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A podcast about all things Greek. History. Language. Lore. Culture. Food. Mythology. Family and more. From diners to the Ottoman Empire, from the history of baklava to Greek Independence. What it means to be Greek and how it shapes our world.

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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
When Things Get Phríke: The Furies
When Things Get Phríke: The Furies

When the Underworld goddesses of vengeance are invoked, nothing will stop them. Then things get Phríke: Tales and terrors of the Erinyes, hounding heroes to their doom.

When Things Get Phríke: The Furies
Pamela Diotes Wood
Ancient Greece, Apollo, Athena, culture, Demons, Greek, Greek gods, Greek heroes, heroes, Homer, Mt. Olympus, rituals, superstition, TroyPamela Diotes Wood#erinyes, #thefuries, #goddessesofvengeance, #phrike, #goddessorhorror, #torment, #orestes, #bloodguilt, #Apollo, #Athena, #patriarchyComment
Greek Traditions in Black & White with Photographer George Tatakis
Greek Traditions in Black & White with Photographer George Tatakis

Award-winning Photographer George Tatakis travels throughout rural Greece documenting Greek culture, traditions, and traditional dress. He shares his adventures, what he’s learned about our culture, and why black and white.

Greek Traditions in Black & White with Photographer George Tatakis
Pamela Diotes Wood
culture, ethnic, Greek, Greek roots, Greek women, history, rituals, tradition, traditional costumes, photographyPamela Diotes Wood#greekhistory, #greektradition, #greek, #traditionalcostumes, #georgetatakis, #photography, #blackandwhitephotography, #award-winningphotographerComment
Orpheus and Eurydice
Orpheus and Eurydice

A tragic tale of a love lost, and one man’s heroic effort to use the only weapon he has to persuade the Lord of Death to give her back: his music.

Orpheus and Eurydice
Pamela Diotes Wood
Ancient Greece, Archaeology, culture, Dionysus, Ghosts, Greek, Greek gods, Greek heroes, heroes, Mt. Olympus, mythology, rituals, Apollo, Love lostPamela Diotes Wood#orpheusandeurydice, #orpheus, #eurydice, #hades, #lordofdeath, #orphism, #sirens, #argonautika, #theninemuses, #apollo, #dionysius, #oracles, #greekmythology, #greek, #art, #maenads, #greekcultureComment
The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece
The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece

Join us for an episode of restless dead, vengeful wraiths, protective spirits, and ghosts summoned to serve the living.

The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece
Pamela Diotes Wood
Ancient Greece, Athens, culture, Demons, ethnic, Greek, Greek heroes, history, Homer, mythology, rituals, The Trojan War, Ghosts, Hauntings, Funeral Rites, The Restless DeadPamela Diotes Wood#restlessdead, #ghosts, #ancientgreece, #funeralrites, #homer, #theiliad, #theodyssey, #hauntings, #greekhistory, #greekculture, #ethnic, #greeklikemeComment