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The National Hellenic Museum to hold Annual Gala – “Connecting Generations”
CHICAGO (March 30, 2018) – The National Hellenic Museum (NHM) will hold its Annual Gala “Connecting Generations” Saturday, May 12, at the Chicago Marriott Downtown...
Evangelos Marinakis Receives Special Honor at Pan-Hellenic Festival of Pontian Greek Dances
PIRAEUS, 8 December—Evangelos Marinakis, the owner of Olympiacos FC and a leading Greek ship owner, has received a special honor recognizing his contribution to...
Greek Studies Professor Michael Cosmopoulos inducted to the Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada became the latest group to recognize University of Missouri–St. Louis Professor Michael Cosmopoulos for more than 30 years of...
On the Road in Greece: Museum of Asian Art of Corfu
By Catherine Tsounis
Understanding and cooperation between Asia and Europe in 2017 is furthered by an unlikely country. Greece has the finest Asian museum in...
AHEPA Commemorates Oxi Day; FDR’s Words About Greece’s Defiance Remembered
WASHINGTON, DC - Supreme President Carl R. Hollister issued the following statement on the 77th anniversary of "Oxi Day" when Greece issued a defiant "No"...
Macedonian Front 1917: the marble fields of Greece
Three kingdoms bordering what would become the Macedonian Front were players in a grand game of thrones. The chess pieces were a generation of young men.
Meteora: Climbing the Monasteries of the Divine
Lili Bita
Cultural Correspondent
My Dear Friends and Readers,
Greetings! The end of September is here, and the suitcases from Greece are stowed in the basement, waiting...
OLD KARDAMYLI, THE KAPATANIO AND THE MARCH THAT SPARKED THE 1821 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
BY AURELIA
Edited by: Mariekaty Athanasea Georgota,
Resident of Kardamyli and Fulbright Scholar
Kardamyli, a small Village with a claim to being over 3,000 years old and...
A Modern Odyssey: Kostas Myrsiades’ Drinking from the Blood Pit
Lili Bita, Cultural Affairs Correspondent
Special to the Hellenic News of America
My Dear Readers and Friends,
Today I would like to present to you a remarkable...
On the Road in Greece: A Stay in Metsovo
By Catherine Tsounis
“We cannot get hotels in Ioannina for our entire group,” said Kostoula Kapogiannis, group leader of the Kapogiannis Tours three-day excursion to...
On the Road in Greece: Greek Colonies Legacy in Delphi
By Catherine Tsounis
“The rulers of Syracuse built a treasury house in Delphi to commemorate their victory,” said guide Antony Fragopoulos, of our Classic Greece...
On the Road in Greece: Archaeological Museum of Tinos
By Catherine Tsounis
The Sicilian Regional Gallery and Archaeological Museum in Palermo contains masterpieces of the Greek Colonies. On the ground level Selinunte Hall, small...
Poetry – a lever for the protection of bios Lesbos – world center for the “bio-assessment” of poetry Prof....
Prof. Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis
President and Founder, Biopolitics International Organization
A beacon of diachronic values
We live in a country of limitless horizontal potential empowered by deep...
The Society of Epirotes “Anagenesis” and the Ladies’ Auxiliary “Souliotisses and Heritage Museum Celebrate Unique Events
By: Catherine Tsounis, Special
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” — Thomas Jefferson,...
First-Ever Full-Scale, Period-Accurate Trojan Horse at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC
Dear Hellenic News of America Readers:
In 2015, the International Spy Museum visited Handshouse Studio in Massachusetts to explore the possibilities of a collaboration.
Rick and...