Project Gutenberg 2025-06-21 Public domain in the USA. 160 Inha, Into Konrad 1865 1930 Inha, I. K. (Into Konrad) Nyström, Into Konrad Nystrom, Into Konrad Hellas ja helleenit : $b Piirteitä nykyisestä Kreikasta ja sen muinaismuistoista $aHelsinki :$bOtava, $c1897. Tapio Riikonen "Hellas ja helleenit : Piirteitä nykyisestä Kreikasta ja sen muinaismuistoista" by I. K. Inha is a travelogue and historical account written in the late 19th century. It combines on-the-spot reportage from Greece with vivid reflections on classical ruins, the character of modern Hellenes, and the nation’s long arc from antiquity through Ottoman rule to renewed statehood in the shadow of a recent Greco‑Turkish crisis. A journalist-narrator observes landscapes, cities, and people while revisiting the myths and monuments that shaped European civilization. Expect reflective travel scenes interleaved with accessible history and cultural portraiture, not a single continuous plot. The opening of the work sets the terms in a brief preface: the author is a newspaperman offering impressions from a short stay in Athens, with antiquities as a main focus. It begins on Acrocorinth, contrasting glowing temple ruins and noble figures of poor shepherds with a sweeping evocation of Greece as Europe’s cultural cradle. A long, compressed survey follows: from Roman-era decline through barbarian raids, Byzantine shifts, Slavic, Saracen, and Norman incursions, Venetian depredations (including the Parthenon’s ruin), and the rise of European philhellenism. The narrative then recounts the Greek War of Independence—Ottoman oppression, klepht and armatole fighters, atrocities on both sides, philhellenic volunteers (notably Byron), naval heroes, Ibrahim Pasha’s onslaught, Mesolongi’s stand, and great‑power intervention leading to independence. Finally it turns to contemporary tensions with Turkey over Crete and irredentist aims, before shifting into the author’s own journey south from Finland to Corfu during wartime excitement, where he records early front reports and first impressions of the Mediterranean world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20230611120254inha 1897 FI Reading ease score: 32.0 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Greece -- History Greece -- Description and travel DF Text Category: Travel Writing Category: History - European 324103 2025-07-30T07:47:09.817323 text/html 196988 2025-07-30T07:47:16.250756 application/epub+zip 199823 2025-07-30T07:47:12.496308 application/epub+zip 187324 2025-07-30T07:47:11.419274 application/epub+zip 371796 2025-07-30T07:47:19.284737 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 351400 2025-07-30T07:47:15.582783 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 305410 2025-07-30T07:47:09.464322 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 285645 2025-06-21T17:40:17 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13199 2025-07-30T07:47:19.413737 application/rdf+xml 14740 2025-07-30T07:47:11.929273 image/jpeg 3535 2025-07-30T07:47:11.678281 image/jpeg 195481 2025-07-30T07:47:09.848302 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fi.wikipedia