Hellenismos – Origin and HistoryStilian Ariston, April 8th, 2.015

The origins of contemporary Hellenismos

Minoan civilization (Origin of greek culture and religion)↓Mycenaean civilization (Precursor of classical greek culture and religion)↓Archaic Hellenism (Homer, Hesiod, Pre-socratic Philosophers like Xenophanes,Parmenides or Empedocles) ↓Classical Greece (Platonism, Aristotelianism) ↓Hellenistic Greece (Stoicism, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus) ↓Late Antiquity/Hellenism (Flavius Claudius Julianus, Sallustius, Proclus) ↓Early Middle Ages (Last Hellenes of Laconia, Hellenes of Mani Peninsula) ↓Middle Ages (Gemistus Pletho, Michael T. Marullus, the hellenic "Stradiotto"-mercenaries, Hilysios Kallentzis) ↓Early Modern Age (Renaissance, Humanism, Nikolaos Politis, Thomas Taylor, LouisMenard, Jacobin Club of the Ionian Islands) ↓Modern Era (Charalampos Theodoridis; Vlassis G. Rassias; Coalition of ethnicHellenes in Greece; Foundation of the Supreme Council of the Hellenes "for thePreservation and Restoration of the genuine Hellenic Tradition") ↓Today (Timothy Jay Alexander; Modern Hellenismos; gained currency in WesternEurope & in the USA; Defending Hellenismos against "neopagan" distortion of factsand untruths).