Matt Barrett has attempted the impossible: Read his Short History of Greece.

I clicked on the Alexander bit first, since I was in the mood for a bit of historical gossip considering all the “controversy” in recent months…I met various Greeks in Sydney who personalized the whole issue of Alexander’s cinematic sexuality in response to […]

So, the answer to Quiz #4 is Thomas Mann.
The Greek musician in question was:
Loris Margaritis (1884-1953) was a distinguished greek composer, musicologist, performer and music-educator. As an infant prodigy he played his own compositions in pianoforte at age of 9 in the Richard Wagner Concert Hall of the Munich Palace…Thomas Mann was present during […]

Sad news today.

Paul Hester ends it
He was so amazing on the stage. A riot. Funny, how the people who bring so much joy to others can, themselves, be so sad.

This is wrong, I know it is. But I can’t help it. Everyone is gizoogling and I had the wicked idea of Gizoogling the Cavafy poems I posted here the other day.
Sorry. This is wrong. But I can’t help it.
Translations thanks to Gizoogle
Monotony
One monotizzles day is followed
by anotha monotizzles identical day like […]

My cute friend Steve Kane sent me this book thingy, which he got from the gorgeous and talented Jai Claire.
His answers are right here.
And mine are here:
1. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, what book would you like to be?
Ulysses by James Joyce. I want to be misunderstood but great!
2. Have you ever had […]

Another quiz borrowed from Ta Nea.
Which German author attended a piano concert in Munich (around 1893) to see a Greek child perform and what story did he write about the event?

From an article by Tilottama Rajan printed in the lit, history and philosophy of history journal CLIO (Winter 2004)….
A fragment from Hegel (1803):
“It belongs to the highest cultural development of the people to say everything in their own language. The concepts that we mark with foreign words seem to be themselves foreign and not to […]

Some websites belonging to Greek authors:
[I’m quoting from the websites themselves]
1. Nikos Dimou
“Born 1935, Athens, Greece. Graduated from Athens College, (a Greek-American school) 1954. Parallel studies in Athens of French language and literature. 1954-1960 studied Philosophy (major), Psychology and English Literature (minors), in Munich, Germany (Munich University). Published his doctor’s thesis (on philosophical scepticism) in […]

Inspired by Douglas Anders’s blog entry on Cavafy at the Hellenophile I flicked through some of my old Cavafy favourites.
Μονοτονία
Την μιαν μοτόνονην ημέρα άλλη
μονότονη, απαράλλακτη ακολουθεί. Θα γίνουν
τα ίδια πράγματα, θα ξαναγινούν πάλι-
η όμοιες στιγμές μας βρίσκουνε και μας αφήνουν.
Μήνας περνά και φέρνει άλλον μήνα.
Αυτά που έρχονται κανείς εύκολα τα εικάζει.
Είναι τα χθεσινά τα […]

Thalassa_mikra blogged the events of an American-Hellenic council dinner at: Cyborg’s Contemplative Corner: Stolen centrepieces and the Cyprus question.
I’ve always maintained that Greeks in the Diaspora make up a separate race, more akin to other migrants, to a migrant race, rather than to the modern Greeks living in Greece. The binding characteristic of the […]