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Reboot The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece
Reboot The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece

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.

Reboot The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece
Pamela Diotes Wood
Ancient Greece, civilization, culture, ethnic, Funeral Rites, Ghosts, Greek, Greek gods, Greek heroes, Greek protection, Greek theater, Greeks, Hauntings, History, Homer, mythology, rituals, superstition, The Restless Dead, traditionPamela Diotes Wood#restlessdead, #ghosts, #ancientgreece, #funeralrites, #hauntings, #history, #greekhistory, #greekculture, #culture, #ethnicComment
New Jersey's Iconic Greek Store
New Jersey's Iconic Greek Store

The Greek Store in Kenilworth isn’t just an ethnic grocery store, it’s a New Jersey institution supplying the state’s Greeks with a taste of home and a sense of community for over 70 years. Lia Diamandas talks about family history, food trends, and why everyone should eat Greek.

New Jersey's Iconic Greek Store
Pamela Diotes Wood
culture, ethnic, food, Greek, Greek baking, Greek roots, family owned business, greek diaspora, Ethnic groceries, Greek grocery, HistoryPamela Diotes Wood#thegreekstore, #greekdiaspora, #community, #greekcommunity, #newjerseygreeks, #ethnicfood, #greekfood, #familyownedbusiness, #greeksofnewarkComment
Since You’re Mortal… with James Romm
Since You’re Mortal… with James Romm

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.

James Romm Since You_re Mortal... - 6:25:26, 6.03 PM
Pamela Diotes Wood
Ancient Greek, civilization, culture, Greek, Greek poetry, Greek theater, history, humor, Translations, ancient Greek wisdomPamela Diotes Wood#ancienthistory, #history, #ancientgreeks, #ancientgreekwisdom, #lostgreekplays, #classicalgreektheaterComment
Spilling Tea With Gus Constantellis
Spilling Tea With Gus Constantellis

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.

Spilling Tea With Gus Constantellis
Pamela Diotes Wood
culture, ethnic, ethnic moms, food, Greek, Greek baking, Greek moms, Greek recipes, Greek roots, humor, memorial, Gay GreeksPamela Diotes Wood#gusconstantellis, #mygreekmomsrecipes, #greekcookbook, #grief, #greekamerican, #comedian, #gayiconComment
An Aegean Odyssey with author Kathryn Gauci
An Aegean Odyssey with author Kathryn Gauci

Kathryn Gauci’s quest to find traditional Greece drew her to the Dodecanese Islands in 2005. Her memoir, An Aegean Odyssey, intertwines history, cuisine, traditions, and breathtaking landscapes with stories of the people she meets along the way as she explores the road less traveled.

An Aegean Odyssey with author Kathryn Gauci
Pamela Diotes Wood

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Colours of Aegean Dreams: A Greek Odyssey

Travellers' Greece : Memories of an Enchanted Land complied by John B. Tomkinson. Published by ANAGNOSIS.

1970s, Anatolia, Ancient Greece, ancient ruins, architecture, Athens, Colonels' Coup, culture, Faith, Greece in WW2, Greco-Turkish War, Greek, Greek genocide, Greek heroes, Greek Independence, Greek recipes, heroes, history, Karagiózis, mythology, Orthodoxy, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Occupation, RefugeesPamela Diotes Wood#kathryngauci, #anaegeanodyssey, #dodecanese, #history, #greekhistory, #ancienthistory, #travel, #greekgenocide, #greekfood, #greektraditon, #thecolonelscoup, #philotimoComment