Baux de Provence, Photo Nikos Moropoulos
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A journey in Romanesque and Gothic Art
I have started reading the “History of European Culture”, by Panayiotis Kanellopoulos (1902 – 1986), a Greek author and politician.
Continue readingOn “Absolute” and “Total” War
Introduction In the context of an online course I am taking, I recently read von Clausewitz’s “On War” and from
Continue readingFestive Lunch – 1st January 2015 – Marathon, Attica, Greece
Today I rejoice the passage of time, culminating in the coming of the new year. There is no better
Continue readingTwo Masters of Light: Claude Lorrain and J.M.W. Turner
An enormous deep-red sunset over a stormy sea, an indication of an approaching typhoon.A detail from JMW Turner’s “Slave-Ship”. Painting
Continue readingFernand Braudel, French Historian
Pour moi, l’histoire est la somme de toutes les histoires possibles – une collection de métiers et points de vue,
Continue reading1001 Ways to Die – (10) Ginette Neveu, French Violinist (1919-1949)
Edith Piaf wrote of Neveu in her autobiography, The Wheel of Fortune: “I would have traveled thousands of miles to hear the
Continue readingMushrooms and Truffles: A “Fluxus Eleatis” disourse
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: The word gastronomy has been revived from the Greek; it sounds sweetly in French ears, and although
Continue readingAlain Resnais' and Marguerite Duras' "Hiroshima Mon Amour"
‘I remember Hiroshima’ ‘You remember nothing’ “You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing.” ” I saw everything. Everything.” It has been
Continue readingThe irresistible power of … UPDATED 8pm – (Το μ…νι σερνει και το καραβι και τον αρχηγο του ΔΝΤ) ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΣΗ 8 μμ
Εμεις οι Ελληνες εχομε βαθειες παρακαταθηκες. Ειμεθα και ναυτικος λαος. Και ως εκ τουτου εχομεν επιγνωσιν των δυναμεων εκεινων που
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