How the world sees Greece
WASHINGTON — Νicholas Stefanos “Steve” Vasilakes emigrated from Ligerea, Greece, to the United States in 1910 and soon thereafter set up his hot peanuts and […] The post Steve Vasilakes, the White House’s Peanut Man – WH Historical Association appeared first on The National Herald.
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IOANNINA – Almost 90 refugees on Friday moved into a renovated former home for children in the western Greece town of Ioannina after being transported […] The post Former Children’s Home Opens Doors to Refugee Families in Western Greece appeared first on The National Herald.
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The Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) completed a promotion of Kythira to Austrian journalists in the last few days, hoping to boost tourism to the […] The post Greek Tourism Organization Eyes Austrian Market Through the Promotion of Kythira appeared first on The National Herald.
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ATHENS – Greece and its creditors believe that reaching a comprehensive agreement at a Eurogroup meeting in May 22nd remained a goal, a European Commission […] The post Reaching a Comprehensive Agreement on Greece in May 22nd Remained a Goal, EU Official says appeared first on The National Herald.
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ATHENS – The welfare state in Greece has fallen very much behind during the crisis, New Democracy Vice President Adonis Georgiadis said on Friday, during […] The post Welfare state in Greece has fallen too much behind, says ND VP appeared first on The National Herald.
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Main opposition New Democracy (ND) president Kyriakos Mitsotakis took to the airwaves on Saturday morning to charge that his rival, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, has merely tried to extend his political mandate by agreeing to a new round of ...
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The arts are never far from politics in this collection of Harrison’s prose from the past half-century, edited by Edith Hall Thirty years ago in Greece a friend drove the poet and dramatist Tony Harrison to a village called Askri. It was a dump. Nearby was a stinking “vast, untended, smouldering pile of rubbish and old lorry tyres”. In the village itself, a local Boeotian man made a gesture that clearly meant “Why the hell have you come?” They had come, Harrison explained, because Askri was the birthplace of the ancient Boeotian poet Hesiod. After further conversation, one of the locals said they should check out the Valley of the Muses. To get there was hard going. Wearing sandals, the tourists were led up a steep track covered in thorns. Soon their feet were cut and bleeding, but they kept walking. Eventually they reached an overgrown amphitheatre. In this ancient “Mouseion” poetry festivals had been held in honour of the Muses. Standing right at the centre of this great circular theatre space, Harrison imagined what it would be like to read poetry there, and raised his eyes to where the very back row of the audience would have sat. As he did so, the poet’s hair stood on end. He realised that he was looking straight at Mount Helicon, the Muses’ sacred mountain, and that “the spectators on the ridge” would have been “none other than the Muses” themselves. For Harrison, this situation exemplified what poetry must do: have the courage to face up to the Muses directly, without apology or excuse. Continue reading...
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