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🔥 The Battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 BC, probably the first week of September. * What connects a 19th century Japanese battlefield with a narrow Greek pass in 480 BC? * How did Sparta treat those who didn't fight? * Can a society make an elite fighter without breaking the human being inside the armour? * And how did two cultures on opposite sides of the earth build almost identical codes of honour?

💥 We are looking at the Battle of Actium which happened on September 2nd 31 BC. How did a single afternoon on the water changed the fate of the Western world? What happens when the greatest Roman generals decide to fight their final battle, not in Italy, but on the coast of Greece? What was a Greek queen doing in the middle of a Roman civil war? And what would have happened if Cleopatra and Mark Antony had won?

🌞From Corfu to Patmos and Meteora, Madonna has been moving around Greece, and the (religious) significance of those places is hard to ignore. So let's follow her journey while we talk about Confessions...! ⛵

💥August 15th commemorates the Dormition of Virgin Mary. Or maybe the Assumption...? * What if the most important woman in the New Testament simply vanished from history without a single bone left behind? * Did Mary actually die, or is a single Latin word the real reason Christianity split in half? * Why do millions celebrate a second Easter in the middle of August for someone whose burial location nobody can prove? *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

💥 Did you know that Helen was murdered by another woman? 💥That Hercules had African roots? 💥That the gods used to make holograms? 💥What's the deal with Nolan's "artistic license" with Black Helen? 💥 And what's an egg got to do with all this??? 👉🏻 Episode mentioned (Dune & ancient Greece): https://pod.fo/e/2c200b *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

💥Now that the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest is over let's go on an incredible ride into its politics! * Was Bulgaria really supposed to win in 2026? * How threatening could a song be to require a bulletproof vest? * Does Israel deliberately finish in 2nd place? * Did Eurovision reward a country for invading another? * Which country participated one and only time? * A name dispute ends, and a scoreboard instantly explodes. Coincidence? * Which king banned his country to never return? * Could Greece's history teach Bulgaria something? *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

💥Turkey's rhetoric against Greece is at its finest as usual. 💥At the same time, May 19 commemorates the Greek Pontic Genocide. 💥Let's find out a few things about the Turkish president who is dreaming of a 'blue homeland' and who could even have... Greek roots! * How does a boy who sold sesame bread in the streets become the most powerful man in Turkey? * Why would a poem be enough to throw him in prison? * How Turkish is Erdogan's homeland? * And how did one night in 2016 change the fate of 80 million people forever? *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

💥 April 19th marks the anniversary since Lord Byron's death. 💥 In this episode, we compare the 🇬🇷 Greek-loving poet Byron 🇬🇧 and the 🇹🇷 Turkish-loving writer Pierre Loti 🇲🇫 * Did the gods Athena and Poseidon get their revenge in the 1800s? * How did a man who inspired a famous opera become a villain in Greek history? * Was Byron a true hero of the revolution, or just a bored aristocrat? * Why did a French officer feel more at home in a fake mosque? * Why did Lord Byron give his life for a reality that Pierre Loti tried to ignore? *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

💥 Who said that size doesn't matter? In this episode we compare the greatest Orthodox church with catholic churches and mosques! * How did a 6th-century church defined architecture for the next 1,000 years? * Did the Greeks build the world’s largest dome 1,800 years before Hagia Sophia? * Which European church "stole" the title of the largest church from Hagia Sophia? * Which modern mosque changed the Istanbul skyline just a few years ago? and * Which is really the biggest church in the world? 💥 Stick around until the end to find out the building that actually holds the world records today! *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

💥 In this episode we see what Greeks and Romans said about Jesus before the Gospels: * Is the earliest Crucifixion drawing a cruel piece of "wall art"? * How did a spelling error prove that Jesus was already known in Rome soon after his he died? * What was so "deadly" about a group that met at dawn to sing hymns? * How did a Greek philosopher's book written to destroy the memory of Jesus actually become the reason his own name survived history? 👉🏻 Easter episode: https://pod.fo/e/2c7e1c *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

💥A two-part Korea series starts with K-Pop Demon Hunters... and ends with a war! 💥 Two countries, 8,000 kilometers apart, ended up living the same Cold War script: civil war, foreign intervention, and dictatorships wrapped in the language of 'freedom'. Part 1 👇🏻 https://pod.fo/e/35027a *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

* Why did naked men chase women with goat-skin thongs? * Could a birth control plant be the reason why we draw hearts the way we do today? * Is your 'soulmate' just a fix for a wound caused by Zeus? * Why did the Greeks fear Eros as a dangerous 'madness'? * Where can you find the real relics of Saint Valentine? *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

💥 Honouring International Holocaust Remembrance Day, this is Part 2 of 'Jews and Greece'. 👉🏻 Part 1: https://pod.fo/e/365d7a ♦️What put the Jews against the Greeks under Turkish occupation? ♦️Were Jews and Greeks the ancestors of all Europeans? ♦️ How did a Greek city become the largest Jewish city in the world? ♦️What Jewish names echo the Spanish Inquisition?

🎄 Welcome to a wonderful Christmas special connecting our world to ancient Greece!🎄 * Think the Christmas tree is a modern tradition? * What if I told you the ancient Athenians were hanging "gifts" on olive branches thousands of years ago? * How does this custom connect with the Minotaur and a bowl of bean soup? ** Other Christmas episodes: https://pod.fo/e/2c2018 https://pod.fo/e/2c2017 *** My list with Greek Christmas carols & songs: https://t.ly/J3Bfo

💥 This is part 1 about the Jews in Greece. 👉🏻 Part 2: https://pod.fo/e/380dcc * How did a Jewish holiday become a celebration of resisting Greek cancel culture? * Was the first Jewish-Greek war fought over a statue of Zeus? * What was the "little horn" that terrified the Greek empire? and * Why did some Jewish men try to surgically reverse their circumcision?