EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). I have often said that I grew up just two miles from the home of Giorgos Zambetas, in what he proudly called “Egaleo City.” The place itself carries an ancient name - Αιγάλεω - the name...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
By Helleniscope’s Editorial Team
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin stands as one of the most compelling literary voices of 19th-century Philhellenism—a poet who never set foot on Greek soil, yet whose imagination...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
By Helleniscope’s Editorial Team
In the heart of Jerusalem, where empires have risen, faiths have converged, and memory is carved into every stone, ancient tradition is not preserved… it is...
source - counterpunch.org
By Evaggelos Vallianatos Death of children in wars. Courtesy Evi Sarantea. Prologue
Starting with the Trojan Wat in the early thirteenth century BCE, the Greeks embarked on a gigantic Grexit that lasted for centuries. They migrated to other more prosperous...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
By Hellenisope’s Editorial Team
On April 6, 2026, Greece marked 85 years since the German invasion of 1941 not only with official memorial ceremonies, but also with protests outside the...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
OUR MAIN PHOTO: The house where Kapodistrias was born in Corfu. Unfortunately, no painting of Diamantina Gonemis has survived...
By Nick Stamatakis
The story of Diamantina Gonemis, the mother of Ioannis...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ
Greece then — and perhaps always - possessed a rare innocence: the only country on earth where you could ask someone, “What do you do?” and hear, without irony,...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Kapodistrias never accepted the idea of an"autonomous" Greece paying tribute to the Sultan. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1827-28, which turned out to be a disaster for the Turks who had come just 30 miles...
Του Νίκου Σταματάκη
Σήμερα, η Ελλάδα ξύπνησε πιο σιωπηλή.Η φωνή της Μαρινέλλας δεν χάθηκε απλώς·έγινε ανάμνηση που πονά και αγκαλιάζει μαζί.
Γεννήθηκε σαν τραγούδι που δεν ζητούσε άδεια να ακουστεί.Από τα πρώτα της βήματα, κουβαλούσε μέσα της μια θάλασσα—άλλοτε γαλήνια, άλλοτε...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). This is a very interesting article, presenting the case that: a) Beethoven’s values aligned with the goals of Greek revolutionaries, b) His work expressed the same spirit of liberation and national awakening and c) Therefore,...
