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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.

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The Theft of the Parthenon Marbles
The Theft of the Parthenon Marbles

The Parthenon and its spectacular marbles survived for two thousand years. Then Ottoman Occupation enabled an opportunistic British diplomat to run amok among Greece’s greatest monuments, and pillage the symbol of Greek civilization and democracy.

The Unexplained: Sacred Greek Temple is an Optical Illusion

Phidias, Parthenon Sculptures

Acropolis, ancient ruins, architecture, Athena, Athens, civilization, culture, Greek, Greek heroes, history, mythology, Orthodoxy, Ottoman Empire, the Parthenon, Parthenon, Lord Elgin, LootingPamela Diotes Wood#theparthenon, #parthenonmarbles, #thebritishmuseum, #greekarchitecture, #classicalgreece, #athens, #athena, #phidias, #christopherhitchens, #ottomanoccupation, #ottomanempire, #britishempire, #lordelgin, #ancientworlds, #greece, #greekcultureComment
What Are the Parthenon Marbles?
What Are the Parthenon Marbles?

For 2,500 years the most spectacular marble statues ever seen graced the Parthenon, atop the Acropolis in Athens. For all of that time artists, architects, mathematicians, and scholars studied and admired the Temple of Athena and her sculptures. We’ll talk history, the man who envisioned the Acropolis complex, and why the Parthenon Marbles are pride and “essence of Greekness.”

Phidias, Parthenon Sculptures

Parthenon (Acropolis)

The Parthenon/History/Acropolis of Athens

ancient ruins, Athens, civilization, culture, Greek, Greek gods, heroes, history, Ottoman Empire, rituals, the Parthenon, tradition, Perikles, architecture, Acropolis, AthenaPamela Diotes Wood#theparthenon, #parthenonmarbles, #thebritishmuseum, #grecopersianwars, #Pericles, #greekarchitecture, #classicalgreece, #greekcitystates, #athens, #perikles, #athena, #thegoldenageofgreece, #lordelgin, #ancientworldsComment
Karagiózis
Karagiózis

How a Turkish shadow puppet evolved into a symbol of Greek suffering and resistance. Funny and subversive, Karagiózis connected Greeks in cities, villages and islands by keeping their music, culture and the seeds of resistance alive; sustaining Greeks through the Ottoman Occupation, the War for Independence, civil war, Nazi brutality and military oppression.

Ευγένιος Σπαθάρης Ο Καραγκιόζης Γιατρός

Karagiozis makes bullying

Karagiózis, shadow puppet, Athens, culture, ethnic, Greek, Greek heroes, Greek insults, Greek politics, heroes, history, humor, Ottoman Empire, Political Protest, traditionPamela Diotes Wood#karagiozis, #shadowpuppettheater, #greekshadowpuppet, #karagöz, #ottomanempire, #socialsatire, #history, #greekhistory, #greekculture, #ellines, #ελλινεςComment
The Smyrna Catastrophe
The Smyrna Catastrophe

What led up to the ethnic cleansing of Anatolia and the destruction of Türkiye’s most beautiful and ethnically diverse city. Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians and Jews were erased from the region for the first time in 2,500 years. Guest Helen Vardakis shares her family’s escape in 1922 from Kemal’s blueprint for genocide.

1922 The Destruction of Smyrna

Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City

Asia Minor of Our Heart.02 Photos Until August 1922

Smyrna, Greek genocide, Ethnic cleansing, Nationalist Turks, Anatolia, the 7 Churches, Armenian genocide, Refugees, culture, ethnic, Greek, history, Ottoman Empire, World War One, Greco-Turkish War, Treaty of Sévres, massacrePamela Diotes Wood#smyrna, #smyrna1922, #greekgenocide, #thesmyrnacatastrophe, #anatolia, #genocidesurvivors, #turkishnationalists, #kemal, #paradiselost, #gilesmilton, #theblightofasia, #thejewelofthemediterranean, #venizelos, #greco-turkishwar, #generationaltrauma, #ethniccleansing, #armenians, #assyrians, #worldwarone, #firstworldwar, #centralpowers, #ententepowers, #betrayal, #colonialism, #treatyofsévres, #treatyoflausanne, #theparthenonmarbles, #lloydgeorge, #georgehorton, #cityoftolerance, #deathofacity, #massacre, #neverforget, #podcast, #greeklikeme, #greekhistory, #history, #ethnic, #greekroots, #greekculture, #ellines, #ελλινεςComment
Icons & Orthodox Christianity
Icons & Orthodox Christianity

Guest Georgia Dourdoulakis explains why icons are so important to the Orthodox Church; how they are NOT “graven images;” why we say they are written, not drawn; and what theology in colors means.

Learning to Read Icons

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Iconography/What is an Icon?

Religion, Orthodox Christian, history, Greek, Icons, Iconography, Faith, Prayer, Orthodoxy, tradition, Brain SciencePamela Diotes Wood#iconography, #orthodoxiconography, #spirituality, #religion, #faith, #heritage, #iconoclasts, #greekorthodox, #greekorthodoxchurch, #orthodoxchristianity, #podcast, #greek, #culture, #ethnic, #greekamerican, #greeklikeme, #americangreek, #greekdiaspora, #greekroots, #greekculture, #yiasou, #agape, #ellines, #ελλινες, #historynerd, #greektraditionComment