A good name for Greece
Returning recently from a conference in Berlin, opposition leader Constantine Mitsotakis warned that Greece’s international position has weakened and that it no longer inspires trust abroad.
Timeo Danaos
At about the same time as the trireme Olympias was being commissioned into to the Greek Navy, a meeting took place at an office in the Turkish defense ministry in Ankara.
The Cruise of the Beatnik – Part VII
THE time has come to review the events of the past few months in our continuing saga of the Freaks and the Jerks, the people of two beautiful countries separated by a shimmering blue sea.
Monkey business in the Aegean
The idea that Greeks are a simple, fun-loving, cicada-like folk singing “Never on a Sunday” and dancing on Aegean sands at all hours amid a welter of smashed plates, Doric columns and gyro-joints may have been an attractive image once but it is superficial and obsolete.
Son of the Microbophobe
You may remember the story of Taki the microbophobe who was so scared of germs and bugs that he lived a completely sterilized life in Athens until, fearing the pollution here, he moved to Switzerland, took a walk in the pure air of the Jura mountains, slipped on a cow pat, hit the back of his head on a rock and expired, uttering his final words, “the colobacilli got me in the end.”
A bit of sex between heat waves
It is ironic when the government is trying so hard to get its independent, multi-dimensional foreign policy heard in the international press that Athens only made the front pages this summer because of the temperature.
The Eighth Wonder of the World
When a navy ship called Poseidon dredged up a stone in the shape of a gigantic fist out of the harbor at Rhodes on July 3, it was not only antiquarians who hoped it might have some connection with the celebrated Colossus of Rhodes.
Overtime victory
When things are merely probable in Greece they usually don’t happen. But when the outcome appears impossible, the ethnic spirit is sometimes aroused and it is achieved.
Political salmonella
All agree that Greece is a fine place to live in so long as one’s in good health. But if one is stricken with anything more serious than a retsina hangover, received wisdom says get on the next plane for Zurich.
Murder Inc.
The Athens press can be rarely accused of finding itself at a loss for words or lacking in fanciful reportage, but the disclosure during Holy Week of a series of murders involving lethal injections, asphyxiations, stifled cries, nocturnal gravedigging, forged wills, falsified autopsies and lots of money had journalists racking their imaginations and ransacking their lexicons in order to give their readers just the plain facts.