Author: ckoutsiviti
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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…