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Press Release: LORD BYRON, HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE INDEPENDENCE OF GREECE

The Society for Hellenism and Philhellenism in cooperation with the British Embassy, organizes an event LORD BYRON: HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE INDEPENDENCE OF GREECE H.E. the President of the Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos will honour the…

ToposText: Tools for a Restless Traveler

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This essay first appear in Athens Insider (Spring 2019). Republished in EEF with the author’s permission. My father loved fine tools. Like many of the thousands of books on his shelves, his lathe and his Uzi were more a projection…

VOLTA – 12 August 2019

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Subject of an article published in VOLTA magazine: "Philhellenism in France and its influence on music and the arts during the Revolution of 1821" Read the post

National Herald – 22 March 2019

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The American Philhellenism and Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe Read the publication

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