The Research Department of the Athens Center for Indian and Indo-Hellenic Studies undertakes research οn various classical and contemporary themes aiming to raise awareness and understanding of the Indian culture as well as to promote the Hellenic-Indian comparative, social and historical studies. The projects are divided into several categories, such as Language & Literature, Modern Indian Thinkers, Indian Philosophy & Sanskrit Texts, Indo-Greek Studies, Early Greek Indologists, Translation of Classical and Modern Greek Authors into Indian Languages, Travels in the Beauty & Gnosis, Tourism & Development, Humanities and Social Science, and others.
Governmental, non-governmental and private organizations are welcome to finance the entire project of the Research Department or the preparation of a specific thesis that addresses the pre-defined themes.
Current and Recently Completed Research Projects
Indo-Hellenic Studies – Research Thesis
Title: “Apollo and Krishna – Greece and India in modern European thought and literature”
Researcher: Giorgos Amarantos
Language: Greek
Status: Published by ELINEPA, 2021
Translation
Title: “India Greece through numbers”
Translator: Demetrios Th. Vassiliades
Language: Hindi
Started: July 2019. Completed: August 2019
Status: Published by the Hellenic Statistical Authority
Libraries & Web Resources
Title: “Digital Libraries and Web resources project”
Edition: Research team
Language: Greek and Engish
Started: August 2018. Completed: Constant Update
Status: Published on ELINEPA website
Translation
Title: “A Self Portrait of the University of Athens”
Translator: Demetrios Th. Vassiliades and Rekha K. Rana
Language: Hindi
Started: July 2017. Completed: January 2018
Status: Published by the University of Athens
Early Greek Indologists – Translation and Reprint
Title: “Georgios N. Tserepis – Indika Essays”
Translator: Thomais Gouli
Language: Greek
Started: December 2016. Completed: January 2018
Status: Under publication. ELINEPA
Language & Literature – Translation
Title: Weaves of Time – Pages from a Poetic Diary
Translator: Frosso Vyzovitou
Language: Greek
Started: December 2016. Completed: April 2017.
Status: Published. 1st edition ELINEPA 2017
Indo-Hellenic Studies – Research Thesis
Title: “Nyaya and Aristotelian Logic: A Comparative Study”
Researcher: Dimitrios Chaniotis
Languages: English, Greek, Sanskrit
Started: December 2016.
Status: Ongoing
Humanities and Social Science – Research Paper
Title:“Is it Immoral or Not to Kill Animals?”
Researcher: Dimitrios Chaniotis
Language: Greek & English
Started: August 2016. Completed: December 2016
Status: Published in Indika 2017
Indo-Hellenic Studies – Preparation of the 2nd Edition
Title: “The Greeks in India: A Survey in Philosophical Understanding”
Research: Demetrios Th. Vassiliades
Language: English
Started: December 2016.
Status: Ongoing
Indian Philosophy & Sanskrit Texts – Translation and Commentary
Title: «Yoga Sutra – Commentary on the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali» (in Greek)
Researcher: Demetrios Th. Vassiliades
Language: Greek
Started: January 2016.
Status: Ongoing
Research Development Fund Grants
- Editing and Publication Grant, Hellenic-Indian Society for Culture and Development.
TIMETABLE OF HINDI, SANSKRIT & INDIAN PHILOSOPHY COURSES
Athens Center for Indian and Indo-Hellenic Studies
15, Nikolaou Florou str., Nea Philothei, Athens 11524, GREECE (Metro Panormou)
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