Theodoros N. Korbilas

You can contact the author at: kormpilas@gmail.com

Brief Biography of the Author

The author was born in 1936 in Parthenion Mantineias in the District of Arcadia, Greece. He grew up in an environment of agriculture and sheep-rearing. He experienced the most beautiful and genuine HellenoChristian traditions of the time, but also the difficulties and horrors, both of the German occupation and the following civil war.

Despite the problems, he was fortunate to have fine teachers at the primary school in his village and at the then first eight-class High School for Boys in Tripolis, which he graduated in 1954.

Those teachers inspired in him a love for ancient Greek literature which, at that time, was taught for ten hours a week from the original texts.

He followed a career in the Greek Police Force from which he retired with the rank of Major-General. Subsequently he became special secretary of the Greek Association of Retired Police Officers and, for three years, was editor and article-writer for their newspaper.

His love for ancient Greek literature led him to study for many years the works of Aristotle, Plato, Xenophon, Thucydides, Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, the great Church Fathers, and many other ancient writers. The fruit of this study was the publication of the following books:

1. Selection of Aristotelian Teaching. (includes English translation of the texts.)

2. Selection of Platonic Teaching. (includes English translation of the texts.)

3. Military and Political Teachings of Thucydides.

4. The Play: “The Death of Socrates”.

5. The Play: “Joseph”.

6. The history of his village and of Tripolis entitled: “Our Past and Present”.

7. Another work related to No. 6, entitled: “Our roots”.

8. “Revealing Signs of the Times”.

9. “Fragrant Medicine for the Soul from the Saints”.

10. “The Letter of Saint Basil to the Young Men”.

11. “Parthenion Stories”.

He has also written a wealth of articles on historical, philosophical and social topics, published in various journals.

His philosophical Creed is precisely the same as that of our Holy Orthodox Church, believing that:

“Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body…” (Paul to the Philippians, 3.20).

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts, 4.12).

The author, as a faithful child of the Church, offers his service as cantor at the lectern of the Holy Church of Saint George, Parthenion (his native village). From this service he has learnt a lot.