EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). "Aniforos" was Kazantzakis last novel, published in November 2022. Please link here for some information from the Kazantzakis Museum and watch the video of the presentation of the novel at Benaki Museum on Nov. 7,...
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΜΕΤΑΦΡΑΣΗ ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΕΙ
By Nick Stamatakis
It's been a while since I started confessing, not just to a close circle of friends but to the broader Helleniscope audience, that this lively Greek-American community that is so successful in business, arts and...
PAINTING ABOVE: Russian battleships in New York depicted by Harpers Weekly in Oct. 1863.
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). The corrupt Washington DC establishment has been trying to brainwash all Americans that Russia and the U.S. are eternal, sworn enemies, but...
EDITOR'S NOTE. The Sretensky Monastery is a seven-century-old monastery in Moscow, which was mostly dismantled by the Soviets and was rebuilt in the last ten years as Russia, under the leadership of President Putin, turned back to its Orthodox...
By Nick Stamatakis
With lyrics that can be only described as revolutionary, Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond" has touched the hearts of tens of millions of Americans who "live in a New World with an old soul"... The...
EDITOR'S NOTE: For the past ten years or so an amazing voice has been rising in the American opera scene - Nadine Sierra. Now in her 30s, she is the youngest star in Opera and her talent has amazed...
By Alex Aliferis
7/12/23
The ‘Sound of Freedom’ is a movie everyone must watch.
The film hit theaters on July 3, 2023. The movie made over $40 million in its opening weekend, overtaking all other movies.
The movie centers around a true...
EDITOR'S NOTE: It's a rare phenomenon for a poem, a song, a statue, or any cultural artifact to express by its sole existence/performance the essence of the whole culture where it belongs... Such is the case of "Tzivaeri Mou"...
By Nick Stamatakis
Helleniscope is passionate about Greek History and Culture and, long before the producers of Indiana Jones decided to make the Antikythera Mechanism (the first computer of human civilization that most researchers attribute to Archimedes - the main...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Few songs define a culture to eternity... "Zorba", of course, is one for us... "Je ne regrait rien" (Edith Piaf) for the French... Or "Je t'aime moi non plus" by Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin... For the...