The Island St. Paul Didn’t Write To
There may be no “Epistle to the Lesbians” but Mytilini, with its infinite variety, is something to write home about.
Coming up for air
It’s said the Greek people are easily bored by routine and become inat-tentive. But the moment something unexpected happens, they perk up and the adrenalin begins to flow.
Mount Athos: Where Heaven Rests on Earth’s Back
Personal reminiscences of a pilgrimage towards spiritual awakening through the monastic enclave sometimes called the Holy Garden of the Virgin.
Grabbing Greece Where it Lives: The Folk Art Museum
The seventy-year history of this very special institution is the heart-warming story of how a people who scorned their past came to love and respect it.
Lindos’ one-man historical society
Mihalis Mavrikos’ private collection of Dodecanesian memorabilia
of the 19th and early 20th centuries tells the story of a lost, but still valued, way of life.
Was Napoleon Greek?
The Greeks of Corsica always claimed Bonaparte was descended from the aristocratic Kalomeros family. Whatever his origins, however, the emperor was a philhellene: he was a close friend of’ Prince’Demetrios Comnenos.
The Wheel of Fortune
Even in the last half of the last year of the decade, and even though he lost last month’s elections, Andreas Papandreou continued to dominate the political life of Greece during the 1980s.
The Tower by the Sea
For sixty years the Tower of Prosforion at the entrance to the Holy Mountain was the home of Joice and Sydney Loch. In Greek ‘prosfora’ means offering. The lives of the Lochs were offerings made in the service of mankind and they are remembered by many as legends in our own time.
A Case for the Patriarchate
The patriarchate – and even the Patriarchy – are threatened by neglect and the dwindling ranks of Orthodox ‘Turks’, but the attention of statesmen and laypeople, and timely renovation, are reviving this diminished Christian citadel.
The Plunder of the Past
Greek marbles have enriched the great museums of London, Paris and Munich, but left a gaping hole in the Greek psyche… not to speak of the Parthenon.