MY GREEK TV: EVICTED FROM SINAI, ADIDAS ON THE ACROPOLIS, GREECE'S 'ALCATRAZ'

In episode 11 of My Greek TV (or Romaic Ruminations, or Greek Gropings) (YouTube channel, Facebook) on the hidden history, culture, and identity of Hellenism, from the Stone Age to the modern diaspora. Dean Kalymniou and Peter Stefanidis are taking on a few very recent hot topics. 

May 30, 2025 MY Greek TV: Greek Identity: Curated by Favorinus, Sponsored by Adidas - EP11.

* Constantinople (1453) (link): "We unpack how the Fall still echoes in our bones, how it shapes our collective trauma, and why we can't stop setting our tragedies to Byzantine chant. Is it history… or therapy?|

* Sinai Monks Evicted (link): "Egypt’s courts are booting Orthodox monks from one of Christianity’s oldest monasteries. Is this geopolitics, religious erasure, or just bureaucracy in a cassock?"

* Favorinus of Arelate (link): "A one-legged, intersex Roman philosopher walks into Corinth and gets grilled on his Greekness. We explore what his defiant answer says about diaspora identity and impostor syndrome, 2nd century-style."

* Pelopidas’ Funeral (link): "A national figure gets a state send-off in branded tsarouhia. We ask: when did mourning become merch? And does the West only respect Greeks when they're wearing togas?"

* Adidas vs. the Acropolis: (link) "The Parthenon becomes an advertising backdrop, and Greeks split into two camps: the outraged and the over it. Is sacred marble fair game for global brands, or is this cultural commodification 101?"

* Plus let's not forget Dean mentioning Makronisos. Here's what Wikipedia says about the island. The 'Long Island', or the 'Alcatraz' of Greece may have been the subject of the Xarchakos song, Στης πίκρας τα ξερόνησα (Stis pikras ta xeronisa - The arid islands of bitterness) (link).

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