Month: June 2015
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Log in to Modern Greece
This page contains links to resources that may inform everyone interested in Greek topics about Greece. Most of them can be read in English or in Greek. These links are very useful for those who learn Modern Greek of any level and to researchers as well. Center for Neohellenic studies: http://www.snhell.gr/index.asp Centre for the Greek…
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Theatre: Θέατρο<θεώμαι=to see, θέα, θέαση=view
The art of theatre has been invented by the ancient Greeks in the area of Athens in the fifth century A.D. Greeks still love theatre and they frequent the innumerous theatrical scenes created mostly in big cities such as Athens and Thesaloniki. But every summer in all the places of Greece, in small villages, in…
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History: a Greek word meaning knowledge: Ιστορία, Ίστωρ=ο γνώστης
Here are some links for everyone who wants to learn about some historical events that influenced the creation of Modern Greek State. In this link you can watch a documentary of Maria Hliou about the catastrophe of Smyrna, a cosmopolitan city in Asia Minor with many Greek inhabitants in 1922, after the end of…
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Music: 4000 years of sounds
We have made a selection of the most notable works of our famous composers. In the links you may here a whole work. Manos Hadjidakis, An autobiographical note I was born on 23rd October, 1925, in Xanthi, that quaint old town and not the eyesore that was later developed by migrants from rural areas. The…
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A world of words
Written in the 9th century, here is an old traditional folk song which marks according to some researchers the beginning of the Modern Greek Literature: The Dead Brother’s Song Mother with your nine sons and with your only daughter, the precious the most beloved daughter. She was twelve years old and the sun had not…
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An homage to the Modern Greek Cinema – Some suggestions
1. Reconstruction (1970), “Anaparastasi” (original title) A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness. Costas Ghoussis, an emigrant recently returned to his native country, is coming back from the fields, a shovel on his shoulder. He pushes open…