Dear friends, I would like to highly commend the World Pontian Youth Coordinating Committee (PASEPON) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for organizing, with the support of the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and under the Auspices of the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO, the World Olympiad for Modern Greek and, at the same time, wish all participants best of luck. Ladies and Gentlemen, when Elytis published his ‘Axion Esti’ in 1959 he depicted the timeliness of the Greek language, from Homer to Byzantium and from there on to Solomos, in a poetic manner through ‘Greek the...
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