The books you will find on this site are mainly, but not exclusively, concerned with the forms and expressions of Greek life and culture that emerged during the post-Byzantine period while still remaining deeply rooted in the spiritual inheritance of Greek Christendom. This life and culture is often identified by the enigmatic word Romiosyni, which derives from the connection of the Greeks with 'new Rome' — Constantinople — and the Eastern Roman Empire. People who dwelt within this Empire called themselves Romioi — Romans — hence Romiosyni, which in a non-nationalistic sense could be rendered as Hellenism. It is for this reason that many of books on this site have been published within the encompass of what is called 'The Romiosyni Series'. Romiosyni is a word that has both historical and emotional connotations and expresses for modern Greeks a particular aspect of their national identity. Historically, this identity was not limited to a political, racial or territorial boundary, and this sense of nationality depended more on the sharing of a certain milieu, almost a state of mind, than on anything else.

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Marcus Plested

The Master Builder

Demetrios Koutroubis (1921–83) was a wholly remarkable figure: one of the greatest, but also one of the least well known, Orthodox theologians of the modern era. Variously described as a lay staretz, a monk of the world, and a latterday Socrates, Koutroubis is a figure who deserves much more attention than he has hitherto been affor... more

Gail Holst-Warhaft

Nisiotika

Dance! dance! enjoy your youth because you won't find it again in this world. Let the dancing go on, this earth will eat us, this earth will eat us, let the dancing go on. Whoever has a good heart and often celebrates, they're the only ones who enjoy this false world. This ea... more

Ilias Venezis

Land of Aeolia

This present translation brings one of the most beloved works of modern Greek literature to readers of English for the first time in its entirety. Land of Aeolia tells the story of the author’s childhood summers in Anatolia before World War I, before the Greek genocide, the Greco-Turkish war, the author’s captivity by the Turks, and be... more

The Boundless Garden: Vol. II

The stories included in this second volume of Alexandros Papadiamandis’s literary work were written during the years 1894–1902, a period regarded as his most creative. As the nineteenth century gives way to the twentieth, in these stories we are presented with an unrivalled gallery of authentic individuals who are emerging out of a... more

Alexandros Papadiamandis

The Boundless Garden: Volume II

The stories included in this second volume of Alexandros Papadiamandis’s literary work were written during the years 1894–1902, a period regarded as his most creative. As the nineteenth century gives way to the twentieth, in these stories we are presented with an unrivalled gallery of authentic individuals who are emerging out of a... more