Balanos Parthenon
Balanos is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: * Balanos Vasilopoulos (1694–1760), Greek cleric, author, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher * Georgios Balanos (1944–2020), Greek author, publisher, and translator *Nikolaos Balanos (1869–1943), Greek architect For the Egyptian perfume component, see Moringa peregrina ''Moringa peregrina'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Moringaceae that is native to Arabian Peninsula Horn of Africa and Southern Sinai, Egypt and can be found throughout Arabia, Egypt and as far north as Syria. Moringa peregrina ...

Balanos Vasilopoulos
Balanos Vasilopoulos ( el, Μπαλάνος Βασιλόπουλος; 1694–1760) was a Greek Orthodox cleric, author, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He is known for attempting to solve doubling the cube. He was one of the most influential Greek mathematicians of the 18th century. His teacher was the notable scientist Methodios Anthrakites. He made a significant contribution to the Modern Greek Enlightenment during the Ottoman occupation of the Greek world. Life Balanos was born in Ioannina, a major center of the Greek Enlightenment movement during that time. He was a student of Methodios Anthrakites director of the local Gouma (later Balaneios) school. As a teacher, he initially became director of the school Epifaneios Igoumenos (1719–1734) and then the Gouma. Both schools were the most prestigious in Ioannina. Regarding the Greek language question, he supported the conservative party and teaching classical Greek in education. Eugenios Voulgaris accused Bal ...
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Georgios Balanos
Balanos Georgios (1944–2020) was a Greek translator, author, publisher and researcher of the fields of science fiction, paranormal and magick. According to his official biography presented on his web site, he was born in Athens on 12 April 1944 and attended various university schools without receiving any qualifications. His bio include work as teacher of English language, a photographer, a journalist, a translator and an author. Science fiction-translation Balanos has worked in the field of science fiction and fantasy for many years. Within the Greek novels publisher "Aurora", he translated a great amount of short and medium size novels. One of the most distinctive characteristics, due to which he justifiably became noted, of these his translations is his comments in prologues, where he gave clues about some elements of the unexplained and the paranormal. Balanos' translating activity had begun years before the "Aurora" period. As far back as the early and mid 1980s he ...
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Nikolaos Balanos
Nikolaos Balanos ( gr, Νικόλαος Μπαλάνος, 1869 in Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ... – 22 September 1943) was a Greek architect.A second restoration campaign, since the 1980s, attempts to correct the errors previously committed by Balanos: drums and capitals of the 46 columns, replaced in the right place, iron clamps replaced by titanium elements. This work is based on the research of the Greek architect Manolis Korres (ru). Initially planned for a decade, the renovation campaign should finally end for 2020, with a budget of $ 100 million. Biography After studying at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, he became Director of the Technical Department of the Greek Ministry of Public Instruction. He then worked on the cons ...
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