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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
The European Association of Professors Emeriti (EAPE), based in Athens, was founded in 2016, with the aim of utilising the knowledge and experience of retired professors from European universities. The objectives of EAPE's activities are to promote academic...
The resourceful planet leader launched an attack against Iran over its nuclear program a few days ago. President Trump hit Tehran again, violating the ceasefire, this time "friendly", as he stated, because the ceasefire remains! The resourceful...
These symbolic words are addressed by the 17-year-old to her parents, before taking her own life. And I think that this world is not... even for us! Who, I wonder, considers that today's living conditions are normal? We live in a toxic environment, in a state...
2026 will go down in history as the year of the return to the Moon. Academic Professor Emeritus of the National University of Athens Stamatis Krimizis is the Physics and Astronomy scientist who has been associated with NASA's greatest achievements and his continuous involvement and experience...
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Body of Emeritus Professors of the University of Athens are organizing the event in honor of the retired members of the Teaching and Research Staff (T.E.P.) of the Institution, year 2025, and the ceremony of announcing the...
Greek society demands explanations for the unjust loss of life in Tempi, as well as for the injustice caused by the agricultural subsidy scandal. Our daily lives have become so depressing, with events unprecedented in Greece and America,...
The Professor of Medicine believed that excellence is not the goal for success, but the daily effort and practice. The excellent person offers a valuable example to his fellow man. In the context of the Panhellenic Congress of the Athens Medical Society, the memory of...
The road to PASOK seems to be opening up, and citizens will certainly be concerned about the future of their country. But… for the sun to turn, a lot of work is needed! The recent PASOK congress gave signs of life and guarantees for a better course and…...
Greek society demands explanations for the unjust loss of life in Tempi, as well as for the injustice caused by the agricultural subsidy scandal. Our daily lives have become so depressing, with events unprecedented in Greece and America, that we will...
Teaching is a profession and this is also performed by university professors, whom the state currently pays very poorly, and when they retire, after even 40 years of service to the university, they are unable to live decently. The above saying...
Our era has literally escaped normality and all of us, helpless to react, wonder where we are going! Politicians disappoint us every day with their tolerance of injustice, which afflicts citizens, sometimes with their disregard for serious...
The great planet ruler, who started out as a peacemaker, seeking his Nobel Prize, should know that there is no Nobel Prize for... executioners! For days now, humanity has been watching the war declared by the vile duo of leaders Trump and Netanyahu against...
President Trump recently unveiled the new electronic warfare system that neutralized Venezuela's anti-aircraft systems during the operation to capture Nicolas Maduro. The US used this weapon system, Russian and Chinese...
So much has been written about the personality of the great Byzantium scholar Eleni Glykatzi – Arveler, who left life full of days, but also full of contribution to science and her homeland! I feel the need to dedicate a few humble lines of respect,...
Judges who do not speak up when fundamental principles of the state are violated are complicit. The proverb "Silence is golden" was used by many ancient writers, and Menander even focused on women: "Women in all the world...
It is obvious that in the global political reality, Europe can no longer passively follow the powerful and focus exclusively on its own well-being. The planet's ruler's estrus for the conquest of the whole world continued and culminated in Davos. The...
The "post-human" is already here, declared the Greek scientist, and man seems to be on the threshold of a radical mutation. The wise Heraclitus had predicted that a person's character shapes his future, his destiny. The word "daemon" in...
The initiative to establish a day dedicated to the Greek language began in 2014, inspired by Professor Yannis Korinthios. Finally, after years of struggle, we succeeded in establishing the day associated with our national poet Dionysios Solomos, as...
How will he react? Will he defend liberal democracy or renounce its code of values? The book On Freedom by Timothy Snyder, an American professor at Yale University and one of the most important scholars of...
On the third and...th(!) of January 2026, in a particularly warm and festive atmosphere, our University's New Year's cake cutting event took place, at the welcoming Toca cafe in our city. The place was packed with students,...
The "post-human" is already here, declared the Greek scientist, and man seems to be on the threshold of a radical mutation. The wise Heraclitus had predicted that a person's character shapes his future, his destiny. The word "daemon" in...
The vendettas in Crete lasted for many years and with many victims, and the case was closed after years. The phenomenon of vendetta is very ancient, passed down from generation to generation and has never been effectively addressed. Starting from antiquity,...
In contrast to these births, the birth of… parties is particularly flourishing in our country in an unprecedented political setting. Greece's serious demographic problem is now being analyzed by important research, but citizens also realize and observe that the...
Technology in our time is advancing by leaps and bounds, and the average citizen is left stunned by the achievements. ChatGPT, artificial intelligence, is striving to be able to solve all human problems, perhaps even… replace them, as is the case with...
This week's "Consultations" focus on a deeply Greek and timeless topic: the use of the Greek language. How do we learn Greek? How do we use it in everyday life? How much do we forget it — and how much, unwittingly, "we stray onto the sandy shores of...
The Association was founded in 1865, in a socio-political environment of particular interest to Greece, where a wind of creation was blowing. This year, the historic Parnassos Philological Association, whose name comes from the sacred mountain...
The recognition of a Palestinian state is essential, because the path to peace presupposes the existence of two states. War, the "violent teacher" as Thucydides characterizes it, has exceeded all humanitarian limits in Gaza. No one now disputes that...
In the Greek News FL newspaper, the Greek community newspaper in Florida, I read that the 11th International Summer University "Greek Language, Culture and Media" organized by the University of Ioannina and...
The proliferation of nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War era makes the nuclear balance more complex, uncertain and dangerous. The title of the articles by M. Karasarini, P. Economou, S. Riza and A. Platias "Nuclear balance on a razor's edge" gives the...
The School named "The World" was founded by Nikos Soukos in London in 1993 and was renamed in 1998 to the Ecumenical School of Free Speech (OSEL). The feeling that emerges today from the world around us is the lack of normality. People are suffering,...
The national baccalaureate is not just a different examination system, it honors high school education, and makes it easier for young people who wish to, but also have the necessary qualifications, to continue their studies at a higher education institution. In my article from this column,...
In the bleak scientific environment of America, Europe stands tall with the conviction that freedom of science and research is one of its strong points. People of Science and Art have always supported, from the Middle Ages to...
It is a fact that both the immigration and demographic problems have not occupied all governments from time to time as much as they should. However, from the present one, how can we expect it to deal with them, when it does not find time due to the successive scandals. The Greek...
As the war in Gaza and Ukraine continues mercilessly, a nuclear weapons fire has ignited between Iran and Israel, and their nuclear programs are causing global concern. We live in an era where technology is booming and its successes are reaching...
In a depressing international atmosphere, the people seem powerless to react, but their governments are also powerless to resist a self-proclaimed hero. Innocent children and civilians in Palestine are dying every day from hunger and thirst,...
Political parties should stay away from this national tragedy and it is unthinkable that their percentages are calculated daily based on their positions on the issue of Tempi. It is striking that throughout the long period of investigation and discussion...
The slogan "peace not war" must be understood before it is too late, and man's conquests must be made wisely, just as the wise man of antiquity advises. The blackout in Spain and Portugal highlighted the dependence of modern...
Such a national success required vision and continuous struggle, the course of which I have mentioned twice in this column. The Executive Board of UNESCO, following the initiative of the Permanent Representation of Greece to the Organization, and led by...
In the 21st century, the phenomenon of division has struck the Opposition as a whole. The fierce conflict, which largely determined the course of Greece for decades, first manifested itself with intensity in 1915 in the form of a disagreement between the...
The few lines that follow are dedicated as a small tribute to the memory of the passengers - victims of the tragic train collision in Tempe. International Women's Day (March 8), which is celebrated every year as a day of remembrance of the struggles for women's rights...
In Naples, where Greek Language Day has been celebrated for a decade, a major anniversary event is being held this year in collaboration with the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. February 9, the death anniversary of our national poet Dionysios Solomos, was declared by the Greek Parliament, the...
At the Philological Association PARNASSOS, under its auspices, and with great success, a commemorative event of the unforgettable Professor of Cardiology, Dimitris Kremastinos, was held, on the occasion of the publication of his book "Cardio-Teachings. Cardiovascular knowledge and advice...
In the turbulent Middle Ages between the 12th and 13th centuries, in contrast to the moral disorder and paralysis, rose a healthy and spirited society of wandering clergy and students with its own laws and its own way of life, the Goliardi. She was the...
October 28, 1940 evokes memories for those who lived through the events, and naturally evokes a national pulse and pride as well as a feeling of deep gratitude in all of us for the great fighters and heroes of our country, to whom we owe our freedom. OR...
France, which recently ran the risk of turning to the extreme right in its national elections, seems to have not yet balanced itself. Shortly before the start of the Games, chaos reigned on the country's rail network, and there was a bomb warning at an airport in...
I am not a film critic and I will not try to judge the work, but as an educator, I lived the young people during their studies for many, many years. I saw the other day the film by G. Lanthimos, which made Greece proud with its award. ...
Today, unfortunately, Europe is presented as an exclusively monetary Union, and not a political and cultural one as envisioned by its founders. The results of the recent European elections undoubtedly cause skepticism in all European countries...
Today, unfortunately, Europe is presented as an exclusively monetary Union, and not a political and cultural one as envisioned by its founders. The results of the recent European elections undoubtedly cause skepticism in all European countries...
"Being and seeming" is very charming as a literary motif but extremely incompatible with the progress of a country. The duality of the contradiction "being" and "appearing", which has preoccupied man since ancient times, also appears in our time. It is"...
"... we continue to focus on the effect of violence rather than its causes in order to intensify our efforts to eliminate it." "Everything says, never stays the same", which means, everything is fluid and nothing...
The Greek government has known since 2020 of Erdogan's decision to Islamize our cultural heritage. We all know that our country's policy towards Turkey is to maintain a relationship of understanding and mutual understanding with the aim of gradual...
Mentor was a figure of the Odyssey, friend of Odysseus, supporter and advisor of Telemachus. The goddess Athena also took the form of Mentor on many occasions. In this way, the word "mentor" also generally means the adviser and friend, who acts as...
PHILOLOGY ASSOCIATION PARNASSOS - Anniversary note International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8 every year. It is an internationally recognized official holiday, established by the United Nations in memory of the women who lost their lives in...
The evolution of Artificial Intelligence is undoubtedly the great revolution of our time, and it is proving to be faster than experts predicted. However, this development gives rise to serious concerns about the conditions and limits, which are required to avoid unpleasant...
In 9, February 2017th was declared by the Hellenic Parliament as World Day of the Greek Language. The date was combined with that of the death (February 9, 1857) of our national poet Dionysios Solomos. This Day was dedicated to the poet, who dedicated his life...
The exhibition with the title "In the name of humanity" and subtitle "American relief aid in Greece 18-1918" was inaugurated and runs until February 1929 at the American School of Classical Studies, in the wing "I. Makrygiannis", in Athens,...
I have given a lot of thought and thought to expressing my opinion on the much-discussed topic of same-sex marriage and procreation. I love the progress and especially of my country, but family traditions have taught me that marriage is coupling...
While the absurdity of the Russia-Ukraine war with Russia's unpredictable coup d'état continues to threaten world peace, the atrocities of the Hamas fighters with their invasion of Israel, and the cold-blooded slaughter of civilians!...
The pioneering visual artist Georgia Lale, who lives permanently in America, proud of her Greek origin, created and presented at the exhibition of the Consulate General of New York a Greek flag in a pink shade, made from the sheets...
The "First Time Left" had shown its arrogance from the beginning, during the presidency and prime ministership of Alexis Tsipras. Now, we have experienced its crescendo, but also unprecedented manifestations of our political life, a distortion of politics, expecting at the same time a new...
In the alginate period of the coronavirus, which we experience worldwide, and the obligatory use of the mask for protection, the famous modern Chinese writer Xi Chuan composed an "ode" dedicated to masks. At the end of this ode, he wrote characteristically ...
The Mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, very aptly pointed out the golden opportunity that the citizens had to understand the difference in the policies of the mayoral candidates with the telefight, which he proposed in his honor, and which undoubtedly succeeded in...
The first impressive event for the self-governing elections to date is the election to the position of the mayor of Athens of an unknown to the general public, but known and recognized in the scientific world, Professor Harry Doukas, who within a minimum...
While... "the world is burning" literally, comic-tragic scenes are unfolding in the Greek Parliament with the MPs of the Spartan party slaughtering each other. Is the choice of the name of this party symbolic? Of course they don't try...
In ancient Athens "municipality" meant the assembly of citizens as a sovereign political body, and then the administrative subdivision of ancient Attica, the largest municipality at the time. Today, we are not, of course, in the age of antiquity, but in a much more difficult one,...
Pandemic, austerity, fires, unexpected weather phenomena, and now... the new identity! Citizens, exhausted by their living conditions, wonder what the purpose of changing the type of identity is. Others react to the non-mention of religion, as the...
I was young and I was old... since the issue of private Universities began to trouble the governments of our country. Society has changed and matured, but the perception that these Universities will harm public education remains the same....
It is time now that those with a common mind ask themselves if they are thinking correctly, and if what is happening in our country, and not only, has anything to do with logic! The pandemic, of course, also affected our mental world, it strengthened individualism, but also distancing...
After its triumphant election, the government of N.D. is marching in a centrist policy with fellow travelers and executives of the modernizing PASOK in critical Ministries, and calls on all citizens, and those who did not vote for her, to embrace the measures she is taking...
In a village near Nafpaktos I have been spending my vacations for years, living in the wonderful nature the tranquility offered by the small friendly society. The sea and the mountain, harmoniously linked, rest the soul from the turmoil of the capital, and challenge the mind to think...
On the island of Rhodes, volunteers go through the flames to save their fellow human beings... and we in front of the television remain stunned, moved and proud of our Rhodesian compatriots! as a harien is a man, when a man is. The volunteers with the...
It is a common truth that we Greeks have a tendency to despise the laws, and this defect has weighed on us since the times of classical antiquity! I have previously referred to the issue from this column, and I am coming back, because the same phenomenon has...
The results of the second national elections confirmed the triumph of K. Mitsotakis, but at the same time spread fear because of the... hidden party of H. Kasidiaris. The originality of our country in the 2023 elections is unique. Sovereign government,...
The transformation of Hagia Sophia into an Islamic mosque in the most extreme and provocative way had upset the entire civilized world. On May 29, 2023, the anniversary of the fall of the city, Erdogan, who triumphed in Turkey's national elections, presents the...
Politicians, pollsters, journalists are trying to interpret the phenomenon of the unexpected, even for the ND, triumph. If a psychic predicted him, he would surely become famous! The same question prevailed in neighboring Turkey with Erdogan in...
Stella Priovolou, With the Corona virus as a companion. A... third attempt. "life is short, but art is long", Oceanos publications, Athens 2022, p. 152. Written by the poet, dramatist, translator and critic Dr. Konstantinos Bouras Every narrative is fiction. He...
Historical Novel, OKEANOS Publications, Athens 2022 At the Crossroads, Beyond the City, the heart beat and the mind of the Romans from the depths of the centuries beat. These Romans, who managed with their skills and financial genius to...
Psychological novel and the recent fifth book of Venetia Pitsiladis-Chuard entitled: "Insane relationships". A title that looks like a challenge and raises questions, it is not difficult, however, from the opening note of the author for the reader to solve the...
The "Subject Bank" for the Pan-Hellenic Examinations, which is used successfully around the world, in Greece, apart from its adventurous past, presented unexpected problems in this year's exams. The validity of the "Subject Bank" is not disputed,...
The transformation of Hagia Sophia into an Islamic mosque in the most extreme and provocative way had upset the entire civilized world. Today, May 29, 2023, the anniversary of the fall of the city, Erdogan, who triumphed in Turkey's national elections, presents the...
The "Society of Greek Literary Translators" in collaboration with the "Artemis & Costas Kyriazi" Foundation presented to the French Institute on May 12, 2023, an award for the translation of Latin literature, to the professor and president of the peer professors of EKPA STELLA...
It is a common truth that we Greeks have a tendency to despise the laws, and this defect has weighed on us since the times of classical antiquity! I have previously referred to the issue from this column, and I am coming back, because the same phenomenon has...
In our time, where society shows its most cruel and hateful face, Ioanna Lazarou's book "For you who left early" comes as a cry of despair but also an exhortation for a necessary fight against violence, abuse and trivialization of ...
I was young and grew old reading and discussing the necessary intersections for university education, which has been languishing for years. The problem, in my opinion, is that while all the acting education ministers have undoubtedly wanted and tried to find...
We live in these days unprecedented trials; weather phenomena, pandemic, economic collapse... and not without reason. We did not respect nature, and it takes revenge on us, we did not respect Man and moral values, we did not properly appreciate the goods of life, with...
We should misinterpret and not simply paraphrase the words of Odysseus Elytis about the Greek language, in order to approach the mentality of generations of Skopians who were nurtured with the belief in their Macedonian identity and false history,...
On the occasion of the Anniversary of the Journalistic Group Greek News and Radio FL, I am pleased to publicly express my appreciation for the work carried out by the creator and soul of this Group, dear Ioanna Lazarou. Having years ago the...
Via was, according to Greek Mythology, a deity, the personification of violence. Bia, Kratos and Nike are mentioned in Hesiod's "Theogony" as siblings. Violence, in its current sense, is the exercise of physical or other force or the use of threats in order to...
Professor Nestor Kourakis, a well-known emeritus professor at the Law School of the University of Athens and a full professor today at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, has been particularly interested in ancient Greek and Byzantine culture. In culture exactly ...
There is a lot of talk, and rightly so, about changing education programs at all levels. My intervention may seem utopian, but it may also be useful if we are trying to modernize. In the alginate conditions we experience due to the climatic ...
"Dimitris Kremastinos: The Dimitris of Medicine, Society, Politics" is the title of the book written by Apostolos Apostolidis, and which will be presented on Wednesday, May 4, at 19.00 in the Amphitheater of the American School of Classical Studies (Disabled ...
On Monday, April 11, at 19.00 pm, at the "Giannis Drakopoulos" Amphitheater, the National Kapodistrian University of Athens organizes a round table on "Greece in the face of the demographic and immigration problem". The debate is organized by the House ...
"Most people's call for peace, this (proves) is just a name, I do not go to all the cities to declare war, by nature. (Laws A626a) (The one, which the majority of people call PEACE, (seems to be) is only in terms of ...
I do not mean Athens by saying that we Greeks have a tendency to despise the laws. And unfortunately, this phenomenon characterizes the political life of the country over time, where very often and with great comfort laws are passed that then do not ...
In the painful period of the coronavirus pandemic that we are experiencing worldwide, and the mandatory use of masks for protection, the famous contemporary Chinese writer Shi Quan composed an "ode" dedicated to masks.
"MeToo" is an English expression, which was established... with the Greek translation, which I always look for, according to his advice: "me too" or "it happened to me too".
The Greek Revolution of 1821, with its heroic response to the Ottomans' conquering mania, is a milestone in the history of Europe.
"Teenagers' Perspective", the pioneering student theater group of the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution. Through research, the teenagers approached unseen aspects of the Revolution and dared to ask difficult questions, while at the same time raising serious concerns about the Teaching of History.
1821 is not only a valuable legacy of models of heroic behavior, during the Greek Revolution, for those to come, but also the starting point of the nation-state, the beginning of the history of the Greek state. In the ten years 1821-1830 the ...
From the Medea of Euripides and Seneca to the Medea of Dario Fo and Franca Rame This essay includes a comparative examination of the monologue of Daria Fo and Franca Rame and the tragedy of the same name by Euripides and Seneca. The Italian ...
Not One Day Above, Psychological novel is characterized by her latest book by the author Venice Pitsiladi-Swart psychologist, with studies in Journalism and Public and Social Relations, who for years deals with the study and analysis of ...
The Greek Revolution in 1821 with the heroic confrontation of the conquering fury of the Ottomans is a milestone in the history of Europe, and the hero general Makrygiannis is the unique personality of this struggle. The Historical and Ethnological Society ...
What does the name MAN mean? It means that he sees "as soon as" and observes carefully "resurrects". From this, then, comes the conclusion that of the beasts, only man was correctly named "man," that is, "he who examines what he has seen" (anatropa apopa). THE...
The demonic virus loved us very much, and it does not say to leave us, it remains in our lives and surely the road to the pandemic is still long; as the Italian writer and actor Eduardo de Filippo said "the night is not over yet, we have time for dawn ». THE...
The cosmogenic alginate events that humanity is experiencing due to biological warfare haunt the mind to find the cause and discover the cure for an unexpected and unexplained flare-up of Covid-19. The wisdom of our intellectual ancestors, no matter how ...