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In January 1919, an event took place in Constantinople that most Greeks are unaware of.
Four hundred sixty-six years after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, Hagia Sophia—which had served as a mosque since 1453—was, for a brief moment,...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Philosopher Ross Channing Reed argues that an ancient Greek virtue—sophrosyne, often translated as “sound-mindedness”—offers a valuable antidote to many of the challenges of the digital age. For the Greeks, sophrosyne encompassed moderation, self-knowledge, self-control, and...
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By Evaggelos Vallianatos Mikis Theodorakis in the Netherlands, 1972. Wikipedia Commons. Prologue
Mikis Theodorakis was an internationally recognized Greek symbol of resistance to capitalism and foreign influence in Greece. When I left Greece for the United States in 1961, he...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
OUR MAIN PHOTO: The inauguration of the Hellenic Cultural Center. From the left, you can see Mr. Kallimanopoulos (the shipowner), AB Iakovos, Bishop of Dafnousias Philippos, Nick Andriotis, the...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
Helen of Troy is the greatest symbol of beauty in literature precisely because Homer never describes her physical appearance; by leaving her undefined, he allows every generation and every...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
By Helleniscope’s Editorial Team
Archilochus of Paros (c. 680–630 BCE) is one of the earliest and most influential lyric poets of ancient Greece. Unlike Homer's epic poetry, Archilochus cultivated a...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). We should only add one crucial thought to the main idea of the main lesson of this video: When Kapodistrias finally arrived in Greece after 1827 as the first Governor of the - not yet...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
By Helleniscope’s Editorial Team
In the dark years of World War II, when Greece lay under brutal Axis occupation and Europe burned in conflict, a remarkable military unit was formed...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
By Helleniscope’s Editorial Team
The Genocide of the Pontic Greeks was a systematic, organized Turkish crime with a clear objective, and it was part of the violent “cleansing” of Anatolia...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
By Nick Stamatakis
I have a confession for all of you, Helleniscope's audience... Many years ago, I fell in love with Sicily... My love for history on the one side...
