HISTORICAL GREECE-KRATINOS

Kratinos the Athenian                     Born: 519 BC    Died: 422 BC

Kratinos was one of the most important comedy writers of Ancient Greece.

He was a contemporary of  Aeschylos and Aristophanes.
He wrote 24 stories which were characterised by their very sharp scathing humour.
Participation in competitions:

425 BC     Cheimazomenoi        2nd prize               Aharneis ( by Aristophanes) joint 2nd 424 BC     Satyrs                       2nd prize               Ippeis (by Aristophanes)  1st
423 BC     Pytine                       1st prize                Nefele ( by Aristophanes) last

Diousalexandros, another of his plays,  was found in a papyrus in 1903.
The following are plays by Kratinos.

Archilochoi ("The Archilochuses") (c. 448 BC)

Boukoloi ("The Cow-Herds")

Bousiris ("Busiris")

Deliades ("Women From Delos")

Didaskaliai ("The Rehearsals")

Drapetides ("Female Runaways")

Empipramenoi ("Men On Fire") or Idaioi ("The Idaeans")

Euneidai ("Children of Euneus")

Thrattai ("Women From Thrace")

Kleoboulinai ("The Cleobulines")

Lakones ("The Laconians")

Malthakoi ("The Soft Ones")

Nemesis ("Nemesis")

Nomoi ("The Laws")

Odysseis ("The Odysseuses")

Panoptai ("The All-Seers")

Ploutoi ("The Gods of Wealth")

Pylaia ("The Meeting At Pylae")

Satyroi ("Satyrs"), won 2nd prize at the Lenaea of 424 BC^[5]

Seriphioi ("Men From Seriphus")

Trophonios ("Trophonius")

Cheimazomenoi ("Storm-Tossed Men"), won 2nd prize at Lenaea of 425 BC^[6]

Cheirones ("The Chirons")

Horai ("The Hours")

From Wikipaedia.

Kratinos was awarded nine times for his plays. His numerous work fragments were saved by Ancient biologist Atheneos.
His scathing humour was impetuous and prominent. He is said to have been initiated in Orphism and was a follower of Bacchus.
Kratinos belonged to the Oeneis tribe, one of the ten tribes of Ancient Athens.
 
He is referred to by proponents of the Erasmian theory of Ancient Greek  pronunciation. For this, his famous phrase is: «Ὁ δ' ἠλίθιος ὥσπερ πρόβατον βῆ βῆ λέγων βαδίζει».
There are, however, serious objections to the Erasmian style of Greek pronunciation by many scholars.

For more information on Kratinos look up Wikipaedia.

 TRIBES OF ANCIENT ATHENS

1.   Erehtheis
2.   Aigeis
3.   Pandionis
4.   Leondis
5.   Akamandis
6.  Oeneis
7.   Kekropis
8.   Ippothondis
9.   Aeandis
10. Andiohis

 MUNICIPALITIS OF THE OENEIS TRIBE  (Organised by Kleisthenis 6th c. B.C.

1.   Aharnai
2.   Voutadai
3.   Epikifisia
4    Thria
5.   Ippotamathai
6.   Kothokithai
7.   Lakiathai
8.    Lousia
9.   Meliti
10. Oi
11. Perithoithai
12. Ptelaia
13. Tyrmithai
14. Fyli

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ABOUT EEZs TOO

HAVE THEY GONE MAD?

No they are just trying to scaremonger others into submission.

The talk as of recent is about the newly "declared " EEZ between Turkey and Libya.
This unilateral declaration is ill-conceived unemployable as it is internationally unacceptable. The Turks refuse Greece's right to an EEZ with the only reasoning that: Islands have NO continental shelf. They used this false argument to make  their deal with Libya. Of course we all know what a divided country Libya is after the fall of Kaddafi.
In fact it makes me think...
Is this part of the grand plan of the Imperialist world forces in order to get their hands on cheap energy resources?
As we know ALL NON ALLIED NATIONS have suffered either for their resources or their political standings or both.
Malta: See what happened to Mintoff.
Yugoslavia: Destroyed with war  by Imperialism.
Libya: Destroyed with war  by Imperialism.
Iraq: Destroyed with war  by Imperialism.
Syria: Destroyed with war by Imperialism.
Cyprus: Destroyed with war by Imperialism.
Greece: Destroyed with economic war by Imperialism and recently threat of War by the expansionist actions of Turkey.
 
Turkey without subscribing to international Law threatens the very survival of what should be one of their allies.
So is Turkey right? should islands not be included in the creation of an EEZ? have they no continental shelf?

Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, "the name continental shelf was given a legal definition as the stretch of the seabed adjacent to the shores of a particular country to which it belongs."


 From the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

"The continental shelf of a coastal State comprises the seabed and subsoil of the
submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural
prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to
a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the
territorial sea is measured where the outer edge of the continental margin does not
extend up to that distance."


From the  Maritime Zones

Islands  

"Islands are naturally formed land areas surrounded by water on all sides. Islands must be above the water at high tide and able to sustain human habitation or economic life of their own.¹⁹ Islands possess the same maritime zones as other landmasses, including a territorial sea, contiguous zone, EEZ, and continental shelf. Islands do not need to be inhabited to create those maritime zones; they only need to be capable of sustaining human habitation or economic life. See below for information on artificial islands, which are treated differently than naturally occurring  islands."                                                                                                                      

Rocks

"A rock in the LOSC is defined as an island that is unable to support human habitation or economic life. Rocks provide their owners with less control than islands, providing only a territorial sea and a contiguous zone. They do not create or further the extent of an EEZ. Rock is a legal term and does not refer to any particular type of geological formation. For example, a sandbar can be considered a rock."

Ο  ΝΟΩΝ ΝΟΕΙΤΩ           who is able to understand, understands

Below are the maps of internationally accepted  EEZs of the countries involved in the dispute of the East Mediterranean courtesy of:
MARINE REGIONS
 CYPRUS

GREECE
















 TURKEY
















 LIBYA

 

 

 

 

 

EGYPT

 

 

Of course EEZ' can only be agreed between partners, but these are the internationally accepted proposed parameters set by all International bodies.

Turkey has not signed the UNCLOS agreement so how is it that uses the EEZ code to promote its Illegal claims?
Of course this is a rhetorical question as we all know Turkey acts CRAZY!

HEY TYRKISH... ARE YOU PART OF OUR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY?

Referencies:

http://www.vliz.be/en/news?p=show&id=646
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea
https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf
https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part6.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_shelf
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2199580?seq=1
https://sites.tufts.edu/lawofthesea/chapter-two/
http://www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=details&id=5679

HAS ANYTHING REALLY CHANGED?

Has anything really changed?

That's what we ask ourselves. Is the Left changing the Country or is the Country changing the Left?

We all tell stories to prove one or the other. Some stories, however, are more blatant than others.
Take for example the case of  Mr. Gavroglou Minister for Education Research and Religion and his decision to name the primary school of New Kios,near Nafplion, after Apostolos Pezas, a renowned collaborator of the NAZI occupational force in Greece and creator of the arrest and execution of striking workers in his Lignite factory (coal mine) of Kalogreza. This is known as           
THE KALOGREZA ROUNDING.            Mr. K. Gavroglou
The 15th of March 2019 was the 75th anniversary of this event.
Look up this website for more information on the Apostolos Pezas-Kalogreza affair.
http://aera2012.blogspot.com/2019/03/blog-post_17.html
and this:
http://skeftomasteellhnika.blogspot.com/2019/03/22_18.html
and the Greek government official announcement of Pezas' honouring at:
http://www.et.gr/index.php/anazitisi-fek
Put 2019 as the year of search,
put B for flield: τεύχος
put 796 and 796 for: αριθμός ΦΕΚ
and click:   ΑΝΑΖΗΤΗΣΗ

Below is the Government news bulletin that informs of the action.

PS. Mrs Glykatzi-Arveler, respected historian and author, will be fuming to be listed beside Apostolos Pezas, renowned German collaborator and killer of 22 workers. 



 

RESPECT

In the 15th of March 1944  the security forces(NAZI collaborators) in occupied Greece, executed 21 Greeks and 1 Italian at Kalogreza, who are shown below



Greek poet Laureate Yiannis Ritsos wrote this in their memory:
Στην Καλογρέζα σαν περνάς
Ξέγνοιαστε εσύ διαβάτη,
Με ευλάβεια πρέπει να πατάς,
Γιατί σε τούτα τα ληθάρια
Έπεσαν για τη λευτεριά
22 παλικάρια

ATHANATOI

 

 

Ο ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ

ΠΟΣΟ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ Ο ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ?

Ακούστηκαν κάποιες κραυγές για την αντικατάσταση του σταυρού στην ελληνική σημαία.

Δεν είμαι θρησκευόμενος... Αλλά υπάρχουν ορισμένοι λόγοι για τους οποίους ο σταυρός πρέπει να μείνει στην σημαία.

1. Πρέπει να καταλάβουμε όλοι, ιδίως οι ψευτοκομμουνιστές του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ, ότι η κύρια αντίθεση στην πασκόσμια κοινωνία
του σήμερα είναι η αντίπαράθεση μεταξύ των Ισλαμιστών και όλων των άλλων. Ετσι δεν είναι δυνατόν να υποχωρείς
την κουλτουρα σου απέναντι στους αντιπάλους γιατί στο τέλος θα εξαφανιστείς.

2. Ο χριστιανισμός, αποτελεί επέκταση του αρχαίου ελληνικού πνεύματος, Παναγία=Αθηνά, Χριστός=Σωκράτης και
Διογένης . Η στήλη ΤΩ ΑΓΝΩΣΤΩ ΘΕΩ κλπ.

3. Ο Χριστιανισμός είναι μέρος της πολιτιστικής κουλτούρας των Ελλήνων και πολλές παραδόσεις είναι βαθειά ριζωμένες
στην ζωή του ελληνικού λαού.

Ως εκ τούτων αυτοί που υποστηρίζουν την αποκαθήλωση είναι ΑΝΘΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ.
Προσωπικά, πιστεύω ότι ο σταυρός πρέπει να μείνει γιατί δείχνει την διαχρονική πορεία του Ελληνισμού.

Και η μάπα της Αθηνάς μπορει κάλιστα να προστεθεί στο κέντρο του Σταυρού.

 

ΓΟΥΣΤΑΡΩ!

 

I'm not a religious ... But there are some reasons why the 

cross must be on the flag.

1. We all need to understand, in particular 

the pseudo-communists of SYRIZA , that the main opposition 

to the passive society

of today is the opposition between Islamists and all others. So it is not possible to retreat your culture against these opponents because in the end you will disappear.

2. Christianity is an extension of the ancient 

Greek spirit, Holy Mother = Athena, Christ = Socrates and

 Diogenes. The styli “TO THE UNKNOWN GOD”.

3. Christianity is part of the culture of the Greeks and 

many Christian  traditions are deeply rooted in the life 

of the Greek people.

Therefore, those who support the dissolution are 

ANTHELLINES.

Personally, I believe that the cross must remain because 

it shows the timeless course of Hellenism.

And… Athena’s face can even be added to the centre 

of the Cross.

I LIKE!

 

 

Did the Ancient Greeks eat wheat?

Dedicated to those who believe that the Ancients did not know the existence of wheat.

The following excerpt from Wiki shows that these non believers know diddly squat.

Cultivation of wheat began to spread beyond the Fertile Crescent after about 8000 BCE. Jared Diamond traces the spread of cultivated emmer wheat starting in the Fertile Crescent sometime before 8800 BCE. Archaeological analysis of wild emmer indicates that it was first cultivated in the southern Levant, with finds dating back as far as 9600 BCE.[16][17] Genetic analysis of wild einkorn wheat suggests that it was first grown in the Karacadag Mountains in southeastern Turkey. Dated archeological remains of einkorn wheat in settlement sites near this region, including those at Abu Hureyra in Syria, suggest the domestication of einkorn near the Karacadag Mountain Range.[18] With the anomalous exception of two grains from Iraq ed-Dubb, the earliest carbon-14 date for einkorn wheat remains at Abu Hureyra is 7800 to 7500 years BCE.[19]
Remains of harvested emmer from several sites near the Karacadag Range have been dated to between 8600 (at Cayonu) and 8400 BCE (Abu Hureyra), that is, in the Neolithic period. With the exception of Iraq ed-Dubb, the earliest carbon-14 dated remains of domesticated emmer wheat were found in the earliest levels of Tell Aswad, in the Damascus basin, near Mount Hermon in Syria. These remains were dated by Willem van Zeist and his assistant Johanna Bakker-Heeres to 8800 BCE. They also concluded that the settlers of Tell Aswad did not develop this form of emmer themselves, but brought the domesticated grains with them from an as yet unidentified location elsewhere.[20]

 
The cultivation of emmer reached Greece, Cyprus and India by 6500 BCE, Egypt shortly after 6000 BCE, and Germany and Spain by 5000 BCE.[21]

"The early Egyptians were developers of bread and the use of the oven and developed baking into one of the first large-scale food production industries.
" [22] By 3000 BCE, wheat had reached the British Isles and Scandinavia. A millennium later it reached China.

 This photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen shows a clay figurine in the museum of Thebes: Women kneed bread. Doesn't the bread look suspiciously risen? (In case you thought that the  Ancients did not know about yeast in bread).


Of course this is not the only source of information about the use of wheat and yeast in Ancient lands.
My friend, just open ANY book ANY website and you shall see a wondrous world of bread making from wheat AND yeast in the ancient world.

ΝΟΜΙΖΩ?

ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE - IS IT REALLY GREEK?

FOR THOSE WHO DENY THE GREEKNESS OF GREEK THOUGHT

There are those among us, even Greeks, who deny that any of what we call Ancient Greek Thought is actually a real product of the intellect of the ancients.

Indeed some think that there is no actual proof of the existence of the works of the Ancients as there has been nothing saved from the classical era.
Is this true? well, there is the wealth of ancient inscriptions on tombstones and pottery but this is not really evidence of the ancient spirit; right? We haven't anything more substantial surviving  like Homer's works do we?
ACTUALLY... WE DO! WE HAVE  THE "EGYPTIAN PAPYRI".
These papyri were found in the sands of Egypt dating from the Hellenised Ptolemaic times of the Egyptian Kingdoms.

According to the British Library, proof of ancient Greek writings come comes mainly from two sources:

A. Papyri from Egypt

Papyri from Egypt come mostly from the towns of the southern Nile valley.
Here >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> we can see a papyrus from the 2nd century AD found in Oxyrhynchos (see map above).
Many others were found in the lower Nile area of Egypt.
Below, the Aristotelian Constitution of the Athenians preserved almost intact on four papyrus scrolls, copied around 100 AD (Papyrus 131).

 

 

 

 B. Byzantine manuscripts

 

One such proof of, shall we say, authenticity is SOUDA , an encyclopaedia which was written around the 10th century AD.

It is one of the most important and valuable works for Greek literature history and Grammar and is attributed to a scholar called Soudas although the name could possibly have been derived from the word Souda for fortress.
A copy of it is seen here. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The encyclopaedia uses sources from ancient times such as the orator and author Arpokration from Alexandria who lived in 2nd century BC.
It gives partial documentation and examination of works of many Classics.

DON'T BELIEVE.  EXAMINE AND PROVE.

ΝΟΜΙΖΩ?