La Belle Helene
GREEK archaeology, and particularly that of the Bronze Age has been one of the great popular romances of the last century, but its story, without the story of La Belle Helene, a small inn at Mycenae, cannot be quite complete.
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.
Ministries of Efficiency
JOHN KAPODISTRIA, a native of Corfu who held various positions in Russia including that of foreign affairs minister, became the first president of modern Greece in 1827. He was assassinated in 1831.
Operetta in Navarino
THERE is hardly a town in Greece that does not deck itself out once a year for a panigiriox for the anniversary of some local but historic event. Towns with seaside promenades always provide a congenial setting where a communal sense of pomp and play can be theatrically acted out.
The Congested Aegean
THE AEGEAN may or may not be a Greek lake, but the hesitant first appearance of the Turkish oil exploration ship Sismik into these waters in late July must have felt, to its unfortunate commander, like the novice driver’s first essay into the traffic of central Athens.
Damsels in Distress
WE HAD barely gotten used to the notion that the Caryatids were going to be replaced by plastic replicas when the Minister of Culture and Science, Constantine Trypanis, revealed that he had other plans in mind for the maidens.
Ye Gods and Big Fishes
EXCERPT from a telex received in June from a leading broker on the state of the shipping market: ‘Activity this week has been reduced as most of the brokers and buyers (Greek) are now attending the Posidonia Exhibition in Greece.’
An Untimely Death
THE LETTER Z is once again being scrawled in public places. Pronounced ‘zee’, as in American usage, it stands for the Greek word Zei which means, ‘He lives’.
Fallen Idols
A SHORT time ago Bishop Avgoustinos, our Good Shepherd of Florina, described, in his church-militant publication, Spathi, the most glaring example of godlessness that has lately offended his sight.
A Friend of Nature
KAITI Argyropoulou, who died suddenly on March 7, was one of our best known conservationists. The wife of the late ambassador, Alexandros Argyropoulos she was president of the Athens Society of the Friends of Trees, formed after World War II.
