I’ve upload a few of my Athens photos at Tiscali. I may add more if I go through all my boxes of photos and scan them. These were the only I had in digital form on my hard drive.
The shrine pic isn’t in Athens at all. I can’t remember where that is.
The photo I’ve […]

The answer to Quiz #5 is Grigorios Palaiologos or Γρηγόριος Παλαιολόγος (1794-1844).
His literary work had been ignored for 150 years until the summer of 1989 when Manolis Anagnostakis, head of Nefelis house, published the first lot of previously unknown works, found in a collection belinging to the Vikelea Library of Heraklion. A few months later […]

OK. Time for another quiz “borrowed” from today’s edition of Greek daily Ta Nea.
A strange thing occurred in the Greek literary world at around 1990. Three publishing houses—Hermes, Nefeli and the Ourani Foundation—published the same two novels at roughly the same time. Both novels had been written by a Constantinopolitan around 150 years earlier, […]

A while ago I read a rather haunting tale in Zoetrope All-Story. It was Dean Bakopoulos’s first published story: Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon. It was a resonating tale, not easily forgettable. And Dean Bakopoulos became one of those authors I wanted to keep an eye out for…
Well, his novel Please Don’t […]

Austrian artist Gerhard Haderer is legally in the clear and his illustrated book, Η Ζωή του Ιησού (The Life of Jesus), translated by Περής Ορφανίδης and published by OXY back in November 2002, will be placed back on the shelves of Greek bookstores around the nation. It is on sale via the OXY website, where […]

The Greek Orthodox Church has been at the centre of a scandal and still hasn’t recovered from its identity crisis a few years back…
…So: One way to keep eyes off your scandal is to point your finger at another scandal.
Hence the April 13 court case, which will address the case of Austrian artist Gerhard […]