Engagement day in Olympos, Karpathos, 2016.
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reece.A country where tourists all over the world flock every summer to enjoy their share of sun, sea, fun and maybe a glimpse of antiquity marvels that have withstood the passage of centuries, under the bright light that illuminates the Pentelic marble and provides the Aegean Sea with her characteristic deep blue shades. Nobel prize-winning Odysseas Elytis wrote: “Oh God, you spend so much blue so that we cannot see you”. Nevertheless, beneath its obvious charms and shallow endeavours, lies Greek Culture. A culture impregnated by the seed of thousands of years of philosophy, wars, and influences from other civilizations. A country that has striven to understand its place in this world, its soil soaked, as it were, by both the sweat and blood of Eastern, as well as Western conquerors and indigenous inhabitants.
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Many of us believe that we are made of choices - that choosing one over another sculpts our destiny. Maybe the answer to Greece’s dilemma lies in letting go and embracing its place as an acrobat on a string between these two main pillars of civilization. What if its role lies in being the transitional link from the Western to the Eastern civilization and vice versa?
Towards the church on Virgin Mary’s Assumption Day (August 15), Olympos, Karpathos, 2016. athens insider | 61 |