#Papandreou

[pasoklron]

[dadsinsuits]

George Papandreou

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Comic Book Club: Claire Lordon, George Papandreou, And Nick Goode

On this week's live show podcast, we're welcoming guests Claire Lordon ("One in a Million"), George Papandreou ("Typical Campus"), and Nick Goode ("Sussex").

On this week’s live show podcast, we’re welcoming guests Claire Lordon (“One in a Million”), George Papandreou (“Typical Campus”), and Nick Goode (“Sussex”). SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Powered by RedCircle Claire Lordon Bio: Claire Lordon is an American-Canadian…

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Comic Book Club: Claire Lordon, George Papandreou, And Nick Goode

On this week's live show podcast, we're welcoming guests Claire Lordon ("One in a Million"), George Papandreou ("Typical Campus"), and Nick Goode ("Sussex").

On this week’s live show podcast, we’re welcoming guests Claire Lordon (“One in a Million”), George Papandreou (“Typical Campus”), and Nick Goode (“Sussex”). SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Powered by RedCircle Claire Lordon Bio: Claire Lordon is an American-Canadian…

[ronnydeschepper]

De peperbus van nonkel Miele (54): tussen geopolitiek en het volk

De vrijheid van de volkeren, en hun democratische toekomst, hangt onmiskenbaar af van de mate van soevereiniteit die de naties over hun toekomst hebben, in dialoog en door verdragen met andere volkeren. De belangrijkste parameters om het gehalte van volkssoevereiniteit te beoordelen zijn: de geopolitieke machtsverhoudingen en de interne machtsverhoudingen tussen de klassen in de naties. Continue…

[gemsofgreece]

This is no AI or photoshop... Arnold Schwarzenegger watching and then dancing with Greek Evzones, back in 1991.

BONUS POINT: Giorgos “Giorgakis” Papandreou, dancing there with Arnold in the second pic

[nachoaveragejoe234]

Monster High characters if their names were normal:

Claudine Leclerq (Clawdeen) - She's half Haitian in my headcanon

Francine "Frankie" Frankenstein - Frankie's name is fine

Laura Dracul (born Laura Aurelius) - Born in Roman Italy

Sheena Blair (Lagoona) - Couldn't think of a name that sounded similar to Lagoona

Cleo Mohammed

Giulia De Carlo - Ghoulia is Italian Canadian

Abigail Barandova (Abbey) - Of course I see her as Russian even if she technically isn't

Demitrios Argopolis (Deuce) - Gorgon isn't really a surname (I don't think)

Michelle Dubois (Rochelle) - I am now being informed Rochelle is a legit name, I'm sorry Frenchies

Tammy Harrington (Twyla) - I see her as a Tammy for some reason

Rebecca Raj (Robecca) - Indian British

Christine "Operetta" Daae II - Named after her mother

Jennifer Wong

Elizabeth Constsntinescu (Elissabat)

Vanessa McBride (Venus) - She's Scottish-American

Lorelei Schweiz (Toralei) - Her name, but less catty

Persephone and Melody Danielson - I don't know why Danielson, I just did

Jane Doolittle

Iris Diamantis

Lorna McAlester

Zainab Farooq (Gigi) - Wanted her to have an actually Arabic name

Betsy Claro

Sarah O'Shea

Serena Von Berg - She's German-American

Kjersti Kristoffson

Kiyomi Takahashi

Bonita Ford

Silvi MacDougall - She's super Scottish

Ariana "Ari" Huntington - Named after Ariana Grande

Monica de la Rosca (Moanica) - Latina

Mercedes King

Luna Mathews

Elle Edelman Devon = Edelman Devon, or E.D.

Honey Swann

Glory Mantel

Gilda Papandreou

Freyja Magnusdóttir (Kala) - She's Icelandic

Finnegan Ioannadis - He's actually Greek, believe it or not, not Irish, in G3 he seems to be a siren, so I went with Greek for him

Anisa Perbesi (Amanita) - Amanita is Indonesian

[punkunited]

Adiexodo (Greek: Αδιέξοδο; Greek for "Dead End") was a Greek punk band from Athens formed in 1983 by Dimitris Spyropoulos, Sotiris Theocharis, Stathis Papandreou, Thim Geo and Mimis Alimprantis. It was one of the first Greek punk bands

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Τα μεν γαρ άλλα δεύτερα αν πάσχη γυνή, ανδρός δ’ αμαρτάνουσα, αμαρτάνει βίου.* - Euripides *Other misfortunes are secondary for a woman, but if she loses her husband, she loses her life.

Queen Anne-Marie of Greece is the widow of the late King Constantine II of Greece, who reigned from 1964 until 1973. She was born Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark on 30 August 1946.

Anne-Marie is the youngest daughter of King Frederick IX of Denmark and his wife Ingrid of Sweden. She is the youngest sister of the reigning Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and cousin of the reigning King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

In 1961, she spent a year at an English boarding school in Switzerland - the Chatelard School for Girls. In 1963, to improve her French, Queen Anne-Marie attended a Swiss finishing school, 'Le Mesnil', until the Spring of 1964. She also speaks Greek, English and of course Danish.

Queen Anne-Marie first met King Constantine of Greece as a young girl in 1959, when he visited Copenhagen on a journey to Sweden and Norway, as Crown Prince, with his parents, King Paul I and Queen Frederica.

She met him again in Denmark in 1961. He had declared to his parents that he intended to marry her.

On 14 May, 1962, Crown Prince Constantine's elder sister, Princess Sophia, married the Spanish Prince Juan Carlos in a double ceremony in Athens at the Roman Catholic Cathedral and the Orthodox Cathedral.

More than 100 royal guests came to Athens, and Princess Anne-Marie was a bridesmaid. Queen Frederica of Greece recorded that, at the reception, her son Crown Prince Constantine 'would dance only with Anne-Marie'.

In 1963, centenary celebrations of the Greek Royal Family began with a State Visit from Princess Anne-Marie's parents, King Frederick and Queen Ingrid of Denmark.

In March 1964, King Paul I died after a short illness, and Constantine succeeded him to the Greek throne.

King Constantine came to the throne with much goodwill, which was expressed in abundance when, on 18 September 1964 (six months after his accession) he married his beautiful Danish Princess in what was described at the time, as 'the most radiant of Athenian royal weddings'. Even an old republican, the 76 year old Prime Minister, George Papandreou, was seen to be enjoying himself thoroughly with the bride and bridegroom.

Queen Anne-Marie devoted much of her time as Queen of Greece to 'Her Majesty's Fund'. This was a charitable foundation started by her mother-in-law, Queen Frederica. It helped people in rural areas of Greece and supported crafts such as embroidery and weaving. She also worked closely with the Red Cross, and various charities.

On 21 April, 1967, political problems in Athens intensified with the Colonel's coup. A month later, Queen Anne-Marie gave birth to Crown Prince Pavlos at the family's country estate, Tatoi.

In December, after his attempt to restore democracy failed, King Constantine and his family left Greece from Kavalla for Rome. With the King, the Queen and the two children were King Constantine's mother, Queen Frederica and his younger sister Princess Irene. They landed at a military airport in Italy because they were running out of fuel.

Queen Anne-Marie and her family stayed first at the Greek Embassy in Rome for 2 months and then took a house at Olgiata on the outskirts of the city.

Later in 1968, they moved to 13, Via di Porta Latina - where they lived until 1973. On 1 October 1969, Queen Anne-Marie gave birth to Prince Nikolaos in the Villa Claudia Clinic near her home in Rome.

In 1974, Queen Anne-Marie moved with King Constantine to England, after a brief stay with her mother in Denmark. King Constantine had been officially deposed by the military Government on 1 June 1973 and a Republic declared by colonel Papadopoulos.

The family's first home was in Chobham in Surrey. Then they moved to a house in Hampstead in North London, where they have lived ever since. Queen Anne-Marie calls it her 'Home away from home'.

Queen Anne-Marie's family grew larger with the birth of Princess Theodora at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, in London on 9 June 1983, and Prince Philippos on 26 April 1986.

Queen Anne-Marie helped to start this remarkable bilingual educational initiative in 1980. She is now Honorary Chairman of the school, and devotes a lot of her time to it.

Her first visit to Greece since she left with her family in 1967, was for a few hours, for the funeral of King Constantine's mother, Queen Frederica, in 1981.

Queen Frederica died suddenly in Madrid. Her wish had been to be buried beside her husband, King Paul, at the family estate at Tatoi. The family was given permission to attend - but could not spend a night in their country. They landed at a little airfield near Tatoi, and were welcomed by large crowds. It was, for Queen Anne-Marie and her family, a moving and sad occasion.

She visited Greece again with King Constantine and her family on a private visit by sea in 1993. They went, 'Not knowing what to expect. Wherever we went, people came out to greet us. It was extraordinary and very moving'. It was the first visit for her younger children.

In 2013, The Greek government allowed the ex-monarch to come back to Greece. Constantine returned to reside in Greece. He and his wife Anne-Marie purchased a villa in Porto Cheli, Peloponnese, residing there until they relocated to Athens in the spring of 2022

Wherever they were in the world, Queen Anne-Marie was a constant source of support and stability not just for her exiled husband but also their five children. She made sure that the family spoke Greek at home with all her children learning to be fluent.

She was the one also the family retained close links with all the royal families of Europe - and particularly with the British, Spanish and Danish Royal Families.

Queen Anne-Marie's father, King Frederik IX of Denmark was an accomplished musician and she has inherited his love of classical music - Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikowsky, Wagner. She has always been fascinated by historical biographies.

She had been, above all, the greatest support to her husband over many years of change. They had been happily married for 58 years until the King Constantine II died on 10th January 2023. She remains the last Queen of Greece.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Do you remember the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974?  I didn’t remember much about it either, except for a vague recollection that there had been a military coup just before elections were scheduled to be held in May of that year.  The elections were predicted to be won by Georgios Papandreou’s Center Union, a leftist party that had won elections in 1963 and 1964, the second by a large majority.  The right wing in Greece was rattled by the probable election of Papandreou in1967.  They were even more alarmed that his son, Andreas, who was even further to the left than his father, would have a role in a new government, so a group of generals and colonels pulled off a coup just before the elections to keep Papandreou from winning.

They ran tanks into downtown Athens, creating mass confusion and fear, and dispatched military units around the country to arrest Center Union politicians, intellectuals supporting Papandreou, the acting Prime Minister, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, and ordinary citizens who were suspected of leftist sympathies.  The coup suspended most of the Greek Constitution, making possible arbitrary arrests and prosecutions without warrants or formal charges.  Georgios Papandreou was arrested at his home in a nighttime raid.  His son Andreas was chased from his bedroom by soldiers armed with machine guns and rifles with fixed bayonets.  He was caught on the roof of his house and surrendered when one of the soldiers held a gun to the head of his 14-year-old son, George Papandreou (who would later serve as prime minister from 2009 to 2011).

There was a military coup in Cyprus in 1974, a failed military coup in Greece in 1975, a failed military coup in Spain in 1981, and martial law was imposed in Poland to put down the Solidarity movement, also in 1981.

I remember sitting here comfortably in the United States, watching all of this happen overseas from the house I had just bought on North Haven Island out in the Hamptons.  In this country, a new conservative government led by Ronald Reagan had just been elected, and although Democrats were disappointed, there were no protests in the streets.  President Carter and his wife Rosalyn met the Reagans under the White House portico and welcomed them into the White House on Jan. 20, 1981, and as outgoing presidents had done before them, attended Reagan’s inauguration that day at the Capitol.

Later in the 1980’s I met an extremely wealthy woman from one of the leading countries in Europe.  Her family owned a huge company that manufactured things you have probably used every day in your life.  She had enough money to buy herself an island and get away from it all, if she became unhappy with the politics and behavior of her own country, which had been conquered by Hitler in World War II.  Some of her own countrymen had been collaborators with the Nazi occupiers. Having watched coups in Europe and occasional political unrest in her own country, she did not trust that all would continue to be well in Europe, so where did she turn, and what did she do?  She traveled to the United States each time she was pregnant and had her babies here, so that they would always have American citizenship as well as citizenship in their own country.  She wanted her children to have what we have.

We didn’t have the danger of military coups and rule by junta.  Our democracy was healthy.  Our government was stable, with our three branches – the Executive, the Congress, and the Judiciary – going to work every day and doing their jobs, reliably if not always agreeably. Our two major political parties differed over issues, politicians occasionally got nasty with each other rhetorically, but we hadn’t had a real upheaval in this country since Richard Nixon was forced out by threat of impeachment over crimes he committed in office.  Our elections were a model for the world.  U.S. observers were asked by other countries to monitor their elections and help make them “free and fair,” as it was often said.

Our economy was the best in the world.  Money came from all over the globe to invest in our stock market.  Foreign auto manufacturers imitated U.S. companies and built cars to compete on an equal basis for sales in this country.  The United Nations sat on the East River in Manhattan where attempts to settle international disputes without going to war were made every day.  Foreign nations maintained embassies in Washington D.C. and U.N. missions in New York City.  Our universities, major and minor both, received thousands of applications for admission from foreign students who wanted to come here to be educated so they could go home and be able to compete in the international marketplace of money and politics and ideas.  Many foreign graduates chose to stay here and enrich our universities, cities, businesses and our politics.

This was American exceptionalism – in the words of Ronald Reagan in his farewell address from the Oval Office to the American people, we were a “shining city on a hill,” a beacon of stability and creativity and freedom to the rest of the world.

Who would say that of the United States of America today?  One of our two major political parties has not accepted the results of the last election and has ceased behaving like it is part of a democracy. It is making plans for a coup if the next election doesn’t go their way. Even if they win, their plans resemble a coup.  Remember the description of Greece in 1967?  If Donald Trump is elected in 2024, it won’t look like a win, it will look the installation of a dictator.  He has said he will invoke the Insurrection Act on “day one” and will use active duty soldiers to put down demonstrations in the streets.  He will use soldiers to enforce the law in any way he wants.  He has said he will “go after” President Biden and his entire family.  He will use the Department of Justice not to enforce the law but to bludgeon his opponents.  He has said he will demand an oath of loyalty to him from anyone who goes to work in the federal government.  He has promised to arrest and jail his political opponents. Using the Insurrection Act to suspend the Posse Comitatus Act, he will use the military to carry out arrests and detentions.

We could see tanks on street corners in Washington D.C. as the Greeks saw them in Athens in 1967, and that is if Trump wins.  The Heritage Foundation has come up with a document with plans for a Trump administration that reads like a coup-in-place.  His henchman Stephen Miller has said a Trump administration will round up tens of millions of immigrants and put them in what amount to concentration camps pending deportation under rules that suspend the normal process involved if a person is to be expelled from the United States.  Spokesmen for Trump have even promised to separate children from their mothers at the border again, and presumably as part of their roundup of immigrants. 

We won’t be a nation of laws.  We will be a nation with armed soldiers in the streets and razor-wire camps waiting to imprison anyone who opposes Donald Trump.

That is what our new American exceptionalism will look like.  The beacon on our shining city will be a red light:  Stop.  Stop using the word “gay.”  Stop the right to control your own healthcare if you are a woman.  Stop the study of American history that talks about slavery and Reconstruction and Jim Crow.  Stop the free marketplace of ideas.  Stop voting rights.  Stop free and fair elections.  

The Donald Trump plan to Make America Great Again will end our democracy and replace it with a fascist state.

[pasoklron]

This poem is a bit different. This is a Latin epigram written by my American friend, Ιουστίνος.

[elladastinkardiamou]

This week's newsletter from AthensLive is out:

* Greeks took it to the streets for Palestine

* The third oldest church was bombed, civilians sheltering civilians

* Athens has a new mayor - and this was not the only surprising election result

The Greek government supports Israel, new SYRIZA leader Kasselakis makes a school essay-style statement on the conflict, Greek people take the streets in support of Palestine, and we remember when back in the 80s, emblematic PASOK leader Papandreou aided emblematic Palestinian leader Arafat (then called a “terrorist”) enraging the West.

They were far more outraged by Hamas’s attack on Israel than by the IDF bombing of a historic Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza with some 400 civilians sheltering inside. At least, that’s what we understood by all relevant statements of the Greek government.

Athens has a new mayor - and this time, it is not a PM's nephew. 

It cannot be recommended strongly enough to read and share this week's updates on the events and developments in Greece here: https://steadyhq.com/en/athenslivegr/posts/3a2b753e-197d-4052-9055-9be7228074a6

For anyone with a wish or need to follow and to gain an insight into recent events in Greece and to read and support independent and investigative journalism in English, the weekly newsletter from AthensLive should be a core element in the reading flow.

If you want the best overview of the events and developments in Greece right now, this is the place to go. Not the mainstream Greek news, but independent journalism with sharp analysis and links to interesting and important topics from a variety of sources.

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[cypr24]

Na Cypr dotarły helikoptery gaśnicze

Jordania wypożyczyła dwa helikoptery gaśnicze wraz z załogami – są już gotowe do akcji Ministerstwo rolnictwa poinformowało, że na Cypr przybyły z Jordanii dwa helikoptery strażackie i łącznie 18 członków załogi, aby zwiększyć zdolności Cypru do gaszenia pożarów przed latem. Załogi zostały powitane w poniedziałek w bazie lotniczej Andreasa Papandreou w Pafos przez minister rolnictwa Marię…

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.26 (before 1950)

1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. 1478 – The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral. 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown). 1607 – The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry. 1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. 1777 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rode 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces 1794 – Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France. 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist. 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia. 1900 – Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home. 1903 – Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded 1915 – World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers. 1916 – Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge. 1920 – Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match. 1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring. 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe. 1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead. 1943 – The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden. 1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. 1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. 1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army liberate Baguio as they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

[musispoedmacarsiv]

6 Mart 2024 Peristeri Bwin Pınar Karşıyaka Maçı

*Andreas Papandreou Peristeri Kapalı Salonu'nda saat 20:30'da başlayacak olan Basketbol Şampiyonlar Ligi Son 16 Turu K Grubu dördüncü maçı. 1 aylık aranın ardından bıraktığımız yerden devam ediyoruz. 7 Şubat'ta evimizde 93-88 yendiğimiz Yunan ekibine konuk olacağız bu kez. Bir zafer daha gelsin ve ilk iki için iddiamızı güçlendirelim. Yürek dolusu başarılar Karşıyaka'ya.

*Tivibu Spor 1'den naklen yayınlanacak olan maç.

*İlk çeyrek sonucu 20-19 Yunan ekibi lehine. İyi başlayan taraf onlardı. 12-4'ü gördüler tabelada. Karşıyaka ise 14-8'in ardından 11 sayılık harika seri yakaladı. 5 sayılık avantaj cebimizdeydi ki Peristeri 6 sayılık seriyle çeyreği noktaladı. Biraz daha dikkat edelim gerisi kolay.

*Devreyi 39-33'le kapattık. 20-13'lük iyi bir çeyrek oyunu geldi temsilcimizden. Yakın geçen bir oyun vardı. Peristeri 33-28 yapmıştı ama bölümü 11 sayılık seriyle bitirdik. Şahane oynadık son anları. Şimdi mesafeyi açmaya bakacağız. Haydi!

*Üçüncü periyodun bitimiyle 50-49 öndeyiz. Peristeri'den 16-11 gibi bir oyun geldi bu periyotta. Periyodun ortasında iyi bir seri yakaladılar ve onlara hayat verdi adeta. Dikkatler dağılınca üretkenlik de kayboluyor. Son dilimde buna önem vermeliyiz.

*Olmadı. 76-73 yenildik. 3. mağlubiyetimiz geldi ve son 2 maç öncesi işler zorlaştı bizim için. Fena götürmüyorduk gerçekten. Birden bıçak gibi kesildi periyot. 61-59'dan sonra Peristeri rüzgarı yakalayıp döndü ve bir daha toparlayamadık. Son anlara doğru 1 sayıya indirdik ama ötesi gelmedi. 2 maç kala ilk ikiyle aramızdaki fark 2 galibiyet oldu. Bu da en iyi averaj hesabı demek. Yazık oldu gerçekten. Peristeri Bwin'de Kenny Williams 23, Joe Ragland 19 sayı gönderdi. Pınar Karşıyaka'da ise Vitto Brown 19, Jaylon Brown 15 sayı ile oynadı.

[gemsofgreece]

im looking forward to studying Modern Greek language and culture at university, and simply love your blog. i have fallen in love with this mysterious beauty! which parts of Greek culture, whether it be literature, art, history, schools of thought, anything at all, would you recommend me to look at in further depth? something less talked about, or more niche perhaps? much love x

Ohhh wishing you the best in your future studies! Hoping you will have a great time!

Some recs of things I personally enjoy from the Modern Greek culture, they are subjective, I have mentioned most before, so I am technically playing the broken record again!

Entechno, Rembetiko and classic Laiko music genres. Check the composers Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hatzidakis, Markos Vamvakaris, Vassilis Tsitsanis and Stavros Xarhakos as a start. But I doubt you won’t learn about them through your studies anyway.

Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) is my favourite artist but a lot of modern(er) Greek art is very interesting actually

Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis in literature

Erotokritos, both the poetry and the music and all its folk impact

Odysseus Elytis, Giannis Ritsos, Constantine Cavafy and Nikos Kavvadias poetry

I can’t not say the Greek Revolution but I doubt you can escape it in your studies anyway. Also the Axis Occupation Resistance, the Pontic Greek genocide and the population exchange with Turkey. But you will learn about all this, I believe. Check also about the civil war, which I am not sure they will teach you about at length. And the military junta.

Ioannis Kapodistrias and Eleftherios Venizelos as political profile studies. Check out those of Konstantinos Karamanlis and Andreas Papandreou as well if you are interested in politics, not because they were anywhere near as great as the former two but to explore the unbelievable impact they still have in Greek society.

Doesn’t matter if you are Christian or not, I really like Byzantine ecclesiastical music and architecture from an aesthetical standpoint so I recommend

Byzantine and Modern Greek folk fashion

Check out Georgios Gemistus Plethon, the Byzantine Greek Neoplatonic philosopher

Would I deviate if I just said Byzantine history? Oh well. It’s fascinating to explore the “relics” of Byzantium in the collective Modern Greek conscience.

Easter and Carnival traditions, their origins, historical evolution and practice today

Golden age cinema comedies (50s - 70s)

Watch the Island once you can understand Greek well (if you don’t already) or find English subtitles. It’s such a perfect and accurate window to Greek ethos in the first decades of the 20th century

Watch TV comedies of the 90s and 00s.

That might be harder to explore but I like the significance of Epitheórisi (Revue) as a theatrical genre in Greece. In general, check the tradition and huge presence of satire and satire comedians in Modern Greek society. Political correctness has made satire shrink drastically but I think it has an interesting history throughout the 20th century and first years of the 21st.

If you are interested in a school of thought, check out the work of the philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997)

If you don’t speak Greek yet, some of the recs are more niche than others and you will probably have to wait to be somewhat fluent in Greek before you can explore them properly. But music, art, philosophy… you can start with these. As for the history, you can also start, but make sure to also read Greek historiography once you know Greek better because… well.