19544 - We continue relentlessly

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias

You are wondering constantly if you constitute a continuation of Antiquity, because some have told you, that you have nothing to do with those given facts as a result of the Turkish rule, and you believe in this servility, because you forgot to read the Chronicle of Morea, the Alexiad, the Tactics and the Strategics, to hear the Son of Andronikos, the Song of Armouri and Digenis Akritas, in order to then prepare the continuity with Erotokritos.
Why must you forget the Byzantine circle, the Acritic circle, the Pontian circle , the Cretan circle?
What is the reason;
Considering that, the continuity of Antiquity passed through Byzantium.
Why do you forget that we overcame iconoclasm, if you believe, and if you’re a believer?
If you comprehend, that the truth is the denial of oblivion, then you must see that what’s proper is to remember and not forget, in order to face the brutality of indifference.
Hold on to strategy in order to face the powerful enemies.
As for the others, don’t bother with them, because you are wasting your time and ours.
We continue relentlessly as Hellenism, because we have overcame much worse. For centuries we didn’t stop, whatever the obstacles were, because we know that Hellenism is a gift of Time to Humanity and for this reason we shouldn’t kneel, since we know that the nations of freedom see us as an example, as a spearhead against barbarity.