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Greek Like Me

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.

Posts in Greek
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.

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.

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
Greeks & the Civil Rights Movement Part 2
Greeks & the Civil Rights Movement Part 2

A man of conscience continues to push the Greek Orthodox faithful in America to take a stand for justice and equal rights in the 1960s and beyond. And scholars’ take on the bizarre “reverse empathy” of today’s conservative Greeks.

Civil Rights, Women of Epirus, Whiteness, The Civil Rights Movement, Segregation, Religion, Racism, Protests, Political Protest, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Christian, Jim Crow, history, Greek pirates, Greek, Faith, Archbishop Iakovos, Justice, MLK, BLMPamela Diotes Wood#orthodoxchristianity #archbishopiakovos #mlk #civilrights #votingrightsact #freedom #equalrights #history #BLM #AHEPA #justice #bloodysunday #selma #reverseracism #americanhistory #americangreeks #archbishopelpidophoros, #reverseempathyComment
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

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
Asa Jennings & The Greek Genocide of Asia Minor, Part 1
Asa Jennings & The Greek Genocide of Asia Minor, Part 1

600 years of brutal persecution by Turkish oppressors culminated in the Greek Genocide of Asia Minor. We’ll talk historical context and introduce Asa Jennings, the humble American who said “Enough!”

Anatolia, Ancient Greece, Ethnic cleansing, Faith, Greek, Greek genocide, history, Holocaust, massacre, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Occupation, Refugees, Smyrna, Spetses, World War One, The First Balkan War, Asia Minor, Neruddin PashaPamela Diotes Wood#asiaminor, #greekgenocide, #nationalistturks, #history, #massacre, #smyrnaComment