By Nick Stamatakis
Before I further discuss the use and abuse of history for current political purposes, let me remind our readers and the friends of Helleniscope that I have visited this subject many times - I have a special...
A SIGNIFICANT EXCERPT FROM THIS EXCELLENT ESSAY BY EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS, from a report sent from Kapodistrias to Metternich in Feb. 1816, describing his plan for Greece:
“Kapodistrias expected all European powers to unanimously agree in establishing an independent Hellas with inviolable...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). This is a story all too familiar to us Greeks since the mythical times of Odysseus. A Greek man leaves his native Greece, usually an island, jumps on a boat, and starts traveling the world......
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Helleniscope has an Easter present for you, a unique present just for you... The TV Series "From Farasa to Heaven", produced by the Athonite Foundation "St. Maximus the Greek" and Mega TV, has caused quite...
PHOTO: Samuel Gridley Howe
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Below, you can read the keynote address delivered by Lou Katsos, president of EMBCA, on March 27 at the Nassau County Legislative Chambers, which was packed. The speech was very well received...
SOURCE - COUNTERPUNCH.ORGThe black-dressed woman says the drama of Mesologgi unfolded while nature was blooming, its beauty overwhelming.
By Evaggelos Vallianatos Nature of freedom
It’s not clear what freedom has become in the twenty-first century. So many claim it, but so few...
By Nick Stamatakis
Before I start, I have to explain that the title in no way means that any of the two Turkish politicians will have any different policies towards Greece than any of their predecessors. Yet, Helleniscope follows in...
By Evaggelos Vallianatos (*)
For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval empire in the 11th century. In 1071, they defeated the Greeks in...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): As I watched this beautiful documentary about Manos Hadjidakis, it was hard to believe that such a productive, multi-faceted life could be contained in just 18 minutes! If you can understand Greek well enough, enjoy...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). This is a remarkable part of Greek History!!... You see, it is part of our culture not to establish "ghettos" as we migrate all over the world... Especially in Hellenistic times (the three centuries after...
