Sloane Elliott

Sloane Elliott was an American born Yale-educated novelist, playwright, essayist. Born in 1930 in New York City and permanently moved to Greece in the 1960's. In 1979, he bought the The Athenian title and operated as Chief Editor.

Slow burn

The heat had a great deal to do with it. On at least one day in August the cultural capital of Europe was the hottest capital in the world including Baghdad and Abu Dhabi.

Spring Campaign

The first of May has been described as the day when conservatives split up and go off to steal flowers from suburban gardens and leftists gather in town to make political speeches. This May promises to be different. Everyone will be listening to political speeches all month long.

Flight Number 110

Please fasten your seatbelts and extinguish all smoking materials. We may be experiencing an interval of turbulence: Greece is moving into a high-pressure election front.

Scenarios

Fad words, like fad fashions, have a way of arriving late here, though the outbreak of sidewalk break-dancing last summer shows that the time-warp is narrowing. Yet when these words or fashions appear, they are taken up with unbounded enthusiasm.

1985: The Festive Year

Just a year ago there was uneasi-ness in the air about the new year, led by the warnings of George Orwell and the prophesies of Nostradamus. The latter is popular among Athenians who lose heavily at cards during the holidays. It’s then they’re certain that Santorini will pop off again and Crete will land up on top of Mount Olympus.