Elias, a small farming village in central Greece, is dying out. But two cousins team up with the village grannies to cultivate the tomato seeds they have kept for hundreds of years. With a little help from Wagner’s music –which they use to help their tomatoes grow– the team succeeds to export little jars with organic tomato...
Book presentation and signing.
Join the members of the Hellenic Society of Constantinople to honor Philippos Trevezas and The Hellenic Library of Southern California.
Join us for a concert reading with Apollo Dukakis An Iliad by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’ Hare based on Homer’s Iliad translated by Robert Fagles
Please join us for a Zoom discussion of this wonderful book. In order to take part, you must register at: hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu.
Please join us for conversation in Greek about Η γραμμή του ορίζοντος. The register for the book club, please contact the Center's Associate Director Simos Zenios: szenios@humnet.ucla.edu
This talk, delivered by Professor Anastasia Drandaki, presents the story of the exciting discovery of the Valadoros Epitaphios, a rare, gold-embroidered fourteenth- century epitaphios and a true masterpiece of Byzantine art. The epitaphios is part of the bequest of the siblings Anastasios and Maria Valadoros, which includes more than 300 icons and a large number...