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...
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...
