Antonis Tritsis: In Memoriam
A year after the death of the Mayor of Athens, Cultural Minister Dora Bakoyianni is making the Tritsis Plan for a city-wide park a reality.
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Bulgaria: The Good Neighbor
Once seen as Moscow’s most loyal satellite state, Bulgaria today is a struggling democracy wrestling with the staple problems of a struggling economy and the development of democratic institutions. A visit last month by The Athenian’s diplomatic correspondent reveals neither a bastion of anti-Geek feelings nor a hotbed of pro-Turkish Moslem fundamentalism, as often suspected in Athens. In fact, quite the contrary…
Alexandria Still
It may be the very lack of real ancient remains that contributes to the city’s occupying such a substantial place in the imagination. Even after the disappearance of the worlds of Cavafy and Durrell, Alexandria remains the most magically disorienting of cities.
Landscape Reconstruction
Computer imaging technology as applied to Athens is an attempt to uncover the living memory of the place and help restore its inhabitants sense of the past.
Foundation for Hellenic Culture
Parliament by unanimous resolution has brought into being an organization which seeks to upgrade the Greek presence and spread the ideals of Hellenism throughout the world.
Minoan Kydonia
Modern Hania, the Kydonia of classical times, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns on earth. This is the reason why excavations of its prehistory are so complicated and so tantalizing.
Catharsis
Decision-makers – that agreeable combination of sounds – are finally becoming aware of the fact that the environment can take no more vile treatment, for they see that we are ‘prisoners’ of the biosphere. Others consider their body to be their limit. It is indeed alienation that seems to have no limits.
Exploring Oases in the City
Mainly a child-and-parent’s guide to the parks of Athens not only for the young and the young at heart, but for grown-ups interested in some unfrequented corners in this city’s inexhaustible history.
Kidnapped in Macedonia
When Skopje recently abducted the Star of Vergina and attached it to its flag, it was in effect declaring for a Greater Slavic Macedonia.
Macedonian Imbroglio Continues
Even if Greek objections fail at the UN and other international forums, the feud between Athens and Skopje is likely to continue for a very long time. After a possible toughening of the Greek stand, it can only be settled on a bilateral level.
