whenever a person was killed.Each region of Mani was governed by a captain. From 1776-1821 the Maniates were ruled by abey, who was one of the captains of Mani. The Turks appointed this bey but had d

The Byzantine Greeks continued the spectacular ancient Greek civilization for another thousand years. Like their forefathers, they were involved in every art and science. Approximately 250 key personalities contributed greatly to Byzantine culture. This book describes the known work of these medieval personalities. There are various books that give the lives of the more famous of these medieval Greeks. There are a number of biographical dictionaries that give one-line descriptions of more of these medieval personalities. This book, though, is an attempt to describe the major points about all Medieval Greek personalities of which anything is known. It is a handy encyclopedia in which one can quickly find the salient features of any Medieval Greek personality. Each article in this book has the following order: the personality's name is stated, this is followed by his birth and death years or whatever of these can be approximated. The first sentence of the text gives the areas in which the personality was active and his birthplace if known. This is followed by a description of whatever is known about the character and life of the personality. the personality.

There were approximately 3,000 key ancient Greek personalities that contributed to every conceivable art and science. The work of one-quarter of these has survived and this book describes the work of 704 of these personalities. This book is a handy encyclopedia in which one can quickly learn the salient features of all known ancient Greek personalities.