Hellenism in Romania
Romania has always hosted an active and prosperous Greek community, one that has served as a bridge between Athens and Bucharest.
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Trekking Across Taygetus
Between Laconia and Outer Mani, Mount Taygetus displays its Pendadaktylo summit line, a roller-coaster of pinnacles and passes.
Hania: The Uneasy Presence of the Past
The old harbor at Hania with its slightly askew Turkish lighthouse, mole, mosque of the Janissaries, its magnificent Venetian arsenals and its still operative fishing fleet, together with the medieval maze of Old Town that faces onto it make up a living masterpiece of the Mediterranean heritage. Needless to say, the debate over its preservation and restoration is an important and heated one.
Kastellorizo: Outpost of Hellenism
On a speck of an island just off the south coast of Turkey an old shepherdess used to raise the Greek flag every morning, and now two Vietnamese brothers are the only bakers, attesting to the endurance of Hellenism and its genius for absorption
The Midas of Mycenae and Troy
At seven, a German parson’s son set himself a task: to unearth Homer’s Troy. He was 51 before the deed was done, and there are still those who question whether Hissarlik’s ramparts are Priam’s capital, but one thing is certain: wherever Schliemann went, he struck gold.
The Firedancers
Everything we had heard or read about the firedancers of Greece turned out to be wrong. We had been led to believe that the men and women who take part in the annual ceremony were a strange, even satanic lot, that the ceremony had its roots in pagan, Dionysian rites, that the dancers drank heavily for days and worked themselves into a frenzy in order to walk barefoot on the red-hot coals. Yet another source insisted that the whole thing was a fraud, a carnival show put on for money, a piece of flimflammery.
Women In Parliament
The ELEVEN women who are members of the Greek Parliament are a notably diverse group of individuals combining many roles and drawing from varied backgrounds and training. They include among their ranks lawyers, doctors, actresses and seasoned politicians,and they represent most of the major political parties, from the Right to the extreme Left. Despite differing philosophies and approaches, they express a deep awareness of social issues, of the needs of individuals, and the problems particular to women.
The Corfu Incident
Italian troops were already crossing the Albanian border when on the morning of October 28, 1940, Italy’s diplomatic representative in Athens delivered his government’s ultimatum that Greece capitulate. The Greek nation’s rejection of Mussolini’s ultimatum, an occasion annually observed on October 28 as a national holiday, did not find the country unprepared. It had been preceded by several provocative acts which forewarned the Greek government and eventually led, less than two decades later, to the Italian invasion of Greece. The first of these provocations was the 1923 bombardment and occupation of Corfu, an incident crucial not only to Greece but to world history, as it was the first test case of its type for the League of Nations.
Journeys in the Sudan
Five hundred miles southwest of Khartoum the savannah of the Sudan is interrupted by the Nuba Mountains, a scattered collection of inselbergs which rise, rock bound, to relieve the tedium of the acacia-covered plain. Kadugli, lying at the bottleneck of two great ranges is small, partly squalid, partly beautiful, and shaded by spreading trees (a welcome remnant of the colonial empire).
From Here to Delphi
Tourists coming to Greece for the first time often scurry from ruin to ruin lest they miss any.
