Our Lykion Book Club will discuss “Not Even My Name“ by Thea Halo on January 10, 2016. (Time and place to be determined.) All are welcome to join in this timely discussion.
“Not Even My Name” is a rare eyewitness account of the horrors of a little-known, often denied genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey were killed during and after World War I. As told by Sano Halo to her daughter, Thea, this is the story of her survival of the death march at age ten that annihilated her family, and the mother-daughter pilgrimage to Turkey in search of Sano’s home seventy years after her exile. Sano, a Pontic Greek from a small village near the Black Sea, also recounts the end of her ancient, pastoral way of life in the Pontic Mountains.
XRONIA POLLA KAI KALI XRONIA 2016
Dear members and friends,
Lykion ton Ellinidon Atlanta and the Hellenic Women’s Cultural Association invite you to a celebration of the traditional Vasilopita cutting.
Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 3 pm at the Kafenion
Special guest speaker for the day will be Dr. Louis Ruprecht, Director, Hellenic Studies Program, Georgia State University
Topic: “The Strange Journey of Greek Statues”
“How Sixteen Statues Went From Aegina and Athens, to Rome and Munich… and Why Hitler Wanted to Be Buried With Them.”
We hope to see you all there to celebrate the beginning of another great year for both organizations!
A CELEBRATION OF CRETE
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Homeric Age
The GSU Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an academic pre-party in support of the Atlanta Pan-Cretan glendi, which will take place on Saturday, January 30, 2016.
To that end, we have invited two noted Cretan archaeologists: Dr. Thomas Strasser of Providence College (Providence, RI); and Professor Anastasia Tzigounaki, Director of Antiquities for the Greek Ministry of Archaeology’s Cretan Ephorate (Rethymnon, Crete).
Professor Strasser will speak about exciting new evidence of Paleolithic and Neolithic settlement on the island of Crete. He will discuss his excavations at Plakias and Damnoni, where evidence of early hominid habitation going back more than 200,000 years has been unearthed. This work has already significantly altered our understanding of early hominid migration out of Africa.
Professor Tzigounaki will offer an overview of what we now know about the three major “palatial” periods in Bronze Age, or Minoan, Crete. She will discuss new discoveries from her excavations at Kalo Chorafi, near Mylopotamos, in order to highlight some of the distinguishing features of this remarkably sophisticated Bronze Age culture—in art, in political administration, in seafaring and more.
The Director of the Center will offer a summary of the presence of Crete in the Homeric poems, focusing primarily upon the suggestive notion that Odysseus’ preferred lie in the Odyssey makes him out to be a pirate from the island of Crete. These Homeric reflections will take us beyond the ancient world, right up to the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
This panel discussion will take place in the 8th floor Conference Room at 25 Park Place on Friday, January 29, 2016, from 1:00-5:00pm.
The schedule of events will be as follows:
12:30-1:00pm: Reception and Greetings
1:00-1:15pm: Welcome, The Honorable Giorgos Panagiotidis, Greek Consul of Atlanta
1:15-2:15pm: Thomas Strasser, Crete in the Stone Age: Crete before Minos: The Stone Ages of a Rough and Rugged Island”
2:15-2:30pm: Break
2:30-3:30pm: Anastasia Tzigounaki, Crete in the Bronze Age: “Minoan Civilization: Insights from a New Excavation at Kalo Chorafi, Mylopotamos”
3:30-3:45pm: Break
3:45-4:45pm: Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., Crete in the Homeric Age: “How the Place of Mixing Became a Place for Monsters”
A wine reception will follow the panel, in a location TBA.
We hope that you will be able to join us for this exciting event, and to celebrate the unique richness of the island of Crete. Please share the attached flyer with friends and colleagues.
The event is located with walking distance from the Five Points and Peachtree Center MARTA stations. Parking is also available in a number of public lots located on Auburn Avenue and Peachtree Center Avenue, NE, all within two blocks of the 25 Park Place Building (nearby parking locations).
We hope to see you there!
Sarah Y. Levine and Louis A. Ruprecht Jr.
The GSU Center for Hellenic Studies
Dear Evrytanian Friends:
Happy New Year! Hope you and your families enjoyed a happy holiday season, and we all wish you a beautiful and peaceful 2016.
Please bring your families and join us for our annual Vasilopita celebration – a cutting of the Vasilopita and potluck dinner on Sunday, January 31, at 5:00 pm at the Kafenion.
We plan a very short meeting that evening. If you have not paid your dues for 2015, it would be a good time to do so, and , of course, we will accept payment of dues for 2016.
On Thursday, January 14, the Evrytanians will host the January Golden Group luncheon. We are also responsible for serving coffee for Philoptochos in Carlos Hall after church services the entire month of January.
Looking forward to seeing all of you on Sunday, January 31, at 5:00 pm in the Kafenion. If you have any questions or suggestions, please call me at 404-261-0504.
Regards,
Bess Dimos
Dear HAS members,
Happy New Year! I hope everybody had a restful holiday season. Our Vasilopita celebration this year is going to be on Sunday, January 31st. We will meet at 6:00 pm for dinner and Vasilopita at Alpha Soda Restaurant in Alpharetta. The cost of the event will be $15 ($10 for students).
Please e-mail me georgenakos@clayton.edu to let us know if you are coming because we need to tell the restaurant how many people will attend. Again, please RSVP to enable proper organization of the event.
Alpha Soda Restaurant
11760 Haynes Bridge Road
Alpharetta, GA 30009
Phone 770-442-3102
We are looking forward to seeing everybody on Sunday, January 31st!
The HAS Board
President: George Nakos
Vice President: Evangelos Theodorou
Vice President for Activities: Theofilos Moysiadis
Treasurer: Mina Giannakakos
Secretary: Panagiotis Kintis
Join us for our annual Apokriatiko Glendi (Mardi Gras) Celebration!!!
Please join us for Greek Community Night with the Atlanta Hawks!
Details are listed (below) and on the attached flier. Feel free to forward along to your database, families, and anyone who may be interested!
GREEK COMMUNITY NIGHT WITH THE ATLANTA HAWKS!
Join us for Greek Community Night on Saturday, February 20th, 2016 as the Hawks take on Greek NBA player, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and the Milwaukee Bucks at 7:30pm at Philips Arena!
The following items will be included in the night:
Discounted game ticket for each person
$10 worth of food and beverage credit built onto each ticket
Group welcome for your group on the Jumbo-tron
Atlanta Hawks vs. Milwaukee Bucks
Saturday, February 20th, 2016
7:30pm at Philips Arena
Sections 307-314 – $26 each
Sections 109-110 – $60 each
Section 112 – $76 each
Ticket prices and availability are subject to change so order your tickets today! TICKETS WILL SELL OUT! To order by phone, or for better seat locations or different games, please contact Ryan Coller at 404-878-3714 or by email at ryan.coller@hawks.com. Attached is a copy of the flier for your convenience as well.
Join us for a lecture regarding the prospects for a solution to the Cyprus problem, given by the Honorary Consul of Greece, Giorgos Panagiotidis and the Honorary Consul of Cyprus, Polyxeni Potter. The talk will be given in English, and will begin at 7 pm.
Please join the Hellenic Studies Program of Holy Transfiguration for their annual Greek Independence celebration. A luncheon will be served and the Honorable Consul of Cyprus, Polyxeni Potter will give the keynote address. Please see the attached flyer for details.
