George Papanikolaou
The Greek doctor who never won the Nobel Prize in medicine and saved over 200,000,000 women around the world.
George Papanikolaou,
he never sold the "patent" of his discovery, the "Pap Test".
He offered it to humanity for NO PROFIT.
A superb graffiti in front of the Parthenon, on the subject of the Caryatid that Lord Elgin stole from the Erechtheum, at the beginning of the 19th century... We ask for the return of the Caryatid, without conditions or in exchange.
Map of the languages spoken in the Roman state in 500 AD. It is impressive that despite 600 years of Roman rule Greek was the main spoken language in the Roman Empire! Notice also that the main language spoken in Egypt was Greek and not Egyptian!
1/2 "Una Faccia, Una Razza"
this beautiful Italian phrase incorporates the reality of centuries of history and cultural ties that the Greek and Southern Italian people share together.
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It is not in Greece, nor in Cyprus. It is not in a museum, nor in a university hall. What you see is the French National Assembly, the Parliament of the French, I repeat the PARLIAMENT OF THE FRENCH.
(The Greek parliament could have been like this too)
At the National Museum of Korea, a Corinthian soldier's helmet dating from the 6th century BC is displayed alone in the center of a hall.
In fact, this Greek helmet has been declared the 904th national treasure of Korea.
In Naxos, Sicily, every year children dress up in ancient Greek clothes and some of them represent the gods of Olympus. All this is done to consolidate and perpetuate their Greekness. Naxos in Sicily is a Greek colony founded in 734 BC.
I saluti in greco di Calabria!
Our Greek brothers of Calabria, Apulia, Sicily, Lucania, I am very excited. I recommend that you keep your language and traditions, because these are your roots and your identity. I thank the parents of the new and beautiful girl. A hearty greeting.
The most famous figure in human history, according to the ranking of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is Aristotle. (MIT) collected and analyzed data on history and culture around the planet from 4,000 BC. until 2010.
There are six people from Greece in the top ten.
Many Greeks have the impression that Athens is an ugly city, my knowledge is that it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with a long history and an even better climate, what is your knowledge? 🩵🇬🇷⚓️🏛🏖🌅⛵️
Unbelievable!!! Huge Greek find in the depths of Asia, in mountainous TAJIKISTAN! at an altitude of 3000m
"Unrepeatable", say the archaeologists!
In the other photo is the resident of the area who discovered them, and another Greek inscription on the rock.
Amazing!!!!
"It is a rare gift to be born in Greece and to say how you are Greek! We are a difficult race, but also wonderful!
We know how to laugh out loud, and to cry with sobs, for everything we love, and our passions are many."
Irini Papa. Famous Greek actress.
THE GREEKS GAVE ITALY ITS NAME
The name "Italy" stems from the Greek Italos, a legendary king of the Oenotrians, people of Greek origin who inhabited a territory from Paestum in the Campania to southern Calabria, among the earliest inhabitants of Italy. 👇
A Greek is he who participates in Greek education!
A sweet girl from Netherland made it her goal to learn Greek, and she succeeded.
You speak Greek; or would you like to know?
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Corinthian helmet from the Battle of Marathon found with the warrior's skull inside.
Royal Ontario Museum, Canada.
My question is, how did he end up in Canada from the Marathon?
The graffiti of the ancient Greek mercenaries in the temple of Ramses II. 2610 years ago and is the subject of study...
Graffiti gives us valuable information about the relations between Greeks and Egyptians, in the Archaic era writing was widespread among the Greeks.
We congratulate the students and teachers of Liceo Classico Pitagora in Crotone for achieving a wonderful historical representation of the Olympic Games and athletics in Greece and Magna Greece. In the video the presentation of the athletes' preparation for the ancient games.❤️💙
Outstanding Greek work "Odysseus and Polyphemus", found in 1957 inside the villa of Emperor Tiberius in Sperlonga, along the coast we call the Riviera of Odysseus.
Sperlonga Museum, Lazio, Magna Grecia.
Procession of the Goddess Demetra, the cult of the goddess has remained uninterrupted over the centuries and is expressed today through various survival manifestations of a ritual from the Greek era, goddess of the harvest and protector of Sicily. Gangi Sicily. ₪MAGNA GRÆCIA₪💙
I have been asked many times if there are more Greek or Latin ancient texts that have survived. The answer is obviously Greek.
The reasons, how and why are mentioned in this very nice article ⬇️
*Latin is of course equally important ❤
The Greek Language of Calabria.
Brother Salvatore Siviglia speaks the Greek language of Calabria in Southern Italy (Magna Graecia) in Roghudi Nuovo.
Listen to him say in fluent Greek that if the language dies, a history, a culture dies. Listen to him.⬇️
Murals of Taranto, Taras was founded in the 8th century BC. by the Spartans, it is the only Greek colony in Magna Graecia founded by the Spartans. The city of Taranto Taras never forgets its Hellenic past! We are Magna Graecia. Our origins cannot be erased.💙
Plato was undoubtedly one of the leading philosophers, in his School there was a sign: "αγεωμέτρητος μηδείς εισίτω", meaning anyone who does not know Mathematics/Geometry, do not bother to enter.
Inscription at the University of Coimbra, Portugal
The stolen ancient Greek masterpiece from the sculptor Lysippos
The sculptures come from the Greek island of Chios, where they were placed on the roof of the facade of St. Mark's Basilica in 1254.
Minoan road 3500 years old, the oldest road in Europe. It stretches for 50 kilometers from Knossos in Crete through the mountains to Gortyna-Levena.
The road had side drains, a 2m thick pavement of sandstone blocks bound with clay-gypsum mortar covered by a layer of basalt slabs.
A rendering of Philip II's palace at Aige, the first capital of the kingdom, is now available to visit!
Only half an hour from Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece!