Greek Like Me

He rescued children, averted a famine, and was the patron saint of sailors, brides, and pirates. Nearly 1,700 years later St. Nicholas continues to inspire the best in us.

Could Ancient Bones Suggest Santa was Real? U of Oxford

The Bones of the Real-Life Santa Claus

The Real St. Nick is a Far Cry From the Santa we Know

Inside NYC's National Shrine: St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church

In the early days of Greco-Italian War, as their region was being invaded, and their villages attacked by the Italian army, the women of the Pindus stepped up to fight back and keep the Greek army going.

Women of Epirus

Γυναίκες Ηπειρώτισσες (Women of Epirus) Monument

Women of Epirus and Their Social Status from Ancient to Modern Times

Women of the Pindos/Paul Vrellis Museum

Why the understanding of what it is to be Greek has changed over time. And why I’m here for it!

Greek Identity White Paper

Greece has always been a land of gods and monsters. But who knew there are more species of vampires in Greece than anywhere else in the world? We’ll dive into our tales of Greek man-eaters, murder and mayhem.

Modern Greek Folklore & Ancient Greek Religion

Oxi Day - October 28, 1940 was the day Greece took a stand against a powerful fascist army and put a crimp in Hitler’s grand plan for world domination. In the months that followed, Greece inspired war-ravaged Europe, and diverted and delayed the Italian and German armies long enough to impact the course of World War 2. Ζήτω η Ελλάς! Long Live Greece!

How Greece saved Europe in world war 2

28 October 1940 - "Heroes fight like Greeks"

How Greece Helped the Allies Win WW2

We’re going to follow the Parthenon Marbles, damaged and orphaned, to their new place of residence, in England. And discover how a government claiming it was based on justice, abetted one of the biggest heists of all time. Give them back!!

Parthenon Battle?National Geographic

How the Parthenon Marbles Ended Up in the British Museum

The Parthenon and its spectacular marbles survived for two thousand years. Then Ottoman Occupation enabled an opportunistic British diplomat to run amok among Greece’s greatest monuments, and pillage the symbol of Greek civilization and democracy.

The Unexplained: Sacred Greek Temple is an Optical Illusion

Phidias, Parthenon Sculptures

For 2,500 years the most spectacular marble statues ever seen graced the Parthenon, atop the Acropolis in Athens. For all of that time artists, architects, mathematicians, and scholars studied and admired the Temple of Athena and her sculptures. We’ll talk history, the man who envisioned the Acropolis complex, and why the Parthenon Marbles are pride and “essence of Greekness.”

Phidias, Parthenon Sculptures

The Parthenon/History/Acropolis of Athens

How a Turkish shadow puppet evolved into a symbol of Greek suffering and resistance. Funny and subversive, Karagiózis connected Greeks in cities, villages and islands by keeping their music, culture and the seeds of resistance alive; sustaining Greeks through the Ottoman Occupation, the War for Independence, civil war, Nazi brutality and military oppression.

Karagiozis makes bullying

Ευγένιος Σπαθάρης Ο Καραγκιόζης Γιατρός

What led up to the ethnic cleansing of Anatolia and the destruction of Türkiye’s most beautiful and ethnically diverse city, erasing Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians and Jews from the region for the first time in 2,500 years. Guest Helen Vardakis shares her family’s escape in 1922 from Kemal’s blueprint for genocide.

Asia Minor of Our Heart.02 Photos Until August 1922

Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City

1922 The Destruction of Smyrna