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...
TO TRANSLATE, PLEASE USE THE FLAG AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN 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 Πρόλογος Σε μια διάλεξη της...
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...
By Helleniscope's Editorial Team If there is a concept in our times that explains what we are witnessing daily in our lives, from the intolerable behavior of politicians to the flashy behavior of "telepersonas" and those who mimic them in...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Having spent much of my professional life around sponge fishermen and divers through my business, I’ve developed a special affection for Sophia Loren, especially in her 1957 debut in Boy on a Dolphin. Not that...
IMAGE ABOVE: The sculptor Pygmalion falls in love with a statue he made, and Aphrodite brings the statue to life as the maiden Galateia... By Nick Stamatakis I was awestruck last night as I watched the fascinating interview by Natalie Morris...
source - sustack Freud and the Greeks: The Classical Roots of Western Psychology by Ben Shehadi Picture Freud in your head. Eccentric and obsessed with sexuality, the man’s appearance was every bit as iconic as his ideas. He had a fuzzy white...
Introduction (By Nick Stamatakis). I have said many times that you cannot truly understand the geopolitics of the Middle East, as well as geopolitics in general, if you have not watched the classic movie "Lawrence of Arabia". This is...
By Nick Stamatakis I grew up with "A Child Counts the Stars" by Menelaos Lountemis... His biography - aggregated here by A.I. - reflects the tragic history of Greece of the last 100 years: refugeeship, war against the Nazis, civil...