Join Dr Roslynne Bell's lecture on the mythological Amazons in Greek Art neoskosmos.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from neoskosmos.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
History buffs and philhellenes alike will have the opportunity to learn about the history of textiles in all forms, from cloth manufacture, costume, home textiles, and embroidery in Greek society in the latest online offering of Greek History and Culture Seminars by the Greek Community of Melbourne. Author Kathryn Gauci will give the online lecture entitled Threads of Life: Greek Textiles Through the Centuries, on Thursday 29 July where she will explore the major influences and changes in textiles through the centuries, from war to social changes, to the influx of the Asia Minor Greeks after the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 will be explored.
The Ottomans slaughtered some 10,000 during the Chios massacre: Online Lecture Search for: The 1822 massacre of Chios by the Ottomans and the historical emigration from the island will be presented via on online lecture by Mr. Yianni Cartledge on Thursday 22 July, at 7.00pm, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne. During Greece’s fight for independence from the Ottoman Turks, some 100,000 Chiots were either killed, enslaved or displaced. Scholars of the Greek War of Independence have previously acknowledged the massacre was a pivotal moment in the war, although few have elaborated significantly on its long-term outcomes.
Chios massacre and the diaspora that followed is online seminar theme neoskosmos.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from neoskosmos.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Alexander Billinis from the Clemson University (USA) will present an online lecture entitled “Hydra and the Flame of the Revolution”, on Thursday 3 June, at 7 pm, at the Greek Centre, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne. The island of Hydra, a largely barren (yet strikingly beautiful) stone massif rising from the Saronic Gulf, became one of the most important centers of the Greek War of Independence. Sparsely inhabited in 1600, waves of refugees sought solace on the rock, and the need for sustenance and agency drove the Hydriots like Greeks over the millennia to the sea.
Seminar on Life, Death, and Drinking and in the Ancient Greek World neoskosmos.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from neoskosmos.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
11 May 2021 3:20pm On 20 May, at 7:00pm as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne, Dr Leonidas Moiras will give a lecture entitled Ottoman Perceptions of the Greek Revolution. The Greek Centre will host Dr Moiras who is currently teaching History of the Ottoman Empire (15th – 18th cent.) and Ottoman Paleography at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The outburst of the Greek Revolution consisted a major challenge for the Ottomans, since they had to suppress a “millet-wide sedition” of their subjects, who were claiming independence. The sultan, the central state elite and the intelligentsia tried to identify the reasons that triggered the “insurrection” of their subjects.
4 May 2021 1:56pm In a joint event, the Pontiaki Estia and the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCOMV) are teaming up to present a lecture entitled Pontian Genocide Memorial Seminar: William Lloyd and the Liberation of Pontus. Dean Kalimniou will present the seminar on Thursday 13 May, at 7:00pm, at the Greek Centre as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the GCOMV. While there was little pre-War engagement with Pontus in Australia, one man, William Lloyd, did his utmost to draw attention to the plight of the Greeks of Pontus and call for their independence. His story is as fascinating as is the process of verifying the astonishing events that colour it.
This is a hybrid seminar, can also be followed on Facebook and Youtube. Over 2500 AFL/VFL players served from 1897 until the end of National Service in 1972. Of these men, 22 players from various VFL/AFL football clubs served in Greece and Crete during WW2 and sadly five of those players died on active service. Three in Greece or Crete and the other two in New Guinea and Australia. This tribute to all who served in Greece and Crete on the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Crete explores their football careers, their service to Australia and as brave men who were loved sons, brothers, fathers and mates. They came from all walks of life and represented Australian sport and service to their country.
Poet Solomos' great unfinished epic to be read, discussed live and online neoskosmos.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from neoskosmos.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.