How the world sees Greece
Skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will get a view of the Lyrids meteor shower, the dusty trail of a comet with a centuries-long orbit around the sun. The Lyrid meteors streak across the sky between April 16 and April 25, but in the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Lyrid meteor shower reaches its peak. … The post Lyrid meteor shower: Thousands opportunities to make a wish appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Greece and its creditors appear to be one step closer to reaching a final agreement on the restructuring of the country’s huge debt pile, according to Eurogroup President Mario Centeno. In an interview with CNBC, Centeno said that although there are still a “few issues” regarding Greece’s public debt, European creditors, the International Monetary Fund … The post “Debt relief for Greece could be finalized soon,” says Eurogroup chief Centeno appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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(Makarezos, Pattakos, Papadopoulos). For the army colonels who overthrew the government and established a seven-year cruel dictatorship, April 21, 1967 was the day of the Revolution and the rebirth of the GREEK Nation. For most GREEKS though, it is a date they want to forget. For the people who were ...
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Incursions by Turkish military ships and jets into Greek territory have spiked and the potential for conflict is the greatest it has been in 20 years.
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Temple is the latest in a string of colleges to run into Greek life issues.
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The festival will host a number of different events and activities including GREEK entertainment, jewelry, traditional arts and crafts, and a tour of the Annunciation GREEK Orthodox Cathedral as well as the famous Drive-Thru. This is the chance to expand your cultural tastes and knowledge by joining the ...
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A nymph faces the joys and lonelinesses of independence in this feminist reworking of Greek myth from an Orange winner In her first novel, _The Song of Achilles_, Madeline Miller retold the siege of Troy from the point of view of Patroclus, whose death Achilles avenged by unleashing outsize destruction on Troy and especially on Hector, whose body he tied to his chariot and dragged around the city walls. Homer did not spell out the exact nature of a relationship that might trigger such a reaction; Miller made it a love story, tender and loyal, and by clearly showing what Achilles’ hubris would cost him gave it not only intimacy but the arc of true tragedy. _The Song of Achilles_ now exists in 23 languages and despite disapproving mutterings in some quarters – it had “the head of a young adult novel, the body of _The_ _Iliad_ and the hindquarters of Barbara Cartland”, according to the New York Times – won what was then still called the Orange prize. A striking aspect of _The Song of Achilles_ was the degree to which Miller was alive to gendered inequalities of power, describing how fighting men gathered when a well-born woman (Helen) came to puberty, and how Greek wars were fought: arrive, kill the men, take the women, parcel them out, tumble them on marsh-reed beds then require them to serve and feed the now entrenched army. This could be seen especially in her characterisation of Thetis, a young nymph given by the gods to the mortal Peleus. A kind man who would become a well-loved king, Peleus was nevertheless required, by those same gods, to overpower her; the rape resulted in Achilles, “best of the Greeks” – and made the nymph as chilly and harsh toward humans as the depths of the sea in which she lived. Continue reading...
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