By Evaggelos Vallianatos Prologue
Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, has a continuity of existence from ancient times to the present day. In spite of multiple depredations inflicted on the country over millennia, Greek ideas, science, discoveries and practices forming the...
By Lambros Karpodinis
We left off in Alexandria, Egypt, where the Jews had migrated in large numbers and became thoroughly Hellenized. Egypt was under the Ptolemaic dynasty, the lingua franca was Greek, the Old Testament was translated into Greek, thereby...
PHOTO: Ιστορία, πίνακας Νικολάου Γύζη, 1892. Δημόσιος Τομέας.
Γράφει ο Εὐάγγελος Βαλλιανᾶτος
Πρόλογος: Η ελευθερία γέννησε τον Πολιτισμό
Ο Ζακυνθινός ποιητής Ανδρέας Κάλβος, 1792 - 1869, στην ‘Ωδή Τετάρτης εις Σάμον,’ έγραψε: “Θέλει αρετή και τόλμη η ελευθερία.”
Πράγματι, ο Κάλβος έκφρασε το...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
By Helleniscope’s Editorial Team
Dr. Ioanna Sitaridou is a Cambridge-based linguist whose work offers a rare portal into the historical depth of Greek. As a scholar of historical linguistics, she...
By Evaggelos Vallianatos Plato’s allegory of the cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604, Albertina, Vienna. Public Domain. Prologue
I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek...
UPDATES WEDNESDAY 7.00 PM The organizing committee will hold a press conference with Yiannis Smaragdis at 11 am Saturday at the Vista Hotel, 6th Floor, 27-05 39th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101. All members of the press are invited...
Kalinitta: The Song of the Greeks of Italy in the Griko Dialect Is an Ode to the Power of the Greek Language
A song in Grekanika—the dialect of the Greeks spoken by the Griko in Southern Italy. This remarkable song,...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). In this interview with Savvas Kalenteridis, director Yiannis Smaragdis explains how Ioannis Kapodistrias rose from a distinguished political career in the Ionian State—then under French, Russian, and Ottoman influence—to become one of Europe’s most respected...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis) Journalist Jenny Panteli spoke with renowned director Giannis Smaragdis on the occasion of the premiere of his new film Kapodistrias, which will take place on November 29 in New York. The filmmaker, known for Cavafy,...
PHOTO: Jewish tombstone (doubled Menorah) from Roman Time with Greek inscription (for Primitiva and her nephew Euphrenon), copy of the Museo della civiltà romana (Rome), original in the Vatican Museums
By Lambros Karpodinis If Hellenic culture, language, and philosophy had not...
