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[aswtos-yios]

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[gemsofgreece]

Famous Greeks who fought in the Greek resistance against the Axis Powers in WWII

Odysseus Elytis (middle): The nobelist poet served as a second lieutenant in the Greek frontline. After a few months he contracted a severe case of typhus, so he had to be hospitalized. He recovered and a lot of his future poetic work was inspired by the war.

Nikephoros Vrettakos (standing on the right in the first picture): The poet and author fought in the frontline in 1940 and almost got killed in Klisura. After his regiment was dissolved, he joined EAM / ELAS (Greek People's Liberation Army) and continued fighting until 1944.

Nikos Kavvadias (seated): Well known for his poetry inspired by his adventures in the sea, the sailor rarely wrote prose, but when he did, it was usually inspired by his days in land fighting in the war.

Many other poets also fought in the war. Ángelos Sikelianós volunteered to join the army, but he was rejected because he was 56 years old at the time.

Rebetiko and Laiko musicians and composers Markos Vamvakaris and Vassilis Tsitsanis also went to war. Tsitsanis entrusted his buzuki instrument with his mother and promised to return to take it back.

Painter Yannis Tsaruhis also fought in the Albanian frontline (Italy invaded Albania and then marched from Albania into Greece, Greece halted them there and then counterattacked, pushing the Italian forces back, which is why a lot of the war during 1940-1941 took place in the Albanian mountains). Tsaruhis heard that a soldier had a vision of Virgin Mary. He immediatedly made this religious icon, using a kipper can as a canvas and he named it "Η Παναγιά της Νίκης" (i panayá tis níkis, the Blessed Virgin of Victory). The paint had not even dried before a rumour was spread in the camp that the icon was supposedly miraculous.

Comedian Dinos Iliópulos, was a Greek of Alexandria, born and raised in Egypt. He completed his millitary service in Greece, even though he was an expat , so it was entirely optional for him. He had returned to his home in Egypt for just one day after finishing his service, when he heard of the bad news. He left immediately, returned to Greece and joined the army.

Lambros Konstandaras (centered in the left picture): the great actor volunteered to join the army and fought in the frontline. At some point he was severely injured in the head and the hip. He was rescued by the aforementioned poet Odysseus Elytis! After his recovery, he insisted on returning to the battlefield, but he was prevented from doing this. He was suffering from his wounds for the rest of his life, although his vibrant charisma and talent in cinema and theatre never allowed anyone to see this.

Kostas Hatzichristos (right picture): the hysterical comedian originally dreamed of a military profession, so when the war broke out, he joined the army and fought passionately. However, his days in the army were crazy. He was in the northern front and soon his legs developed frostbite. At some point he was sent to serve in a military hospital. Next to it was a cafe owned by an Albanian man and his sister Orhana. Hatzichristos, a notorious womanizer, fancied Orhana and provided supplies to her constantly and made her other favours as well. At some point Orhana disappeared. Hatzichristos found out she was collaborating with the Italians and was giving them all the supplies he was providing her! He became the target of a lot of mockery in the Greek camp. He was moved to regiments on the rear and then he had a lieutenant who just did.not.like.him and bullied him constantly. Once, Hatzichristos stumbled upon Italian soldiers trying to flee during his patrol. The lieutenant screamed at him to shoot them but Hatzichristos saw how young they were and how they were begging for mercy by crying out “Fratello, fratello” (brother in Italian) and felt sorry for them. He did not obey the lieutenant's order. The lieutenant was furious. Hatzichristos fetched them in front of him and said: "You kill them, since you are the tough guy". Hatzichristos always had a way to deliver lines and the lieutenant broke in laughter. He was so amused that he agreed to spare the lives of the Italians. He knew that an Italian regiment would pass from that point in a few hours, so they tied the two Italians in a tree, placed a little canned food next to them and left them there to be found by their own people once they passed.

Famous movie and theatre actor Dionysis Papayannópulos participated in important battles in extreme conditions in the mountains. He said that the battles lasted so long that when they ran out of bullets, they would keep fighting with sticks and stones. During the Axis occupation of Greece, Papayannópulos resumed his job as an actor in the theatre. One night, Max Merten, the Kriegsverwaltungsrat of the occupational forces in Thessaloniki, attempted to meet Papayannopulos at his dressing room in order to congratulate him on his performance. The actor refused to open the door and receive him. Merten was responsible for the deportation of the 50,000 Jews of Thessaloniki.

The great theatre actor Manos Katrakis (center) fought in the frontline and saw his commander commit suicide before his eyes when they were caught and disarmed by the enemy.

Sources:

Eleftheros Typos, through Lavart

thessalonikiartsandculture.gr

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Spartorama

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[stavrakas]

tagged by @purple-amaranthe (<33)

favorite color: deep orange, warm brown

currently reading: i've started mark mazower's the greek revolution n i'm taking it pretty slow. i'm also on the last few chapters of the shift by nikos kavvadias but i don't feel like finishing it yet lol i want it to be in the back of my mind for a while (← translation: will be sad when i finish reading it)

currently watching: not watching anything atm but the last film i watched was compartment no. 6 (highly recommended)

sweet, savory or spicy? savory if it doesn't have 15g of sodium i don't want it

currently working on: idk man keeping my peace and flipping burgers at my job

thank u for the tag :]!!!!!! and everyone who's read this far consider urself tagged

#ευχαριστώ δωροθέα παλικάρι μ που με ταγκάρεις σ'αυτά τα ποστ είσαι litch rally το βύσμα μου για αυτό το σάιτ #vs #tag game

[cherryjuicegf]

what nikos kavvadias has done for greek girlies in their 20s may not go down in history. but i will know

#chrysa speaks #greek tag #βαρκα του βαλτου αναστροφη. φτενη διχως καρενα. *breaks down and screams*

[lightingway]

I will take communion with sea water gathered from your body drop by drop into an ancient cup of copper from Algiers from which the pirates received the blessing before giving battle. […] The holy rust we are born from feeds us, feeds on us, and kills us. Where do we come from? From Babylon. Where do we go to? Into the cyclone’s eye.

Nikos Kavvadias, “Fata Morgana”

#r: nikolaos & rafe #v: ozymandias #t: words

[babiskavvadias]

Είπα στο DALL-E, "Χόρεψε πάνω στο φτερό του καρχαρία"...

(DALL-E results for the line from Nikos Kavvadias' poem "Woman": "Dance on a shark's fin".)

[magnoliagrandiflora]

#nikos kavvadias #pousi #marabou #poetry #greek #greek post

[kukushka777]

// Fata Morgana- Νίκος Καββαδίας (απόσπασμα)

#ποίηση #φάτα Μοργκάνα #Νίκος Καββαδίας #Έλληνες #ποιητες #Ελλάδα #poetry #fata Morgana #nikos kavvadias #greek #poets #poet #poem #song #greece #text #τραγούδι #ποίημα #ποιητης #ποιηματα #γρεεκ #ελληνικά #ποστ #mine #not my poem just my post :p

[ars-historia-est]

hey! ^ ^ 1, 7 and 11 for the ask (i hope it's not too many) 🌻

Hi!

1. favourite place in your country?

Easy! The castle in Ioannina, and the promenade next to the lake!

7. three words from your native language that you like the most? 

Oh so many…but top:

ἰδέρως - one who falls in love as soon as he sees something

ψυχανεμίζομαι - my soul feels something on the wind, meaning the instinctive understanding of something when no tangible evidence (yet) exists.

χαρμολύπη - the feeling of mixed and inextricable joy and sorrow

11. favourite native writer/poet? 

M. Karagatsis (Μ. Καραγάτσης), author of “Junkermann”, “The Great Chimera” and “Blood Lost and Won”, is my absolutely favourite Greek writer. As for poets, it’s a toss between Constantine Cavafy and Nikos Kavvadias. 

Thank you very much for the questions!

#I much enjoyed it #ask game #ask meme #greece #greek asks #greek language #m.karagatsis #karagatsis #kavvadias #nikos kavvadias #constine cavafy #cavafy #konstantinos kavafis #ioannina #castle #lake pamvotis #greek culture #personal

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

I will take communion with sea water gathered from your body drop by drop

Nikos Kavvadias, Fata Morgana

#quote #nikos kavvadias #fata morgana #communion #sea #woter #body #drop #quotes

[radiogornjigrad]

BORIS JOVANOVIĆ KASTEL: MOREPLOVAC I VELIKAN GRČKE POEZIJE NIKOS KAVVADIAS

BORIS JOVANOVIĆ KASTEL: MOREPLOVAC I VELIKAN GRČKE POEZIJE NIKOS KAVVADIAS

Grčkoj poeziji i njenim autentičnim helenskim amblemima na atlasu poezije Sredozemlja (sunce, more, krhotine antičke civilizacije, sloboda, ep, siromaštvo…) uronjenim u simbolizam i nadrealno, realnije od realnog, uz nobelovce Seferisa i Elitisa, potom Kavafija i Ricosa i drugih iz te solarne plejade, posebnu ljepotu dao je Nikos Kavvadias. Uprkos činjenici da tadašnji grčki pjesnici nijesu bili…

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#Boris Jovanović Kastel #NIKOS KAVVADIAS #poezija

[aswtos-yios]

#greek #nikos kavvadias #kavvadias #poetry

[gemsofgreece]

im looking forward to studying Modern Greek language and culture at university, and simply love your blog. i have fallen in love with this mysterious beauty! which parts of Greek culture, whether it be literature, art, history, schools of thought, anything at all, would you recommend me to look at in further depth? something less talked about, or more niche perhaps? much love x

Ohhh wishing you the best in your future studies! Hoping you will have a great time!

Some recs of things I personally enjoy from the Modern Greek culture, they are subjective, I have mentioned most before, so I am technically playing the broken record again!

Entechno, Rembetiko and classic Laiko music genres. Check the composers Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hatzidakis, Markos Vamvakaris, Vassilis Tsitsanis and Stavros Xarhakos as a start. But I doubt you won’t learn about them through your studies anyway.

Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) is my favourite artist but a lot of modern(er) Greek art is very interesting actually

Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis in literature

Erotokritos, both the poetry and the music and all its folk impact

Odysseus Elytis, Giannis Ritsos, Constantine Cavafy and Nikos Kavvadias poetry

I can’t not say the Greek Revolution but I doubt you can escape it in your studies anyway. Also the Axis Occupation Resistance, the Pontic Greek genocide and the population exchange with Turkey. But you will learn about all this, I believe. Check also about the civil war, which I am not sure they will teach you about at length. And the military junta.

Ioannis Kapodistrias and Eleftherios Venizelos as political profile studies. Check out those of Konstantinos Karamanlis and Andreas Papandreou as well if you are interested in politics, not because they were anywhere near as great as the former two but to explore the unbelievable impact they still have in Greek society.

Doesn’t matter if you are Christian or not, I really like Byzantine ecclesiastical music and architecture from an aesthetical standpoint so I recommend

Byzantine and Modern Greek folk fashion

Check out Georgios Gemistus Plethon, the Byzantine Greek Neoplatonic philosopher

Would I deviate if I just said Byzantine history? Oh well. It’s fascinating to explore the “relics” of Byzantium in the collective Modern Greek conscience.

Easter and Carnival traditions, their origins, historical evolution and practice today

Golden age cinema comedies (50s - 70s)

Watch the Island once you can understand Greek well (if you don’t already) or find English subtitles. It’s such a perfect and accurate window to Greek ethos in the first decades of the 20th century

Watch TV comedies of the 90s and 00s.

That might be harder to explore but I like the significance of Epitheórisi (Revue) as a theatrical genre in Greece. In general, check the tradition and huge presence of satire and satire comedians in Modern Greek society. Political correctness has made satire shrink drastically but I think it has an interesting history throughout the 20th century and first years of the 21st.

If you are interested in a school of thought, check out the work of the philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997)

If you don’t speak Greek yet, some of the recs are more niche than others and you will probably have to wait to be somewhat fluent in Greek before you can explore them properly. But music, art, philosophy… you can start with these. As for the history, you can also start, but make sure to also read Greek historiography once you know Greek better because… well.

#Greece #modern greek #greek culture #greek rec #anon #ask

[stavrakas]

the loneliness may be crippling and devastating but at least i have stavros tou notou by nikos kavvadias 🙏❤

#vs #τίποτα δεν μπορεί να με σταματήσει απ'το να εξιδανικεύω τη ζωή στη θάλασσα

[cherryjuicegf]

7, 9, & 17 (or 18 if English is your first language!) for the bookish asks 👀

7. compile a list of three books to read in autumn

ooh well!!

wuthering heights by emily bronte

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

9. name a book series you didn’t finish (and why)

another high school attempt was the wildwood chronicles by colin foley. i read the first one and it was very nice but some books don't actually need more to follow you know?

17. recommend three books written in your mother tongue

βάρδια (the shift) by nikos kavvadias

τα μυστικά του βάλτου (secrets of the swamp) by penelope delta

μπλε υγρό (blue liquid) by vivian stergiou

book asks!!

#this is a reminder to me to read more classic greek literature #i used to a lot as a kid but i don't remember all of it #answered #katesbelovas #thanks for the ask!!!

[outosegoflip]

#Poets #Nikos Kavvadias