Dean Kalimniou
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Metamorφosis with a phi, Greek Australian artistry in flux on the streets of Mebourne
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal’s body structure through cell growth …
William Lloyd and the liberation of Pontus
It is fair to say that sadly, even today, the region of Pontus exists on the margins of the Greek national and historical narrative. A remote land nestled between the …
Dark days of Disco-bolus
I am fascinated by the discobolus silhouette that adorns the façade of the Greek Centre in Melbourne’s CBD. Viewed from close up, the edifice appears to be populated by disparate …
Guarding the vulnerable from the Guardians
“I don’t know how this guardian was appointed,” Mrs Katina, who has an adult son with a disability, sobs. “I’ve been caring for my son ever since he was born. …
Intra Muros: The modern murals of our Greek heritage
Very little survives by way of ancient Greek murals. While many are described by the ancient traveller Pausanias, and while the art of the mural as pertains to Greece is …
Children of the Revolution: The lost childhoods of 1821
Yiannis Gounaris is, at least in the popular consciousness, an obscure figure of the Greek Revolution of 1821. Hailing from Ioannina, he was employed by Omer Vryoni as his official …
Righteous Muslims: Paying the price for 1821
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 The conventional narrative on the Greek Revolution is generally dualistic to the point …
Russian humanitarian aid during the Greek revolution
Ἤκουσα φωνῆς ἐρχομένης ἀπό τῆς ἄρκτου ἥτις ἔλεγεν οὕτω: ῾Ρωσία ἐξύπνησον οὖν ἐκ τοῦ ὕπνου… Agathangelos It matters not a bit that Theokleitos Polyeidis, the monk who composed a set …
‘My George Zangalis’, remembering the man who offered so much to his community
– Ω Κώτσιο, a gravelly voice would resound in my ears. Without turning around, I would invariably know who was calling me, and so I would respond: – Ω μπάρμπα …
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Dreaming that Greece might still be free
Last Wednesday, the 17 March, the City of Moreland, home to one of the most historically significant Greek communities in Melbourne, held a Greek Bicentennial Day Celebration and Flag Raising …