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Reading Greece2 days ago
📚📚Under the motto 'Created by HumA(I)ns’, the 21st Thessaloniki Book Fair / Διεθνής Έκθεση Βιβλίου Θεσσαλονίκης will take place from 8-11 May 2025 with Italy as the guest of honour!

Thessaloniki International Book Fair is one of the country's most important and internationally recognized cultural institutions, organized for the first time this year by the Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture (HFBC), the new book organization. HFBC was founded in 2024 aiming to promote Greek literature in Greece and abroad, focusing on books as an educational, cultural and recreational medium, while promoting Greek culture and the Greek language internationally.

For more info 👉https://www.thessalonikibookfair.gr/new/31

HFBC Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Βιβλίου και Πολιτισμού
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Reading Greece6 days ago
📚📚Easter holds a special place in the heart of Greek people, and has been the theme of many poems by significant Greek poets, among which Odysseas Elytis.

In his “Journal of an unseen April”, Elytis refers to the Holy Week. Easter is the crisis and the climax of the Journal. It is a period of literal death, and very real mourning, but also a time of unrelenting hopefulness, the fervent commitment to the principle that this world is not all, that some of life’s most significant gestures and meanings are as yet unseen.
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Reading Greece1 week ago
Easter holds a special place in the heart of Greek people, and has been the theme of many poems by significant Greek #poets, such as Dionysios Solomos, Odysseas Elytis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Kostis Palamas, Angelos Sikelianos, Nikos Gatsos, Tasos Leivaditis, Giannis Varveris, Kiki Dimoula, etc.

The six songs of the Holy Week sequence, "Days of the Epitaph" by Nikos Gatsos are a tribute to Christ. The poet feels that Christ’s sacrifice was the ultimate manifestation of God’s love for people. All six songs are interspersed with frequent quotations, sometimes slightly modified, from the Bible and other religious texts, expressing the poet’s conviction that Christ is the only hope for mankind.
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Poetry of the Month: “Days of the Epitaph” by Nikos Gatsos
Easter, or Pascha in Greek, is the most important religious holiday of the Orthodox Church marking the resurrection of Christ and the chance of rebirth for mankind. Easter holds a special place in the heart of Greek people, and has been the theme of many poems by significant Greek poets, such as Di...
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