“Any debt Greece may be in now is as nothing compared to the debt we owe Greece”
— Stephen Fry*
In recent years, the name ‘Greece’ has had negative connotations: debt, austerity, recession, political failure, and social deprivation. But the present is only a slender time-slice in Greece’s long history, and Greece has been and remains the source of many riches of thought, art, culture, and landscape. Directly or indirectly, this heritage has shaped and enriched the lives of us all, and on this website people who love Greece — philhellenes in the simple sense — celebrate what Greece has given them and the world.
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30 April 2018
David D. Pearce served as U.S. ambassador to Greece from 2013 to 2016. In this guest post for Philhellenes, he
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11 January 2017
At Christmas, the season of giving just past, my thoughts quite naturally turned to my Greek friends, both those on
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5 January 2017
Marjory McGinn is a Scottish-born journalist and author, who has had a long connection with Greece, starting with a youthful
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12 December 2016
Anne Cooke is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Applied Psychology at Christ Church Canterbury University. Anne's webpage. Follow
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20 September 2013
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As a philosopher of cognitive science, I take a
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20 April 2013
The photographer Giorgos Vitsaropoulos has kindly given me permission to reproduce one of his photographs of the new Acropolis Museum in
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19 April 2013
Howard Wettstein and his wife took a vacation in Greece in 2008, and he has kindly sent me some photos
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19 April 2013
Istvan Aranyosi writes:
"As a kid, in the 1980s, I was known to my parents’ entourage as a Greek geek,
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14 February 2013
Jenny Saul writes: "My son Theo was buried in the sand for the first (and surely not the last!) time
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14 February 2013
Diana Probst is a professional artist based in Cambridge, UK. Diana has kindly given me permission to reproduce some of
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31 August 2012
Charles Fernyhough
The goddess Athena sprang, fully armed, from a bump on her father’s head. Other versions of the myth associate
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29 August 2012
My passion for Greece began the day I first went on holiday there 30 years ago, and has intensified ever
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11 April 2012
Stuart Franklin is a world-famous, award-winning photographer, and former president of Magnum Photos. He has kindly given me permission to
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13 March 2012
Stephen Fry is, in his own words, 'a philhellene who believes that any debt Greece may be in now is
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14 April 2018
Traveller, writer, and soldier Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died in 2011, was an almost legendary figure among philhellenes. Writing in
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7 May 2016
The term ‘philhellenes’, which been adopted to characterize this site and its contributors, is used here in its literal (and
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29 December 2012
The 28th of October is a public holiday in Greece, known as Ochi Day. It commemorates the day in 1940 when Mussolini's ambassador
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10 September 2012
The School of European Education in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, belongs to the European Schools network, and provides primary and secondary
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16 March 2012
In a piece in yesterday's Guardian newspaper Jon Henley reports on how cutbacks to Greek health services have led to
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* Email to site editor, dated 12/03/12
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