Modern Greece

GREEK CULTURE

  Greek Ministry of Culture

http://www.culture.gr/

 

Cultural Guide & Events

http://www.cultureguide.gr/events/catindex.jsp?catA=3

 

Dimitria Festival, Thessaloniki

http://www.cultureguide.gr/events/details.jsp?Event_id=40256&catA=11

 

Greek Costumes from Antiquity to the Present

http://www.annaswebart.com/culture/costhistory/

 

 

CULTURAL TRENDS, 1945-2000

 

1945-1950

http://www.ime.gr/chronos/15/en/1945_1950/03.html

 

1950-1960

Literary Trends

http://www.ime.gr/chronos/15/en/1950_1960/05.html

 

Popular Songs

http://www.ime.gr/chronos/15/en/1950_1960/06.html

 

1960-1970

Literature

http://www.ime.gr/chronos/15/en/1960_1970/05.html

 

Music & TV

http://www.ime.gr/chronos/15/en/1960_1970/06.html

 

 

1970-1980

Liberating Nature of Art

http://www.ime.gr/chronos/15/en/1970_1980/05.html

 

Literature

http://www.ime.gr/chronos/15/en/1970_1980/06.html

 

1980-1990

Cinema, Decline

http://www.ime.gr/chronos/15/en/1980_1990/06.html

 

Literature

http://www.ime.gr/chronos/15/en/1980_1990/05.html

 

1990-2000

 

General Trends

http://www.ime.gr/chronos/15/en/1990_2000/04.html

 

GREEK LITERATURE

Hellenic Authors' Society

http://www.dedalus.gr/

 

Biographies, Overview

http://www.thatsgreece.com/online/section.asp?section=60

 

Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies

http://www.snhell.gr/english.html

Hellenic Literary Society

http://www.eel.org.gr/

 

Philology, Pagina Philogiae

http://www.philology.gr/

 

Greek Language Portal

http://www.komvos.edu.gr/

 

Nikos Kazantzakis

 

Biography & Links

http://www.interkriti.org/culture/kazantzakis/kazantz2.htm

 

Life & Works

http://world.phantis.com/bastouni.get?cs=iso8859-

 

Anthology of Works

http://durabond.ca/gdouridas/kazanzakis.html

 

Andreas Empeirikos

http://www.embiricos2001.gr/intro2.htm

 

Nikos Eggonopoulos

http://www.engonopoulos.gr/_homeEN/

 

POETRY

Modern Greek Poetry

http://genesis.ee.auth.gr/dimakis/poetry.html

 

Journals on Greek Poetry

http://genesis.ee.auth.gr/dimakis/greekpoetransl.html

 

Constantine Kavafy

Biography & Poems in Greek

http://filosofia.itgo.com/kavafis.htm

 

Poems in Greek & English Translation

http://users.hol.gr/~barbanis/cavafy/

 

Poems in English

http://cavafis.compupress.gr/index2.htm

 

George Seferis

Biography

http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1963/seferis-bio.html

 

Nobel Prize in Literature 1963

http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1963/press.html

 

Nobel Lecture

http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1963/seferis-lecture.html

 

Nobel Banquet Speech, Dec. 10, 1963

http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1963/seferis-speech.html

 

Documentary

http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1963/seferis-docu.html

 

Poems in Greek

http://www.manthos.gr/seferis/index.htm

 

Constantinos Karyotakis

Biography

http://filosofia.itgo.com/biografia.htm#???G??F??

 

Poems in Greek

http://filosofia.itgo.com/poihmata.htm

 

Other Works

http://filosofia.itgo.com/peza.htm

 

Odysseas Elytis

Overview

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/gkouts/

 

Biography

http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1979/elytis-bio.html

 

Nobel Prize for Literature 1979, Press Release

http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1979/press.html

 

Nobel Prize in Literature 1979, Presentation

http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1979/presentation-speech.html

 

Nobel Lecture, Dec. 8, 1979

http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1979/elytis-lecture.html

 

Axion Esti, Poem
http://durabond.ca/gdouridas/axionEsti.html

 

Asma Eroiko kai Penthimo Gia ton Chameno Anthypolochago tes Albanias, Poem

http://durabond.ca/gdouridas/elytis.html

 

Yiannis Ritsos

Overview

http://www.mpa.gr/specials/ritsos/

 

Selected Poems in Greek

http://www.mpa.gr/specials/ritsos/epilogi.htm

 

Nikos Gatsos

Life & Selected Poems in Greek

http://arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr/arkadia/culture/personalities/gatsos.htm#links

 

Costas Varnalis

Selected Poems in Greek

http://durabond.ca/gdouridas/barnalis.html

Maria Polydouri

  Life, Poems & other Works

http://www.geocities.com/mpolidouri/Polidouri.html

 

Myrtiotissa, Thoeni Drakopoulou-Pappa

  Life, Poems & other Works

http://www.geocities.com/theomyrtia/mirtiotissa.html

 

General on Poetry

Poets' Corner

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/index.html

 
GREEK MUSIC

Selected Biographies

http://www.thatsgreece.com/online/section.asp?section=62

 

Lilian Voudouri Music Library

http://www.mmb.org.gr/Page/

 

The Athens Concert Hall

http://www.megaron.gr/

 

Rebetika

Rebetiko Overview & Data base, in Greek

http://www.rebetiko.gr/INDEX.ASP

 

Rebetiko Overview & Data Base in English

http://www.rebetiko.gr/EN/INDEX.ASP

 

Rebetika, Hydra Conference Report, October 2003

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:Oolwx6niwVAJ:

 

Vasilis Tsitsanis

http://www.tsitsanis.gr/en/main.htm

 

Rebetisses

Sotiria Belou

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/bellou.html

 

Sotiria Belou, In Greek

http://www.servitoros.gr/prosopa/view1.php/7/53

 

Rosa Eskenazi

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/roza.html

 

Marika Ninou

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/ninou.html

 

Ioanna Yeorgakopoulou

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/ioanna.html

 

Rita Abatzi

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/rita.html

 

Rena Stamou

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/rena.html

 

Stella Haskil

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/stella.html

 

Yorgia Mitaki

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/mitaki.html

 

Anna Chrysafi

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/anna.html

 

Marika Frantzeskopoulou—‘I Politissa'

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/politissa.html

 

Marika Papariga

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/papagika.html

 

Daizy Stavropoulou

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/daizy.html

 

Sofia Karivali

http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/sofia.html

 

 

GREEK DANCE

 

Greek Dance, Historical Overview

http://www.annaswebart.com/culture/dancehistory/introduction.html

 

CINEMA

Selected Biographies

http://www.thatsgreece.com/online/section.asp?section=64

 

Greek Film Center

http://www.gfc.gr/6/64/643/contents.html

 

Thessaloniki Film Festival

http://www.filmfestival.gr/index_uk.htm

 

Thessaloniki Cinema Museum

http://www.cinemuseum.gr/

 

LIBRARIES & ARCHIVES

National Documentation Center

http://www.ekt.gr/en/index.html

 

The Hellenic Literary & Historical Archive

http://www.elia.org.gr/default.fds?langid=2

 

Gennadius Library

http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/gennadius/g_index.htm

 

Athens College Library

http://www.haef.gr/haef/american/libraries/acl/index_eng.html

 

Athens School of fine Arts library

http://www.library.asfa.gr/english/index.html

 

Myriobiblos Library of the Church of Greece

http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/index_en.html

 

Directory of Libraries, Universities & Institutions

http://world.phantis.com/bastouni.get?cs=iso8859-

 

INSTITUTES & RESEARCH CENTERS

Lambrakis Research Foundation

http://www.lrf.gr/english_new/abc.html

 

The National Hellenic Research Foundation

http://www.eie.gr/eie-english.htm

 

ELIAMEP

http://www.eliamep.gr/

 

Hellenic Center for European Studies

http://www.ekem.gr/frames_en.html

 

 

Institute for Balkan Studies

http://www.hyper.gr/imxa/

 

Panteion Institute of International Relations

http://www.panteion.gr/gr/new/

 

 

FOUNDATIONS

Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation

http://www.onassis.gr/english/main/index.html

 

Foundation of the Hellenic World

http://www.ime.gr/

 

Foundations for Hellenic Culture

http://www.foundationhellenicculture.com/

 

Damianos Foundation

http://www.cfhdf.gr/contents_en.htm

 

Eleftherios Venizelos National Research Foundation

http://www.venizelos-foundation.gr/

Constantine G. Karamanlis Foundation

http://www.karamanlis-foundation.gr/en/index.html

 

Andreas G. Papandreou Foundation

http://www.agp.gr/english/about/index.stm

 

Constantinos K. Mitsotakis Foundation

http://www.ikm.gr/

 

 

THE GREEKS AND THE SEA

The Greeks and the Sea, Historical Overview

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:f7BBI2OAqKQJ:

 

The Greek Maritime Spirit

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:BLRkJt0MBPAJ

 

History of Greek Shipping

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:pgfUbdWpqMwJ:

 

Merchant Marine Academies

http://www.lib.yen.gr/aen/main/home.htm

 

Ministry of Mercantile Marine

http://egov.yen.gr/eng/

 

Maritime Museums

Hellenic Maritime Museum

http://www.greece.org/poseidon/work/museums/hmm/index.html

 

Aegean Maritime Museum

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:BHi5AmjpdvEJ:www.

 

Nautical Museum of Galaxidi

http://www.culture.gr/4/42/421/42104/42104c/e42104c1.html

 

THE ENVIRONMENT

Thalassa, the Greek Sea

http://www.thalassa.gr/2001/home.html

 

Clean Up Greece

http://www.cleanupgreece.org.gr/site.asp?id=332

 

HELMEPA, Save the Greek Seas

http://www.helmepa.gr/index1.htm

 

Zakynthos Environmental Center

http://www.kpezakyn.gr/index_en.htm

 

 

GREEK MUSEUMS

 

Note: Archaeological Museums are listed in the Classical World.

 

Athinais, Pierides Museum

http://www.culture.gr/2/21/toc/museums.html

 

 

Benaki Museum

http://www.benaki.gr/index-en.htm

 

National Art Gallery

http://www.nationalgallery.gr/e214061m.html

 

National Museum of Contemporary Art

http://www.culture.gr/2/22/225/22519/e225190a.html

 

Museum of Popular Instruments

http://www.culture.gr/4/42/421/42109/e4210901.html

 

Numismatic Museum

http://www.culture.gr/2/21/214/21401m/e21401m.html

 

Folk Art

Museum of Greek Folk Art

http://www.culture.gr/4/42/421/42101/42101t/e42101a.html

 

Center for the Study of Traditional Pottery

http://www.culture.gr/4/42/421/42101/4210101/e421a021.html

 

Frontzos Museum of Epirus ' Folk Art

http://www.culture.gr/2/21/213/21306m/e213fn07.html

 

Karaghiozis, Spathareion Museum of Shadow Theater

http://www.culture.gr/4/42/422/42202/42202q/e42202q1.html

 

 

Historical Museums

 

National Historical Museum

http://www.culture.gr/4/42/421/42103/42103e/e42103e1.html

 

Historical Museum of Crete

http://www.culture.gr/4/42/421/42103/42103b/e42103b1.html

 

Thessaloniki Museum of Macedonian Struggle

http://www.culture.gr/4/42/421/42103/42103a/e42103a1.html

 

 

The Jewish Museum

 

The Jewish Museum of Greece , CBJCB

http://www.jewishmuseum.gr/

 

The Jewish Museum of Greece , HMC

http://www.culture.gr/4/42/422/42202/42202s/e42202s1.html

 

 

CROSS CULTURAL HORIZONS

 

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

http://www.bibalex.org/newwebsite/English/index.aspx

 

Aegean Center for the Fine Arts, Paros-Tuscany

http://www.aegeancenter.org/frontpage.html

 

 

The Greeks of Southern Italy

 

“Griko'-- Greek Language in Calabria

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:p7QZJHqe

 

Greek Musical Tradition in South Italy

http://www.rootsworld.com/griko/

 

The Greeks of Calabria

http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?ei=UTF-

 

 

Forgotten Peoples

 

Indigenous People Literature

http://www.indigenouspeople.net/ipl_final.html