“The Great Schools of Ioannina. The Pre-revolution Enlightenment and the Epirotan Benefaction”

A highlighting of the significance of the Epirotan Benefaction, in the context of the celebration of the 200 years from the Greek Revolution.  The Schools of the Aggelonimou generation, the Filantropinon, the Epiphanios, the Giouma-Balanaia, the Maroutseios-Kaplanios, the Zosimaia schools, all renowed Schools of Ioannina, spanning for about six centuries of Education in the cradle of Letters, Ioannina.

The greatness of the Schools falls within their historical context and is connected to the residential development of Ioannina, with facts and people, who constituted important manpower that brought about the complete rupture with the Middle Ages and “opened the way to civilization, changed the economic and commercial terms of Ethnicity and paved the way for a political Renaissance”.