Author: Iro

Oxford Alumna, Prehistoric Archaeologist, English Teacher (QTS, GTCS), Greek Teacher, MoMA & Coursera Mentor & Mentor Guide, Translator for Global Translator Community, Moderator & Founding member of the “Mu.SA (MOOC) Network, Bookworm, Psychology Enthusiast, Interested in Politics & Philosophy, Portraitist, Art Lover, Traveler since I was a forty-day old baby, Learner, Gypsy Soul, Chocoholic “Το χαμόγελο του παιδιού – The Smile of the Child” supporter, Ελπίδα Σύλλογος Φίλων Παιδιών με καρκίνο «ΕΛΠΙΔΑ» - ELPIDA (HOPE) Friends’ Association of Children with cancer supporter, “Little Princess Trust” supporter

Søren Kierkegaard’s Struggle with Himself

For the philosopher, unhappiness became not a condition but a vocation. Imagine an educated, affluent European in his late twenties, seemingly one of fortune’s favored, who suffers from crippling feelings of despair and guilt. For no apparent reason, he breaks up with the woman everyone thought he was going to marry—not because he loves someone... Continue Reading →

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Σάρκινος λόγος

Ι. Τί ὄμορφη ποὺ εἶσαι. Μὲ τρομάζει ἡ ὀμορφιά σου. Σὲ πεινάω. Σὲ διψάω.Σοῦ δέομαι: Κρύψου, γίνε ἀόρατη γιὰ ὅλους, ὁρατὴ μόνο σ᾿ ἐμένα.Καλυμένη ἀπ᾿ τὰ μαλλιά ὡς τὰ νύχια τῶν ποδιῶν μὲ σκοτεινὸ διάφανο πέπλοδιάστικτο ἀπ᾿ τοὺς ἀσημένιους στεναγμοὺς ἐαρινῶν φεγγαριῶν.Οἱ πόροι σου ἐκπέμπουν φωνήεντα, σύμφωνα ἰμερόεντα.Ἀρθρώνονται ἀπόρρητες λέξεις. Τριανταφυλλιὲς ἐκρήξεις ἀπ᾿ τὴ πράξη... Continue Reading →

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Γυμνὸ σῶμα

Ι. Εἶπε:ψηφίζω τὸ γαλάζιο.Ἐγὼ τὸ κόκκινο.Κι ἐγώ. Τὸ σῶμα σου ὡραῖοΤὸ σῶμα σου ἀπέραντο.Χάθηκα στὸ ἀπέραντο. Διαστολὴ τῆς νύχτας.Διαστολὴ τοῦ σώματος.Συστολὴ τῆς ψυχῆς. Ὅσο ἀπομακρύνεσαιΣὲ πλησιάζω. Ἕνα ἄστροἔκαψε τὸ σπίτι μου. Οἱ νύχτες μὲ στενεύουνστὴν ἀπουσία σου.Σὲ ἀναπνέω. Ἡ γλῶσσα μου στὸ στόμα σουἡ γλῶσσα σου στὸ στόμα μου-σκοτεινὸ δάσος.Οἱ ξυλοκόποι χάθηκανκαὶ τὰ πουλιά. Ὅπου... Continue Reading →

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UNESCO handbook on “Journalism, Fake News & Disinformation” to be translated into 30 new languages

As disinformation escalates amid the pandemic, so too does the urgency of fighting disinformation and strengthening independent journalism so as to secure public interest information. To help journalists report effectively through the haze, and explain how disinformation works, UNESCO launched an appeal on 19 March through the network of the International Association on Media and... Continue Reading →

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Rembrandt

Museums in Quarantine Series 1, Episode 2 of 4 Historian Simon Schama takes us on a very personal virtual tour of the Young Rembrandt exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, currently in lockdown. The exhibition charts the first ten years of the Dutch master’s career, when the miller’s son from Leiden became the superstar of... Continue Reading →

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Κ’ ίσως, για να βγάλεις φτερά…

κ' ίσως, για να βγάλεις φτερά, φτάνει ν' ακουμπήσεις σ' έναν τοίχο και να σκεφτείς πόσο λίγο θα ζήσεις -έτσι άρχισαν τα πουλιά...Τάσος Λειβαδίτης, Ο διάβολος με το κηροπήγιο (1975), Ποίηση, τ. 2, Eκδόσεις Μετρονόμος

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