#country: greece

[peachypaddys]

ten frames.

dogtooth (2009) — dir. yorgos lanthimos

[havewereadthis]

"If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance."

[kurj]

minoan miku!! (in a mikuified minoan outfit)

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more of my minoan art: click

[bubblyernie]

Bro was rent asunder. Thanks for all the requests guys!! We're SOOOO BACK

art tag // commission info

[keirahknightley]

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[fairytaleprincessart]

[edorazzi]

Page 15 of my Miraculous Mentor AU comic A Matter of Trust! With a fleeting glance at some previous Miraculous holders... 👀

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[kropotkindersurprise]

October 28/29, 2023 - A small selection of the world-wide protests in solidarity with Palestine. In Europe and North America hundreds of thousands took to the streets to condemn their governments' complicity in Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people, and demanding an end to Israel's genocide and apartheid. [videos] Solidarity demonstrations pictured here: London, UK Berlin, Germany / New York City, USA Athens, Greece Toronto, Canada / Paris, France / Rome, Italy Detroit, USA / San Francisco, USA Bilbao, Basque Country / Lille, France / Montpellier, France Los Angeles, USA Glasgow, Scotland / Marseille, France Thessaloniki, Greece / Madrid, Spain / Valencia, Spain Den Haag, the Netherlands

[adiradirim]

Sephardic Jews from Thessaloniki in their traditional costumes, in the city’s old cemetery, before the war // a contemporary photo that shows where the destroyed cemetery once was, which is now Greece's largest university, built partially on top of and with land and materials (particularly tombstones) stolen from the razed site.

Thessaloniki or Salonika, once referred to as “the Jerusalem of the Balkans” due to its Ladino-speaking Jewish majority, saw roughly 96% of its Jewish population murdered during the Holocaust. This mass destruction extended to the city's Jewish cemetery, which had been the country's largest, established in the 15th century and housing hundreds of thousands of Jewish graves until its razing by city authorities who had long desired to repurpose the land and resented the inconvenience of Jewish presence. Despite its large-scale destruction during German occupation in 1942, which was initiated and carried out primarily by Thessaloniki authorities with Nazi consent and arrangement, some parts of the cemetery survived intact as late as 1947. Many tombstones were subsequently appropriated and used by city authorities and the Greek Orthodox Church. After the war, people were still carrying away Jewish gravestones each day and regularly looting the cemetery in search of valuables. The city's officials, led by their mayor, completed the cemetery's destruction and sold the tombstones to contractors for use as building materials in various projects; as such many were and are still found in various walls, roads, structures, and churches around the city. A 1992 commemorative book pictures Greek schoolgirls playing Hamlet with skulls and other bones they found in the cemetery.

“[T]he ‘rape’ of the cemetery escalated, marble flooded the market, and its price plummeted. Jewish tombstones were stacked up in mason’s yards and, with the permission of the director of antiquities of Macedonia and overseen by the metropolitan bishop and the municipality, used to pave roads, line latrines, and extend the sea walls; to construct pathways, patios, and walls in private and public spaces though out the city, in suburbs such as Panorama and Ampelokipi, and more than sixty kilometers away in beach towns in Halkidiki, where they decorated playgrounds, bars, and restaurants in hotels; to build a swimming pool – with Hebrew-letter inscription visible; to repair the St. Demetrius Church and other buildings...” Devin Naar, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece

Most of the efforts to return found tombstones throughout the city are led by Jews, particularly Jacky Benmayor, the curator of the Jewish Museum and last Ladino speaker in Greece, who has personally recovered hundreds of tombstones including his own family's. Surviving Greek Jews never received compensation for the confiscation of the land under the destroyed cemetery, upon which now partially rests Greece's largest university, Aristotle University, which also used Jewish gravestones as building material for its long-coveted expansion finally made possible by the dispossession and annihilation of the city's Jews. In 2014, 72 years after the cemetery's destruction and appropriation, a small memorial was established on campus grounds to acknowledge the Jewish cemetery the school is built on and with; the ceremony just 10 years ago involved the first-ever acknowledgement of the atrocities and apology from a Thessaloniki mayor. The memorial has been vandalised multiple times since its establishment.

[marandsviet]

Dutch Miku

[havewereadthis]

"Written in the third century B.C., this epic story of one of the most beloved heroes of Greek mythology, with its combination of the fantastical and the real, its engagement with traditions of science, astronomy and medicine, winged heroes, and a magical vessel that speaks, is truly without parallel in classical or contemporary Greek literature."

[kurj]

she loves her octopus jar!!

i had to draw her again lol - here's my first drawing of her (click) and more of my minoan art (click)

[definitely-totally-croatia]

Official "Croatia is declaring war on Greece" post (/mj)

Reason:

Greece has sent me to Serbia, shot me with olives, and insulted my parents

Extra notes:

Croatia is now having a villain arc.

-Vesna

[the-galactic-catt]

unpopular opinion apparently but i don't think you need to be an expert in ww2 history in order to understand that writing gods from an ancient religion being involved with nazis is a very offensive thing to do

[keirahknightley]

Remembering the opening ceremony of athens 2004 💙🤍💙🤍

And because i know many of you were babies then (some even not born 😅) here is a link to watch the full ceremony. I promise it's worth it 💖💖

[fairytaleprincessart]