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1821 Greek Revolutionaries’ call for justice on antiquities theft echoes today

Preamble: Konstantinos Gkioulekas, lawyer, journalist and New Democracy MP, and author of the Greek language book; The Chronicle of the Revolution Through the Newspapers of the Revolution, sent a letter …

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Gratitude and David Beckham

David Beckham’s most endearing feature is his profound gratitude. In the recent Netflix documentary Beckham (2023), we see his gratitude towards his father, Ted’s dedication, his wife Victoria Adams’s forbearance, …

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A land without leaders for peoples without a land

Many of you know me for my short articles on Bronze Age Greece (ca 3000-1200 BCE Minoans and Mycenaeans). What many of you may not know is that I’m also …

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Diatribe: Neobyzantine Christmas

Isidoros, known to the general populace as Izzy, is a Neo-Byzantine. What this means is that even though the last vestiges of Byzantine power fell in the fifteenth century, they …

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Spices, chickens, and misunderstandings: Comedic clash between Greek and French cultures

The end of a terrible year is around the corner. We need a respite to replenish reserves before 2024 and I am making a concerted effort not to monitor international …

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The NGV is provincial

Every year, politicians come to the Lonsdale Festival and acknowledge the pioneering role of Greek Australians in transforming Australian culture. There would be no Australian multiculturalism without the Jews and …

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Knowing when to stop thinking

In the first century of this common era, (CE or AD) Pliny the Elder began his encyclopaedic account of Natural History by noting that there were two ways to madness. …

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Diatribe: The Mehmed Marbles

Had Greece not been liberated, we may have been speaking today of the Mehmed Marbles, rather than the “Elgin” Marbles, a colonialist-imperialist term whose use by our national broadcaster, has …

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Asia Minor territories of Bithynia and Paphlagonia

Asia Minor was such an important battle ground in the history of the world, that many a king made a name for themselves on the battlefields in the region. Greek, …

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Pericles’ bust gives fanboy Boris Johnson advice on the Parthenon Marbles

The prime minister sat at his desk, rubbing his temples. He had a throbbing headache. It was just after 11pm. He willed himself to pick up the following briefing on …

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