BY
DR. KARL DIETERICH
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
BY
CARROLL N. BROWN, Ph.D.
The College of the City of New York
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a brief article on Hellenic Pontus by D. H. Oeconomides, Ph.D.
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| I | A Survey of Hellenism in Asia Minor | 1 |
| II | Hellenism in Asia Minor—By Karl Dieterich,of the University of Leipzig, translated byCarroll N. Brown, Ph.D., of the College ofthe City of New York. With a preface byTheodore P. Ion, D.C.L. | 8 |
| III | Hellenic Pontus—A Résumé of its History, byD. H. Oeconomides, Ph.D. | 56 |
| American-Hellenic News | 63 | |
Asia Minor is the country which, more than all others,recalls the highest development of Hellenic civilization.Its deeply indented coast formed a chaplet of Hellenicdemocracies which reached out into the interior andactually attacked the Persian civilization, upon whichthey imposed their own stamp. These democracies constitutedthe first rampart of the civilized world of thattime, holding back Persian barbarism. Their historyis one of continual struggle between these two civilizations,a struggle that was terminated at Salamis andat Platæa, where the Persian ambitions were definitivelyburied and Greek civilization saved.
The wise men, the thinkers, the philosophers, thatthese democracies produced, were numerous, and theinfluence of their teachings was very great. These eventoday are radiant with a sublimity that has never beenexcelled.
It was in this Greek element and among the populationsHellenized by them that Christianity first germinated.It was the Greeks of Asia Minor who firstoffered their blood for the triumph of the new faith.The foremost Church Fathers, John Chrysostom, SaintBasil and very many others, were born there or taughtthere