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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
The Japanese Hero of the Smyrna Catastrophe
The Japanese Hero of the Smyrna Catastrophe

In September 1922, a legendary Japanese vessel rescued hundreds of Greeks and Armenians from the Smyrna massacre. Historians insist the ship was never there. Recently discovered clues may prove them wrong.

The Japanese Hero of the Smyrna Catastrophe
Pamela Diotes Wood
Anatolia, Armenian genocide, Asia Minor, Ethnic cleansing, Greek, Greek genocide, heroes, history, massacre, Nationalist Turks, Racism, Refugees, Smyrna, Surviving trauma, Unsung heroesPamela Diotes Wood#history, #greekhistory, #smyrna, #smyrna1922, #smyrnacatastrophe, #kemalists, #japanesehero, #japaneserescueship, #tokeimaru, #legendsComment
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
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
Asa Jennings & the Greek Genocide of Asia Minor Part 2
Asa Jennings & the Greek Genocide of Asia Minor Part 2

The Greek Genocide of Asia Minor wiped out two thousand years of Hellenic history in Anatolia. Refugees found hope in a sickly Methodist minister from New York State.

Greek Genocide Resource Center

Forgetting the Smyrna Fire

Asa Jennings & The Greek Genocide of Asia Minor Part 2
Pamela Diotes Wood
Anatolia, Asia Minor, ethnic, Ethnic cleansing, Greek, Greek genocide, heroes, history, Long live Greece, massacre, multiethnic, Nationalist Turks, Neruddin Pasha, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Empire, Refugees, Religion, Smyrna, Treaty of Sévres, Mustafa KemalPamela Diotes Wood#asiaminor, #greekgenocide, #smyrna, #history, #nationalistturks, #asajennings, #neruddin, #deathmarch, #armeniangenocide, #orthodoxchristians, #halseypowell, #admiralbristol, #kemal, #massacre, #rescueComment