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El Greco – Greek Painter

Who was El Greco?

by on Jun 21, 2010 in Famous Greeks, Greek Culture

“El Greco” was a 16th – early 17th century artist born in the city known today as Heraklion, Crete. Coming from a wealthy and prominent family, El Greco trained to be an icon-maker as a child in Crete. His interest in art did not stop there. As a young man in his 20′s, El Greco [...]

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8 Easy Steps to Writing Greek in Windows

by on Jun 18, 2010 in Greek Language, How To

One of the questions we get a lot is: How can we type in Greek fonts on a Windows machine? Here are the 8-simple steps you need to follow on a Windows machine: Step 1 Go to Start, Control Panel, Region and Language Step 2 Click on the Keyboards and Languages tab and then Change [...]

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Modern Greek Studies at the University of Illinois

by on Jun 09, 2010 in Greek Culture, Greek Language

The following is a brief description of the recently-established Greek-Studies program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We would like to thank Konstantino Yfanti for bringing this to our attention. This is indeed a worthy cause and we encourage everyone to support their effort. Established in 2008, the program in Modern Greek Studies at [...]

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The fall of Greeklish!

by on Jun 08, 2010 in Greek Language, Modern Greek

I was searching around for a definition of Greeklish and, as usual, wikipedia came to the rescue. According to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeklish article: Greeklish, a portmanteau of the words Greek and English, also known as Grenglish, Latinoellinika/Λατινοελληνικά or ASCII Greek, is Greek language written with the Latin alphabet. Unlike standardized systems of Romanization of Greek, as [...]

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Greek Bouzouki Master

by on Jun 05, 2010 in Greek Music

Greek music has a long and glorious history. In one of my other posts, I will go into the origins and evolution of Greek music. But this post is about a different topic…The Greek Bouzouki! The musical instrument that, in my mind, expresses the essence of the Greek spirit! Contrary to popular belief, the Greek [...]

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Six step recipe for making gyros!

by on Jun 03, 2010 in Greek Cooking

It’s not often that I come across an original Greek recipe for gyros. My dad used to work at a local Chicago meat-market that specialized in the mass production and distribution of gyro. He’s told me many horror-stories of how the meat was processed and converted into the compressed cones of meat one typically finds [...]

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Letting go, looking good and holding on: Discovering a new tradition in Greek dance.

by on May 31, 2010 in Greek Dance

Note: This article was written by Alex and featured in the Winter 2009 edition of Greek Circle Magazine. Reprinted with permission. Most people have heard the phrase “dance like no one is watching.” It encourages a person to let go of inhibitions, disregard surroundings and enjoy dancing for dancing’s sake. For us Greeks, however, dancing [...]

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History of Greektionary.com

by on May 28, 2010 in General, Greek Language

I distinctly remember the day when Adoni K. (one of the three co-creators of Greektionary.com) conveyed to us his vision of a website that would attempt to teach the Greek language to all interested parties in an intuitive and enjoyable manner. Pete H. (the other co-creator) and I, were instantly persuaded to go along for [...]

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What is Modern Greek?

by on May 27, 2010 in Ancient Greek, Modern Greek

We looked around for a while before we all agreed on what a decent definition of Modern Greek was. In any case, the following excerpt was something that sounded plausible. We would be interested to hear your opinions on the matter. “Modern Greek stems directly from the Attic kini and dates from the fall of [...]

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