Greek Like Me

For Halloween, we’re reposting our 2024 episode The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece. today’s horror movies owe a debt to the Ancient Greeks, whose vengeful wraiths, protective spirits, and restless dead summoned to serve the living influenced art, literature, music and our fear of things that go bump in the night.

The Greek Store Instagram

The Greek Store Facebook

Greeks of Central NJ: The Greek Store

Greek Genocide Resource Center

Tokei Maru - animated film

Voice of Greece: The Japanese Captain Who Saved Hundreds of Greeks and Armenians in 1922

Asa Jennings and the Greek Genocide of Asia Minor Pt 1

The best surviving fragments of lost Ancient Greek plays, collected in one exceptional book of ancient wisdom, humor, and the Greek mindset. Learn why so many manuscripts were lost, and how some may be on the verge of recovery.

jamesromm.com

The National Herald Book Review of Since You’re Mortal...

Big Nobody is a brutally funny novel about teenage loss, trauma, and resilience in the Greek-Cypriot community in 1970s London. Alex Kadis talks immigrant parents, feeling like a misfit, and embracing her Greek identity.

Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius wrote a self-improvement guide that still resonates. Aaron Poochigian’s fresh, relatable translation of Meditations is perfect for these outrageous times.

Aaron Poochigian website

Aaron Poochigian Instagram

Poet Aaron Poochigian On the Book That Changed His Life

Aaron Poochigian Facebook

Rockets rain down on Greek churches every Easter in the Rocket War of Chios.

Traditional 'rocket war' welcomes Orthodox Easter on Chios Island

The Great Rocket War

Easter Rockets on Chios Island, Greece

Chios "Rocket War" lights up Easter amid safety fears

George Tatakis: Vrontados Chios - An Easter Story to Remember

onebeanmarketing

ramonapintea_art

Angie Xidias of One Bean Marketing and artist Ramona Pintea spotlight the impact of women on the Greek Revolution, in a groundbreaking exhibit at the Hellenic Museum of Michigan, March 19 - May 17, 2026.

Comedian and gay icon Gus Constantellis rocketed to fame impersonating his Greek mom on social media. After she died, he wrote My Greek Mom’s Recipe in tribute. Part memoir, part cookbook, it’s a funny, heartbreaking glimpse into their complicated relationship, and in managing grief, the Greek way.

Greek Moms on Easter (2022 Edition)

Actual Greek Moms on Easter

Gus Constantellis book tour

My Greek Mom's Recipes: She Died. I Wrote This Cookbook

Hephaestos: Mighty lord of fire and metalwork, inventor and metal-smith of the gods. Cheated on, rejected, and ridiculed, like a country music anti-hero, he keeps looking for love in all the wrong places.