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Culture
Giorgos Seferis: The First Greek Poet to Win the Nobel Prize
On December 10, 1963, Greek diplomat and poet Giorgos Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by King Gustav of Sweden.
Greece
Kostas Georgakis, the Student Who Set Himself on Fire for Greece
Kostas Georgakis, a Greek geology student who was attending university in Italy, set himself on fire in Genoa on September 19, 1970 as a protest against the Greek military dictatorship of the time. The 22-year-old's last words were "Long...
Greek News
Mikis Theodorakis’ Historic Concert After the Fall of the Junta
Mikis Theodorakis, who died on Thursday in Athens at 96, gave a memorable and highly emotional concert in 1974 a few months after the fall of the Greek military junta.
Theodorakis, a left-winger, was arrested in 1967 by the dictators,...
Culture
My Afternoon With Zorba: When Mikis Theodorakis was Banned in Greece
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During the time of the military junta in Greece, from 1967 to 74, Greek composer and activist Mikis Theodorakis' music was banned.
By Bill Thomas
The road to my afternoon with Zorba began in 1968. I was in the US Navy...
Greece
My Dad Was a CIA Spy in Greece — But Not a Thug
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by Leslie Absher
When I was just a baby, my father was sent to Greece for his first field assignment with the CIA. It was the summer of 1966 when we arrived, nine months before the military coup led...
Greek News
Greek Singer Antonis Kalogiannis Dies at 81
Renowned Greek singer Antonis Kalogiannis passed away from cardiac arrest at the age of 81 at his house in Athens on Thursday.
Kalogiannis was known for his powerful renditions of songs written by the famed composer Mikis Theodorakis.
Born in the...
Greece
Woman Hit with Stiff Fine For Leaving Flower for Victims of Greek Uprising
A woman was fined 300 euros ($355.96) by Greek police on Tuesday after she left a flower at the site of the uprising at the Athens Polytechnic. In 1974, 24 young people resisting the right-wing military dictatorship in Greece...
Greece
Greek President Sakellaropoulou Commemorates Struggle Against Junta
President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou attended an event held on Friday for the heroes of the anti-dictatorship struggle, which was held in the former detention centres of a Greek military police interrogation unit that operated during the...
Greece
Athens Polytechnic Uprising: How Greek Students Overthrew a Coup
As of November 1973, it had been six and a half years since Greece had been placed under strict military rule. Opponents of the junta which took over in the April 21, 1967 coup had been tortured, jailed, exiled, or put...
Cyprus
July 24, 1974: When Democracy Was Restored to Greece
The five days between July 20 and July 24, 1974 were the most turbulent, and the most decisive, in modern Greek history. The Turkish invasion to Cyprus, the collapse of the seven-year-long military junta, and the birth of the...