Arts
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Greek Australian love flower adorns Frankston
A statue of the Agapanthus flower, designed by Emily Karanikolopoulou adorns one of the key routes into Frankston. The statue of the flower was unveiled close to the Eastlink Freeway …
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‘The Hour of Greece’, the impact of Ohi Day on American public opinion
The Hour of Greece is an exhibition organised by the Hellenic American University |Ηellenic American College and the Greek America Foundation, in collaboration with the General State Archives οf Greece …
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St Dimitrios feast day: Happy Name Day to Dimitris and Dimitra
Today is the feast day of St Dimitrios, and the name day of Greeks bearing the name Dimitrios, Demetrius, Dimitri, Jim, Jimmy, James, Mitsos, Mitch, Mimi, Dimitra, Demetra, Demetria, Dimi, Dimmy, …
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Heroes and winners: Greece in the World Wars depicted through artworks of the 10th Australian Hellenic Memorial Student Competition
Traditional textbook teachings of history fail to truly get students to feel the connection with the subject matter, to visualise it and value it in the way it deserves. There …
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Delphi Bank’s 26th Greek Film Festival is (almost) over, and Melbourne co-organiser remembers blasts from the past
For Delphi Bank 26th Greek Film Festival (GFF) co-chairman Leonidas Vlahakis, this year’s GFF was one of the best in his 19-year tenure as an organiser of the event – …
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Deciphering Ancient Greek inscriptions using Pythia
Epigraphy, the study of written matter recorded on hard or durable material, which – as a term – is derived from the Classical Greek epigraphein (“to write upon, incise”) and …
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Legendary run relived in ‘Road to Sparta’, a documentary focusing on four runners
Pheideppides ran more than the 42km from Marathon to Athens. Much more. The Father of History (or Lies, as some would have him), Herodotus, identified him as the herald or …
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Stamps of my past, brightly coloured images from Greece’s four millenia of history
Two years ago, we moved from Chicago to South Carolina. Moving is never easy. It is a loss of nerves, and in my case, pounds from work and stress, and …
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RIP Titika Nikiforaki, a great dame of Greek theatre dies at the age of 105
Titika Nikiforaki, died at the age of 105 years, on Saturday, 19 October. The actress first appeared on stage with the Greek National Theater in 1935, aged just 21 years. …
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Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Greek Revolution with Playmobil figurines
2020 marks the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with a proclamation of revolution against Ottoman rule in the Peloponnese on 17 March, 1821. To celebrate …