#famous greeks

[gemsofgreece]

Famous Greeks who fought in the Greek resistance against the Axis Powers in WWII

Odysseus Elytis (middle): The nobelist poet served as a second lieutenant in the Greek frontline. After a few months he contracted a severe case of typhus, so he had to be hospitalized. He recovered and a lot of his future poetic work was inspired by the war.

Nikephoros Vrettakos (standing on the right in the first picture): The poet and author fought in the frontline in 1940 and almost got killed in Klisura. After his regiment was dissolved, he joined EAM / ELAS (Greek People's Liberation Army) and continued fighting until 1944.

Nikos Kavvadias (seated): Well known for his poetry inspired by his adventures in the sea, the sailor rarely wrote prose, but when he did, it was usually inspired by his days in land fighting in the war.

Many other poets also fought in the war. Ángelos Sikelianós volunteered to join the army, but he was rejected because he was 56 years old at the time.

Rebetiko and Laiko musicians and composers Markos Vamvakaris and Vassilis Tsitsanis also went to war. Tsitsanis entrusted his buzuki instrument with his mother and promised to return to take it back.

Painter Yannis Tsaruhis also fought in the Albanian frontline (Italy invaded Albania and then marched from Albania into Greece, Greece halted them there and then counterattacked, pushing the Italian forces back, which is why a lot of the war during 1940-1941 took place in the Albanian mountains). Tsaruhis heard that a soldier had a vision of Virgin Mary. He immediatedly made this religious icon, using a kipper can as a canvas and he named it "Η Παναγιά της Νίκης" (i panayá tis níkis, the Blessed Virgin of Victory). The paint had not even dried before a rumour was spread in the camp that the icon was supposedly miraculous.

Comedian Dinos Iliópulos, was a Greek of Alexandria, born and raised in Egypt. He completed his millitary service in Greece, even though he was an expat , so it was entirely optional for him. He had returned to his home in Egypt for just one day after finishing his service, when he heard of the bad news. He left immediately, returned to Greece and joined the army.

Lambros Konstandaras (centered in the left picture): the great actor volunteered to join the army and fought in the frontline. At some point he was severely injured in the head and the hip. He was rescued by the aforementioned poet Odysseus Elytis! After his recovery, he insisted on returning to the battlefield, but he was prevented from doing this. He was suffering from his wounds for the rest of his life, although his vibrant charisma and talent in cinema and theatre never allowed anyone to see this.

Kostas Hatzichristos (right picture): the hysterical comedian originally dreamed of a military profession, so when the war broke out, he joined the army and fought passionately. However, his days in the army were crazy. He was in the northern front and soon his legs developed frostbite. At some point he was sent to serve in a military hospital. Next to it was a cafe owned by an Albanian man and his sister Orhana. Hatzichristos, a notorious womanizer, fancied Orhana and provided supplies to her constantly and made her other favours as well. At some point Orhana disappeared. Hatzichristos found out she was collaborating with the Italians and was giving them all the supplies he was providing her! He became the target of a lot of mockery in the Greek camp. He was moved to regiments on the rear and then he had a lieutenant who just did.not.like.him and bullied him constantly. Once, Hatzichristos stumbled upon Italian soldiers trying to flee during his patrol. The lieutenant screamed at him to shoot them but Hatzichristos saw how young they were and how they were begging for mercy by crying out “Fratello, fratello” (brother in Italian) and felt sorry for them. He did not obey the lieutenant's order. The lieutenant was furious. Hatzichristos fetched them in front of him and said: "You kill them, since you are the tough guy". Hatzichristos always had a way to deliver lines and the lieutenant broke in laughter. He was so amused that he agreed to spare the lives of the Italians. He knew that an Italian regiment would pass from that point in a few hours, so they tied the two Italians in a tree, placed a little canned food next to them and left them there to be found by their own people once they passed.

Famous movie and theatre actor Dionysis Papayannópulos participated in important battles in extreme conditions in the mountains. He said that the battles lasted so long that when they ran out of bullets, they would keep fighting with sticks and stones. During the Axis occupation of Greece, Papayannópulos resumed his job as an actor in the theatre. One night, Max Merten, the Kriegsverwaltungsrat of the occupational forces in Thessaloniki, attempted to meet Papayannopulos at his dressing room in order to congratulate him on his performance. The actor refused to open the door and receive him. Merten was responsible for the deportation of the 50,000 Jews of Thessaloniki.

The great theatre actor Manos Katrakis (center) fought in the frontline and saw his commander commit suicide before his eyes when they were caught and disarmed by the enemy.

Sources:

Eleftheros Typos, through Lavart

thessalonikiartsandculture.gr

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Spartorama

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[whowouldwininafite]

#who would win in a fite #polls #stitch #lilo and stitch #diogenes #famous Greeks #historical figures

[amiti-art]

Apollo and Asclepius

At first I wanted to draw Apollo hugging Asclepius' dead body for the last piece but I realized that there would be no body left after a mortal who was struck by Zeus' lightning 😔.

(The hair band survived because it was gift from Apollo and therefore made from the same devine material gods' clothes are made. Before he got this one, Asclepius was always accidentally tearing or losing the previous ones so Apollo wanted to give him one that could not be destroyed so easily)

#despite being Apollo's most famous child Asclepius is criminally underrated #Apollo #Asclepius #Asklepios #greek gods #greek pantheon #greek myth #greek mythology #dadpollo #apollogists #toa #my art #art #mythological

[miroana]

“It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially” (Tartt, 31).

I am absolutely fascinated by the fame and reverence this quote from the Secret History has achieved. It terrifies me. Let me explain.

Who’s line is this? Oh, yes. Professor Julian Morrow. Julian, in his lecture on how death begets beauty, on how Dionysian madness lends immortality. Julian, who isolates the greek class, buries them in the glories of the past and in their privilege, and submerges them beneath illusions until his students can’t tell right from wrong and real from imagined.

These words are satire. This is NOT a lesson any teacher should impart, and should NOT be beloved and relatable. In one sentence, Donna Tartt summarizes the entire cautionary tale of the novel: the selective, warped, and obsessive view on life the greek class held, born from entitlement and cultivated by Julian, led the students to tear themselves to pieces.

What’s more, the way people quote it all the time makes this line all the more haunting. Widespread parroting of Julian’s teachings only reinforces Donna’s themes: human minds are easily manipulatable, it can be hard to think critically about what you are taught and what you read, and that the easy, self-assured conviction belonging to the reader that, “I, personally, would have behaved differently than Henry, Richard, Francis, Camilla, Charles, and Bunny” is nothing but another illusion.

#“rip to the greek class but I’m different” no you’re not #it’s so funny to me how famous this specific quote is bc people love it for one of three reasons (all equally comical): #A. they have not read the novel and thought the words were pretty (so true but honestly still concerning) #B. they read the novel but took julian’s words at face value and think him brilliant #(this category of people would end up helping henry push bunny into a ravine 100%) #or C. they read the novel and understand well the satirical nature of this quote. #despite this knowledge the act of deeply obsessing over narrow ideas is too tempting to not do it anyways (calling myself out) #congrats! by reading this you now belong to category C #henry winter #richard papen #francis abernathy #charles macaulay #camilla macaulay #bunny corcoran #julian morrow #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt

[sporesgalaxy]

this is my new au where Philips sibling survives that fight and then gleefully transes her gender

edit: changed my mind. this is my new AU where Philip never makes it to the Boiling Isles and his sibling gleefully transes her gender

#circe clawthorne #spacecreate #toh #DID YOU KNOW THAT NOT ONLY IS CIRCE A FAMOUS GREEK MYTHOLOGY SORCEROUS BUT ALSO HER NAME MEANS BIRD #i know how to spell sorceress i just got excited

[gotstabbedbyapen]

Someone: Persephone is Demeter's only child. That's just facts. Despoina, Iacchus, Arion, Philomelos, Plutus: You are not only a clown, you're the entire fucking circus.

#persephone #demeter #despoina #iacchus #arion #philomelos #plutus #incorrect greek mythology quote #incorrect greek mythology #incorrect greek gods #yes Persephone is Demeter's most famous child but she's not the only one #do some research please it only takes like two minutes

[duskydrawings]

my bestie @bluegekk0 bribed me with burger money for this drawing of our shrimps together (real)

#dusky.art #hk pale king #men kissing #pale king #homoerotic amputation #learning to love yourself is a daunting and difficult process especially if you have committed heinous crimes against your kin #also you are divorced #alas. what is a hamster/silverfish hybrid to do? #as famous greek philosopher aristotle once so wisely put it; you must love the dumpster-diving non-fruity version of yourself #before you can begin to love others #can i get an amen 😇🙏

[venusianc0mplex]

Children of Hermes

Children of Hermes are made of pure wits and humor, they are people's people, always on the go and living their lives to their fullest. They are also friendly people, people’s people, and they have the ability to be able to fit in with anyone, any group of people with ease. Master networkers and fun-loving people by nature. They love to attend a good party and to throw a good party. Their lives are the definition of work hard play hard.

Below are the gifts and challenges of the Children of Hermes.

Gifts:

1. Natural networkers and extremely good talkers, they tend to know exactly what to say and what not to say in any given situation

2. A lot of the Hermes’ sons are lovely short kings (depending on what is considered short for people of their ethnicity)

3. They are gifted with intellect and the strong value for hard work, they tend to get ahead in life with the combination of those two qualities

4. They are usually the top earners in their industry

5. Gifted gamers

6. Extremely good talkers if I haven't emphasized that already

7. Extremely gifted in learning foreign languages (have no problem becoming fluent in 6-7 languages)

8. Learns faster than other people their age

9. Extremely good at conveying their emotions through words

10. Gifted with the ability to adapt into any culture with ease

11. Very, VERY good businessmen

12. They can talk themselves in and out of anything

13. Great teachers that get to the point in a fast and straightforward way

14. Multi-talented and very gifted in multiple fields

15. Blessed with talented and/or very supportive parents

Common Themes Among Children of Hermes

1. They are forced to help out their family with business-related matters starting from a young age

2. Their parents expose them to the risks and gains of running a business starting from a young age

3. Realists

4. Extremely hard workers that will put in any amount of work to harbor the result they want in life

5. Go-getters

6. Very-likeable in a social setting

7. They rarely ever open up to people emotionally

8. Can be clingy to their closest friends

9. They are strict with themselves and others

10. They have high-standards regarding their quality of work

11. Affinity towards opening up their own business

12. They usually get along with their family very well

13. They have a lot of options when it comes to romantic love but they struggle to settle with one person

14. They usually travel a lot for work or wants to work overseas

15. They understand the value of every $$$

16. They are either generous or very obviously stingy to their friends

17. They make friends in a new setting very quickly

18. They don't mind befriending the person no one else wants to talk to

19. They want everyone to get along with each other because they are always trying to get along well with people around them

20. Calculative by nature

21. Usually have prominent sidereal Virgo and/or sidereal Gemini placements in their astrology chart, or they have Mercury Atmakaraka

22. People who have a stronger spirit guide or guardian deity of a non-Greek origin tend to be adopted by Hermes

Challenges Faced by Children of Hermes

1. They are often pushed to work to the point where they don't get enough sleep and suffer badly from health/mental health issues

2. Very picky by nature

3. Sometimes they are not honest enough with people closest to them because they don't want to see the other person unhappy because of what they said

4. Dishonesty stemmed from people-pleasing tendencies

5. Over-calculative to make up for a deep sense of instability if they had financial trauma

6. Overly-talkative

7. Unable to give emotional support because they don't know how to be there emotionally for themselves

8. Over-rationalization of their emotions

9. Avoidance of their own emotions by burying themselves with work

10. Prone to cheating because they don't want to have the difficult conversations with their partner

11. Immaturity that stemmed from the avoidance of their own emotions

12. Not the most gifted people when it comes to height

13. Inability to settle down with one partner even if they do want monogamy deep down

14. Flighty and indecisive

15. Bottling all their struggles inside of them and cope in extremely unhealthy ways

16. Sometimes they want to get along with everyone so badly they end up keeping some really bad friends around them

17. Lying about their situation and it becomes a regular habit of theirs for them to get what they want

18. Gets bored easily

I hope this helped you understand the children of this fun, witty, kind, and loving trickster god a bit better. Feel free to shoot me a question anytime.

Disclaimer: Everything written above stemmed from my own observations, I'm not claiming to be 100% accurate on everything









#hermes #greek gods #greek mythology #deity work #spirituality #hellenic gods #hellenism #deity worship #hermes greek god #children of hermes #records #observations #Based off of my own observations of famous people and people around me #personality traits #astrology #astroblr #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo

[temeyes]

Apologies for the spam likes!

Your art is just very edible :)

GreekMyth!Ghost has literally consumed all space in my head for the past day

Yippee

nah, you're cool bestie. no sweat!! and aww, thank you!! i hope you eat well whenever you see my stuff!!

and yeSSS, HAHAHA glad ya like my take on Greek Myth!Ghost!! (even tho i feel like he looks/sounds ooc in that piece lolz!!!!)

rambling now: BUT ever since i came across those greek myth!au fics for the cod boys?? the itch in my greek mythology-engrossed brain? super duper SCRATCHED!!

i actually have more greek myth!au ideas for the boys. tho it's mostly for GhostSoap. ONCE I HAVE FREE TIME NEXT WEEK, i promise i'll draw and post them HSAHSHASH

#hope those fic writers that wrote those greek myth!aus i've been reading recently know that i Owe them my LIFE #i've read the famous love stories of greek mythology so many times that i literally envision GhostSoap or them separately for all of those. #i remembered the story of Pygmalion and Galatea again the other day and MANNNNN it was so good. i wanna read it again LMAO #answered asks #moth-in-a-mason-jar

[gemsofgreece]

“Once more — the magic of the Greek islands and her people have captured my heart. Thank you all for your gracious welcome. Until next time…antio sas 🙏 photo by @keelyshayebrosnan” - piercebrosnanofficial

Just Pierce Brosnan being a lovely man as usual.

#greece #pierce brosnan #hollywood #famous people #greek islands #always ever heard the best about him

[fitsofgloom]

The Graven & The Famous

#famous legends book 1 #jdm preshous #robert ayton #ladybird books #greek mythology #myths fables and legends #1975

[rutadales]

hadestown is so good not because everyone dies, but because at the end someone stands up and goes alright, let's try again. There was love and that love mattered, so let's try again. Let's see if the love changes anything this time. Let's see the world as it could be. a love song for anyone who tries.

#root talks #delete later #kills me every time #hadestown is a tragedy that knows its a tragedy #it's based on one of the most famous Greek myths #you know how it ends. and yet. #there's hope there that it might turn out different this time. and that means it's worth trying #and it KILLS me #Also god. can't believe the Broadway version removed the line #''a love song for anyone who tries'' #ARGH. whatever #Rip ''orpheus you're shivering'' and ''a love song for anyone who tries''

[alatismeni-theitsa]

One man: A dozen voices of Greek singers!

#if you want a masterpost of famous male singing voices that's it! #greek music

[blee-bleep]

read it read it read it

#erehisu #eh fanfics my beloved you will always be famous #u ever just read a fanfic and it changed ur brain chemistry forever? yeah #historia with mommy issues my beloved #historia with religious/greek imagery and symbolism my fucking beloved

[vaguelyhumanshapedbeing]

I fucking love Diogenes so much. Whenever people talk about Greek philosophy it’s always the image of the “wise strong man in the toga preaching in his marble college to a gathering of men who look like younger versions of himself, debating the meaning of life and always maintaining the utmost sophistication and civility,” but then there’s Diogenes. My main man lived in a barrel in the marketplace, with a wooden bowl being his only possession (until he got rid of it because he saw a child drink water with his hands), and frequently pissed, defecated, and masturbated in public. But on the other hand, he was still a genius philosopher, frequently standing head to head with all sorts of major names in Greek philosophy. It’s like seeing a homeless man in the streets of San Francisco wearing the most disheveled outfit imagineable walking around casually deciphering the meaning of life and human existence, then promptly pissing on passerby. Just an absolute wild gigachad.

#diogenes #greek philosophy #ancient greece #not to mention that when he died his last requests were to just be thrown into the woods #history #greece #of course the famous featherless biped story is also just gold #the man was wild

[mousmoula]

zeus giving birth to athena

#i made this joke on discord and then realised it's too good #i need to set it free in the wild #duolingo widget you will always be famous #(and by famous i mean you keep traumatising me in horrific ways) #anyway duolingo rendition of greek myths when