EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). This video from 2022 has become viral, and there is a very good reason for it. It shows one of the greatest composers and maestros of modern Greek music, Stavros Xarhakos, teaching a bunch of...
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The beasts that the neighboring country glorifies as "brave warriors" slaughtered or killed 353,000 Greeks through exhausting marches and torture.
Editorial by "Dimokratia" Newspaper The Turks live in lands they have seized from peoples and tribes who lived there for millennia....
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Oxford University archaeology professor Juan de Lara has created a highly impressive three-dimensional digital representation of the Parthenon as it was in 432 BC , when it was built in honor of the goddess Athena, patroness of the city of...
PHOTO: Mosaic of Thucydides from Jerash, Jordan. Roman 3rd century. Public Domain.
By Evaggelos Vallianatos
Prologue
The Washington consensus about China mirrors the misleading reading of Thucydides. That is, both America and China operate under “the Thucydides Trap.” This is to say...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). 1989 was a special time for Greek politics and music: center-right wing politician Constantine Mitsotakis had approached Mikis Theodorakis of the Left and Harilaos Florakis of the Greek Communist Party and had allied to throw...
Both the Russian leaders (Stalin and Marshall Zukhov), the West (Churchill, Eisenhower), and the Germans (Hitler himself and Keitel) recognized that their delay in delaying the Greek Resistance caused in 1940-41 to the German plans to invade Russia was...
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...
