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The Athenian (magazine)
''The Athenian'' was an English-language magazine printed in Greece, featuring journalism, commentary, satire, cartoons and essays. Although its reviews and events listings focused on the cultural life of Athens, ''The Athenian'' had a wide audience of English reading residents of Greece and travelers. It was also known for its illustrated covers, its commentaries on popular and ancient Hellenic culture as well as travel information. History The Athenian Magazine was founded by Helen Panopalis Kotsonis in 1974, during the final months of the Greek military dictatorship. She was the magazine's owner, publisher, and editor until 1979. Kotsonis was a Canadian of Greek and Scottish parentage, educated at McGill and Columbia Universities. Kotsonis's model was the New Yorker magazine, with an emphasis on Greek cultural events and history; reviews of theater, cinema, art, and archeology; practical information on museums, shopping, and showtimes; and satire. Its targeted readership was En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political influence on the European continent—particularly Ancient Rome. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. It is a member of the Ivy League. Chartered by the Connecticut Colony, the Collegiate School was established in 1701 by clergy to educate Congregational ministers before moving to New Haven in 1716. Originally restricted to theology and sacred languages, the curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first PhD in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale's faculty and student populations grew after 1890 with rapid expansion of the physical campus and scientific research. Yale is organized into fourteen constituent schools: the original undergraduate col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Andrews (writer)
Kevin Andrews (1924–1989) was an American philhellene, writer and archaeologist. Early life and education Roy Kevin Andrews was born a U.S. citizen in Peking. His mother was Yvette Borup Andrews, but the name of his father was concealed for many years. Yvette was married to Roy Chapman Andrews at the time of Kevin's birth, but the first man to visit her to see the newborn son was not Roy Chapman Andrews, but Harold St Clair (Chips) Smallwood. On the eve of Kevin's marriage, nearly 30 years later, Yvette announced to Kevin that Smallwood, and not Roy Chapman Andrews, was his father. This was to have a fundamental and shattering effect on Kevin who constantly and incessantly obsessed on his own identity. His mother's ancestors included George A. Brandreth, Aaron Ward, and Elkanah Watson, all prominent in New York business and politics. Kevin Andrews was schooled in England at Stowe, where he learned classical Greek. He served for three years as a private in the US Army see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willard Manus
Willard Manus (born September 28, 1930, died January 19, 2023) was a Los Angeles-based novelist, playwright, and journalist. His best known book is ''Mott the Hoople (novel), Mott the Hoople'' (1966), the novel from which the British 1970s Mott the Hoople, hard rock band derived their name. Manus was born in New York. He is the author of ''This Way to Paradise: Dancing on the Tables'', a memoir of life in Lindos, Rhodes, Greece, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Additionally he has had a dozen other books published, most recently a young adult novel, ''A Dog Called Leka'', which deals with a young lad sailing the Aegean islands in the company of an exceptional dog. More than two dozen of his plays have been produced in Los Angeles, regionally and in Europe. Member of Los Angeles Film Critics Association since 1981. Journalism *Columns :Southern California Correspondent for Playbill On-Line (1995-2000). :Monthly columnist (theatre, opera, books, movies, jazz & blues) What's Up Mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alekos Fassianos
Alekos Fassianos ( el, Αλέκος Φασιανός, 13 December 1935 – 16 January 2022) was a Greek painter. Life and career Fassianos was born in Athens in 1935. After graduating from the Athens School of Fine Arts, he moved to Paris, France, in 1960, to study lithography at the Paris National School of Arts, where he met several artists and writers. Fassianos used to design the stage decorations for major classic and modern productions. His art has been exhibited in museums and galleries including in Athens, Paris, and throughout Europe, as well as in Tokyo, New York, São Paulo, and Melbourne. In addition to private collections, his art works can be found in the following museums in France; the Paris Museum of Modern Art; the Maeght Foundation, San Paul de Vence;l, and the Center for Contemporary Art. Fassianos was very popular in Greece, and some of his works are exhibited in public places: two large murals entitled The Myth of My Neighborhood, can be seen in Athens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyros Vassiliou
Spyros Vassiliou (Greek: Σπύρος Βασιλείου; June 16, 1903 – March 22, 1985) was a Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. He became widely recognized for his work starting in the 1930s, when he received the Benaki Prize from the Athens Academy. The recipient of a Guggenheim Prize for Greece (in 1960), Spyros Vassiliou's works have been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe, in the United States, and Canada. Art The townsmen of Galaxidi, where Vassiliou was born, collected money to send him to Athens in 1921, to study at the Athens School of Fine Arts under teachers Alexandros Kaloudis and Nikolaos Lytras. In 1929, Vassiliou held his first individual exhibition, and in 1930 he was awarded the Benaki Prize for his design of Saint Dionysios Church in Kolonaki, Athens. During this time he was also a founding member of the art groups ”Techni" and "Stathmi". He represented Greece at the Venice Biennale in 1934 and 1964, exhibited in Alexandria in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) was established in 1996 to honor Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos (1909–1996). Niarchos was one of the world's largest transporters of oil and owned the largest supertanker fleet of his time. Organization The foundation's board of directors includes: *Philip Niarchos, co-president (son of Stavros Niarchos) * Spyros Niarchos, co-president (son of Stavros Niarchos) *Andreas Dracopoulos, co-president (great-nephew of Stavros Niarchos) *George Agouridis *Heini Murer The foundation has staff in Athens, Greece; Monte Carlo, Monaco; and New York City. Since 1996, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation has provided more than 4,700 grants totaling more than $3 billion to non-profit agencies. In 2012, in response to the socio-economic crisis in Greece, SNF announced a grant initiative of additional $130 million (€100 million) over three years to help ease the adverse effects of the deepening crisis. A new initiative, Recharging the Youth, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Magazines
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
