Giorgos Seferis: The First Greek Poet to Win the Nobel Prize
On December 10, 1963, Greek diplomat and poet Giorgos Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by King Gustav of Sweden. Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
View ArticleKostas Georgakis, the Student Who Set Himself on Fire for Greece
Kostas Georgakis, a Greek geology student who was attending university in Italy, set himself on fire in Genoa on September 19, 1970 as a protest against the Greek military dictatorship of the time. The...
View ArticleWhen Greek Police Could Arrest Young Men for Being “Teddy Boys”
Members of the underground subculture inspired by rock and roll and American and English fashions, called “Teddy Boys,” once risked being arrested for their lifestyle in Greece. Greece’s post-war...
View ArticleHow the Athens Polytechnic Uprising Ideals Lost their Glow
The Athens Polytechnic uprising anniversary on November 17 against the military dictatorship in Greece has lost its glow and it is often marred by clashes between police and extreme left groups. In...
View ArticleAthens Polytechnic Uprising: How Brave Students Rebelled Against the Junta
The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred on November 17, 1973 as a massive student demonstration of the popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The uprising that began on November...
View ArticleThousands March in Athens for Polytechnic Uprising Anniversary
Thousands of people marched through Athens Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising against the military dictatorship on November 17,1973. More than 5,000 police were deployed to...
View ArticleChristos Sartzetakis, Former President of Greece, Dies at 93
Christos Sartzetakis, a former president of Greece, died on Thursday at an Athens hospital where he had been treated for pneumonia. He was 93. He was a Greek jurist and former supreme justice of the...
View ArticleApril 21, 1967: Military Junta Places Greece in Shackles
On April 21st, 1967, Greece woke up with a military junta taking over power and putting the country in shackles for seven years Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
View ArticleA CIA Officer’s Daughter Remembers the 1967 Greek Coup
By Leslie Absher Just prior to the 1967 Greek coup, fifty-five years ago, I arrived in Athens with my mother and CIA father. He was a young officer and Greece was his first field assignment. I was a...
View ArticleKaramanlis: The Leader Who Dominated Post-World War II Greece
Karamanlis, who passed away on April 23, 1998 at the age of 91, was the man chosen to pull Greece out of 7 years of a dictatorship in 1974. Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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