The Greek Festival is here, and so are the after-parties! This’s year’s event on Friday night will be at The Warren (in the Highlands). These events are a great way to bring everyone together and party after a hard day’s work – serving up gyros and frappedes.
IMPORTANT: As was the case last year, there will be a $5 cover at The Warren for those ON THE LIST (see Facebook page for this event to include your name by commenting on the page’s wall).
Age: 21+
The Greek Festival is here, and so are the after parties! Our Saturday Greek Night will be at Taverna Plaka, where we’ll have a private event just for us in the entire back room. We’re also delighted to have the best music played by DiscoHristo! We’re anticipating a large crowd, so we may also add the front room later in the night.
These events are a great way to bring everyone together and party after a hard day’s work serving up gyros and frappedes…please invite anyone that I missed or am not connected to. Looking forward to this year’s Greek Fest with you all!
SATURDAY GREEK NIGHT DETAILS:
Where: Taverna Plaka
Address: 2196 Cheshire Bridge Rd, Atlanta, GA 30324
When: 11:00PM
Cover: $5
Parking: Complementary Valet
Central Georgia Greek Festival
hosted by
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church
Join us for Authentic Greek Food, Live Music, Dancing, Shopping, Jewelry, Religious Artifacts, Art and Church Tours
The HELLENIC STUDIES PROGRAM
of Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church
presents our annual
“OXI DAY” CELEBRATION
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Immediately following the Divine Liturgy
Luncheon and Program featuring the children of our community
Adults – $10
Children (12 and under) – $5
Meals “to go” – $8
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the third in our fall series of lectures in ancient history and archaeology. On Monday, October 27th, Dr. Sarah Murray, the Distinguished Professor Digital Humanities in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, will give a lecture entitled “Men of Many Wiles: Homeric Heroes as Masters of International Finance.”
While the Late Bronze Age in the Mediterranean is widely considered to have been a time of bustling internationalism, when wealthy kings engaged in lucrative trade relations with distant peers across the watery ways, most scholars believe that elites of the succeeding Greek Dark Age engaged in little overseas trade besides occasional small-scale gift exchange and piracy. A more careful reading of the Homeric poems and the related archaeological evidence from Early Greece suggests that trade continued, albeit in an altered institutional setting, right through the Greek Dark Age, and that Homeric kings were direct heirs of the Late Bronze Age world system, in which trading was seen as a necessary, but ideologically problematic, activity that needed to be couched in a bombastic language of gift exchange. In this talk, proceeding from a review of the colorful debate between those who believe that the Iliad and Odyssey are works of pure fiction–and hence of little use for reconstructing the social, political, and economic reality of early Greece–and those seeking to uncover a kernel of historical truth at the core of the fantastical adventures of these epic heroes, Dr. Murray will argue that Odysseus and his fellow kings (basileis) should be seen as ambitious economic actors, not just reckless adventurers out for fame and fortune on the high seas.
The lecture will begin at 4:30pm in the New Troy Moore Library, on the 23rd floor at 25 Park Place (the old Sun Trust building) on the Georgia State University campus.
There will be food and refreshments served before and after the lecture; this event is free and open to the public. Click to view event flyer.
Attention Atlanta-area Greek students!
The National Hellenic Student Association (NHSA) of North America, Inc., a not-for-profit in the State of New York, will be hosting their semi-annual convention in Washington, D.C. from November 7th to 9th, 2014. This convention will be held in collaboration with the Pan-Hellenism Weekend hosted by DCGreeks.com.
NHSA is an umbrella organization for Hellenic student organizations of colleges/universities in the United States and Canada. Among other initiatives, NHSA hosts semi-annual conferences, which are educational and professional in nature. NHSA invites students to participate in our educational workshops and to network with professionals who are invited to attend the convention as well. By having professionals present, students have the opportunity to discuss their fields of interest and to develop relationships with mentors. By the end of the convention, NHSA hopes that students will leave having learned something new and perhaps gained new contacts in their fields of interest.
In order to make the conventions a success, the National Hellenic Student Association of North America relies on the Hellenic community for mentorship support and financial support. As NHSA caters to students, we try to make the convention as affordable as possible. We rely on the generous donations of the Hellenic community to fund our conventions. Moreover, NHSA asks professionals to provide a small amount of their time to meet with students during our conferences. As stated before, education and professional interaction are two main goals of NHSA.
The Hellenic youth are the driving force of the Hellenic culture, values, traditions, language, and religion. Through our conventions, NHSA hopes to unify the members of the Diaspora to promote such concepts.
NHSA hopes to see students and professionals at our fall convention in Washington, D.C. as well as at the Pan-Hellenism Weekend. More information regarding these events will be available on Facebook and the NHSA website.
Ticket price includes reception in the Atrium with cash bar; Full-course dinner served with one red and one white wine; Entertainment by Basile the Comedian.
