Some things never change! Two hundred years ago, in 1828, Patriarch Agathangelos sent a committee of four Metropolitans to ask Governor Kapoditrias to quit fighting and to submit again to the Ottoman Sultan!! The Governor rejected the letter... A...
Growing up in Kokkinia, you were a refugee regardless of your origin
EDITOR'S NOTE: I wrote this short essay in 2013 in remembrance of Kokkinia, the neighborhood in Piraeus where I spent my first 24 years before immigrating to New...
By Nick Stamatakis
With profound sorrow, we announce the passing of Captain Stelios Tatsis, a proud son of Chios, who departed this life at the age of 86. He passed away at the renowned Papanikolaou Hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece, after...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). I will need a whole book to narrate my multiple connections to Karpathos, through family and research, and in many other ways... My mother and my paternal granmother were born there, I spent many youthful...
By Helleniscope's Editorial Team
Nothing symbolizes our Hellenic identity better than Mikis Theodorakis’s efforts to bring together the Israelis and Palestinians. Hellenism was never about “hegemony” or “exceptionalism”—it has always been about culture, dialogue, and peace. Mikis embodied this spirit...
Του Νίκου Σταματάκη
Κρατώ στα χέρια μου εδώ και μέρες την ποιητική συλλογή του Κώστα Κατέχη "Η Κραυγή των Κιόνων" και τη μεταχειρίζομαι άλλοτε ως τονωτικό ρόφημα και άλλοτε ως μεθυστικό ποτό... Οποια σελίδα κι ανοίξεις νοιώθεις την ευωδία της...
PHOTO: Beautiful Minoan women from a fresco in the palace of Knossos, Crete.
source - counterpunch.org
By Evaggelos Vallianatos
The Bronze Age
The Cycladic, the Minoan, and the Mycenaean cultures define the Bronze Age of Greece, 3,100-1,000 BCE. This was a period of...
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Του Εὐάγγελου Βαλλιανᾶτου Ελληνίδα χορεύτρια Μινωικής εποχής, Ανάκτορον Κνωσού, 1600 - 1450 Πριν από την Εποχής μας (ΠΑΕ). Wolfgang Sauber. Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Ηρακλείου Κρήτης. Wikipedia Commons
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by Dr. Olga Tsoka
«Τίνος ίσι συ?»
As is the case with every living language, Greek—spoken by millions of people across the Greek-speaking world—exhibits variation in its use, even among native speakers. These differences, which may range in scope from minor...
With Gust Avrakotos, British Complicity, and the Shadow of Israel
By Nick Stamatakis
In this short article, I tried to encapsulate my accumulated knowledge of the 1974 events, as I had the chance to study them in many years of academic...
