Graham Speake Books

The book delves into Athos's significant influence on the dissemination of Orthodoxy and the establishment of Orthodox monasticism across Eastern Europe and beyond. It examines the historical and cultural impact of Athos, highlighting its pivotal role in shaping religious practices and communities in the region. Through detailed analysis, the work reveals how Athos became a center for spiritual development and a key player in the Orthodox faith's expansion.

Chiefly papers delivered at a conference held in Feb. 2009 at Cambridge University.

Ranging from the year of the first Olympic Games in 776 BC to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476, this dictionary contains over 2000 entries providing a reference guide to the ancient Greco-Roman world. It includes entries on personalities, events, politics, literature, art and society.

Spiritual guidance is the serious business of Mount Athos, the principal service that the Fathers offer to each other and to the world. Athonites have been purveyors of spiritual guidance for more than a thousand years in a tradition that goes back to the fourth-century desert fathers. The recent monastic renewal on the Mountain is testimony to the Fathers’ continuing power to attract disciples and pilgrims to listen to what they have to say. The papers included in this volume examine some of the many aspects of this venerable tradition, as it has developed on Mount Athos, and as it has devolved upon monks and nuns, spiritual fathers and confessors, lay men and women, in other parts of Greece and in the world. Most of the papers were originally delivered at a conference convened by the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 2013.