Euclid Stefanou Tsakalotos (Greek : Ευκλείδης Στεφάνου Τσακαλώτος , Greek pronunciation: [efˈkliðis steˈfanu t͜sakaˈlotos] ; born 1960) is a Greek economist and politician who was Minister of Finance of Greece from 2015 to 2019. He was also a member of the Central Committee of Syriza and has represented Athens B in the Hellenic Parliament since May 2012 . He left Syriza in November 2023 and on 5 December 2023 he became founding member of New Left (Greece) parliamentary group.
Tsakalotos was born in Rotterdam , the Netherlands , but moved to the United Kingdom at a young age. He went to St Paul's School in London before studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at The Queen's College , University of Oxford . He went on to complete a master's degree at the Institute of Development Studies , which is attached to the University of Sussex , and returned to Oxford to complete a doctorate in economics under the supervision of Włodzimierz Brus , which he did in 1989. From 1989 to 1993, Tsakalotos worked at the University of Kent , where he met his partner, Heather D. Gibson . He moved to Greece, and taught at the Athens University of Economics and Business from 1994 to 2010, becoming a professor of economics. Since 2010, he has been a professor of economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens . He has written a number of books in both Greek and English and has been published in a range of different academic journals. Due to his upbringing in the UK, he speaks English with a British accent . (Full article... )
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Image 1 The
Temple of Hephaestus on the Agoraios Kolonos Hill (
Athens ,
Greece ), circa 449 BC, unknown architect (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 2 The landing of Greek troops in
Kavala during the Balkan Wars (from
History of Greece )
Image 3 Restored North Entrance with charging bull fresco of the
Palace of Knossos (
Crete ), with some Minoan colourful columns (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 5 Greece's cities, main towns, main rivers, islands and selected archaeological sites. (from
Geography of Greece )
Image 6 The major
Hellenistic realms included the
Diadoch kingdoms :
Also shown on the map:
The orange areas were often in dispute after 281 BC. The
Attalid kingdom occupied some of this area. Not shown:
Indo-Greek Kingdom . (from
History of Greece )
Image 8 Nafplio , the first capital of independent Greece during the governance of
Ioannis Kapodistrias (from
History of Greece )
Image 9 The most famous artist born in Greece was probably Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as
El Greco (
The Greek ) in Spain. He did most of his painting there during the late 1500s and early 1600s. (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 10 The
Temple of Hephaestus in
Athens is the best-preserved of all ancient Greek temples. (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 13 A map of Greater Greece after the
Treaty of Sèvres , when the
Megali Idea seemed close to fulfillment, featuring
Eleftherios Venizelos . (from
History of Greece )
Image 14 Aristarchus of Samos was the first known individual to propose a
heliocentric system , in the 3rd century BC (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 15 Depiction of the
Greek fire in
John Skylitzes '
Madrid Skylitzes (late 11th century). (from
History of Greece )
Image 17 Clashes in Athens during the
Dekemvriana events (from
History of Greece )
Image 18 Map of earthquakes in Greece and adjacent countries 1900–2017 (from
Geography of Greece )
Image 19 The
Little Metropolis (
Athens ), 9th–13th century, unknown architect (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 20 Crete (
NASA photograph) (from
Geography of Greece )
Image 21 Proclamation of the Second Hellenic Republic in 1924. Crowds holding placards depicting
Alexandros Papanastasiou ,
Georgios Kondylis and
Alexandros Hatzikyriakos (from
History of Greece )
Image 22 Traditional Greek
taverna , integral part of Greek culture and cuisine. (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 23 Alexander the Great also known as Alexander III, king of Macedon, was one of the most successful military commanders in history. (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 24 The division of the
Byzantine Empire after the
Fourth Crusade . (from
History of Greece )
Image 25 The I Battalion of the
Army of National Defence marches on its way to the front, 1916. Greece joined united with the Allies side in summer 1917. (from
History of Greece )
Image 27 George I was King of the Hellenes from 1862 to 1913 (from
History of Greece )
Image 28 Köppen climate classification of Greece (from
Geography of Greece )
Image 29 Our Lady of Tinos , the major Marian shrine in Greece (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 30 Protest against the junta by Greek political exiles in Germany, 1967 (from
History of Greece )
Image 32 Bust of
Herodotus in
Stoa of Attalus , one of the earliest nameable historians whose work survives. (from
History of Greece )
Image 33 Archery matches in
Panathenaic Stadium during the 2004 Olympics. (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 34 Members of the
National Organisation of Youth (EON) salute in presence of dictator
Metaxas (1938) (from
History of Greece )
Image 35 Part of the Byzantine
Walls of Thessaloniki (from
History of Greece )
Image 36 The socialist prime minister
Andreas Papandreou (from
History of Greece )
Image 37 The ancient theatre of
Epidaurus continues to be used for staging ancient Greek plays. (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 38 Terracotta
kylix that depicts a man holding a
lyre , circa 480 BC, in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 39 Georgios Tsolakoglou with
Wehrmacht officers arrives at Macedonia Hall of
Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, to sign the surrender (April 1941) (from
History of Greece )
Image 41 View of the Roman Odeon of
Patras (from
History of Greece )
Image 42 The
Parthenon is an enduring symbol of
ancient Greece and the
Athenian democracy . It is regarded as one of the world's greatest cultural monuments. (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 43 Greek Resistance cavalry during the Axis occupation (from
History of Greece )
Image 44 Traditional flag used from 1769 to the War of Independence (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 45 Mosaic in the
Hosios Loukas (
Distomo-Arachova-Antikyra , Greece), circa 10th century AD (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 46 Late 4th century AD "Mosaic of the Musicians" with
hydraulis ,
aulos , and
lyre from a Byzantine villa in
Maryamin ,
Syria (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 47 Topographic map of Greece (from
Geography of Greece )
Image 48 Proto-Greek linguistic area according to linguist
Vladimir I. Georgiev . (from
History of Greece )
Image 49 Depiction of the
Battle of Corinth (146 BC) on the last day before Roman legions looted and burned the city of
Corinth .
The last day on Corinth ,
Tony Robert-Fleury , 1870. (from
History of Greece )
Image 50 The ancient theatre of
Dodona (from
History of Greece )
Image 52 Shards of pottery vases on the street, after being thrown from the windows of nearby houses. A
Holy Saturday tradition in
Corfu . (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 54 Map of the
Delian League ("Athenian Empire or Alliance") in 431 BC, just prior to the
Peloponnesian War . (from
History of Greece )
Image 55 Mikis Theodorakis , popular composer and songwriter, introduced the
bouzouki into the mainstream culture. (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 56 Exterior view of
Hosios Loukas monastery, artistic example of the
Macedonian Renaissance (from
History of Greece )
Image 57 Mosaic from
Daphni Monastery (ca. 1100) (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 59 Overview of the campus of the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , the largest university in Greece and the Balkans (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 62 Organization and military bases of the Communist led "
Democratic Army ", as well as entry routes to Greece. (from
History of Greece )
Image 63 Greek cavalry attacking during the
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) . (from
History of Greece )
Image 64 Idealized portrait of
Homer ,
British Museum (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 66 A bottle of
retsina (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 67 The
Battle of Navarino , in October 1827, marked the effective end of Ottoman rule in Greece. (from
History of Greece )
Image 68 The territorial evolution of
Kingdom of Greece until 1947 (from
History of Greece )
Image 70 Mycenaean Greece,
c. 1400–1100 BC. (from
History of Greece )
Image 72 A page from a 16th-century edition of the 10th century Byzantine
encyclopaedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, the
Suda . (from
Culture of Greece )
Image 73 Nikos Kazantzakis , one of the most prominent modern Greek writers (from
Culture of Greece )
...that the Greeks were the first to develop an alphabet with vowels ?
...that the Greco-Buddhist art is an artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism , a cultural syncretism between the Greek culture and Buddhism, which developed in Central Asia after the conquests of Alexander the Great ?
...that the Rio–Antirrio bridge between the Peloponnese and mainland Greece is the longest cable stayed-suspended deck in Europe ?
...that the country's highest mountain, Mount Olympus was said to be the home of the Greek Gods in ancient Greek religion?
...that the Olympic Games originated in Greece 3000 years ago, and that the 1st games of the modern Olympics were held in Greece in 1896, as a revival of the Games?
...that the Greek state comprises only the centre of the ancient Greek world , which comprised also Southern Italy, the coastal areas of modern Turkey and the Black Sea, as well as some colonies in North Africa, Southern France and Spain?
...that even though the modern Greek state was established in 1832, some areas of Greece were not liberated until after the Balkan Wars and WW2 ?
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Homer
In Greece, from ancient times down to the present, has been produced countless world-famous poetry in addition to philosophers like Socrates , Plato and Aristotle and historians like Herodotus and Thucydides . Notable figures of modern Greek literature include Odysseas Elytis and Constantine Cavafy .
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Zeus fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.
Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan prehistorical civilization. The art of ancient Greece has exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries from ancient times until the present, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture. In the West, the art of the Roman Empire was largely derived from Greek models. In the East, Alexander the Great's conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Central Asian and Indian cultures. During the Renaissance , the humanist aesthetic and the high technical standards of Greek art inspired generations of European artists.Read more...
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A short video of the main sites at the ancient sanctuary of
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Central Greece . Delphi was considered to be the center of the world by the Greeks and the most important oracle in the Greek world.