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To those who think that Greece does not matter today, let me say that they could not make a bigger mistake. Today, like old Greece, is of the utmost importance for anyone looking to find himself.
Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American author
(Generations of the gods – lesser deities – nymphs, etc.) The Greeks were not pagans, as they had been accused of in order to exterminate them. The Greek gods (six gods –six goddesses) were ideas, while others were ancient kings who, because they benefited the world, were...
The second era begins after the fall of the Atlanteans and the dominance of the Greeks in the Mediterranean area for the second time, according to the accounts of Aeschylus, Plato and other classical writers. This was followed by the Flood of Deucalion (+/- 14.000 B.C.). In...
Strange title, but true and essential. Terrorism in Greece is a product of the post-coup period. They had to make the change here too. That is, to transform the security and order of the junta into violence, terror, murder and provocations, in order to...
The Muses in Greek tradition (their name comes from "mao or mosis (desire) or omou ouses) took their name from Pierus, as Herodotus mentions. They were born from the gods in ancient times and were guardians of Knowledge in the Museums (libraries and...
Forward, let's destroy the Environment, all with excessive zeal. Let's punish ourselves and others, let's imitate the powerful and great, with our ally Charos. Great Herostratus the artificial intelligence, which they say will become a Gargantuan of energy, as...
The first king of Egypt was Hephaestus, then Helios and then Cronus. He married his sister Rhea and gave birth to Osiris and Isis. Osiris-Dionysus and his wife Isis built the city of Hecatombylon and gave it the surname of their mother...
One murder? Everyone in. Two murders? No one guilty. Well done, Lady Justice, with the blindfold and the scales crooked. Two meters, two weights, and the right one hanging in the air. One decision - green light. And chaos outside at the borders. Yesterday hundreds were coming, tomorrow they will come...
I. The silent decision No savior messiah will come Neither with a flag and a drumbeat, nor with big words. The exodus begins silently, within yourself. Close Kapodistrias in your heart as your idol. It begins the moment when...
The presence of the Greeks in Egypt is as old as their prehistory. And they were in such great numbers in antiquity that they outnumbered even the dark-skinned native Egyptians. The floods of the Nile buried all the settlements on the banks of the river and...
The spy is rarely born suddenly. He is gradually formed within a closed, rigid system that has long been unwilling to recognize the value of those who have served it. Betrayal does not always stem from a money-grubber; it is often the final outburst of a...
Immortal Dionysus, god of ecstasy, creator of masked festivals, you who soften souls, noisy, with "euoi-euan" and with voices, you give us joy with the festivals, you give entertainment to the pandemonium, opposite to Apollo's symmetry, and you at the symposia...
Our ancestors subordinated the "I" to the "we" and the rights of the individual to the rights of the whole, with the exception of Isonomy, Isogoria and Isopolitia which were the essence of democracy, that is, to the will of the many, without ignoring the...
"What would you say, Critobulus," said Socrates, "if I were to tell you from the beginning how I once associated with a man who seemed to me to be truly one of those to whom the epithet of "good and virtuous" is rightly bestowed? I would very much like to hear you talk about it...