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ISSUE 7: Slavery before Kaenogenesis
1450 to 1830
The fall and decline of Byzantium engenders Renaissance in Europe, the New World is discovered and exploited by northern European countries while Greece is enslaved for centuries by the Ottoman Turks, but survives. May 2008
The 7th issue of Greek Ethos, will focus on the 5 centuries between the fall of Constantinople on Tuesday 29 May 1453 to the war of liberation in 1821 with stories on the life of the Greeks under the yoke of the authoritarian Ottoman Sultan, the rise of Thessaloniki as the capital of the Balkans with a cosmopolitan population, the advancement in culture and riches of the rest of Europe with the exploitation of the Americas after their discovery in 1492, the apogee of the Renaissance [Αναγέννησης] Arts as exemplified by El Greco, [Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος] the Cretan iconographer painting his masterpieces in Toledo Spain despite the Inquisition, plus synopsis of Greek literary works of that time such as Erotokritos, the decline and fall of Byzantium, and also stories on some of our own people.