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💥Now that the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest is over let's go on an incredible ride into its politics! * How threatening could a song be to require a bulletproof vest? * Does Israel deliberately lose and finish in 2nd place? * Which country participated one and only time? * A bitter name dispute ends, and a scoreboard instantly explodes. Coincidence? * Which king banned his country to never return?...

💥Turkey's rhetoric against Greece is at its finest again. 💥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 on the streets of Istanbul become the most powerful man in Turkey? * Why would a poem be enough to t...

💥 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 di...

💥 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 change...

💥 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...

💥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/...

💥 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...

💥 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?

💥The new movie Nuremberg has everyone talking about Hermann Göring. In this episode, we break down the historical truth behind his family's dark legacy, Russell Crowe's portrayal and why the trials ignored Greece. ♦️ Did Hitler sound like you think he did? ♦️ Was Russell Crowe’s Göring historically accurate? ♦️ Which other Axis powers were deliberately left out? ♦️ Why did the Big Four Allies ign...

💥 The new and final season just started! ♦️ Did a medieval monk name the Demogorgon? ♦️ What scene echoes the Odyssey? ♦️ Is Will Byers a hero, a victim, or is he the key to the ancient Greek underworld? *** 👉🏻 My Synth music list: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11B3P2CSEBZpvtw09PEqrM?si=o34Kf0p2RkC-G57dkNmdrA 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee...

♦️ What if the Pilgrims had consulted a Greek goddess on when to build a colony? ♦️What do 17th-century Pilgrims and ancient Greek farmers have in common? and ♦️Why is the Greek word for 'turkey' a clue that the entire world is confused about poultry? *** 👉🏼 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...! ♦️Did Apollo write the first ever K-Pop hit? ♦️Are the Saja Boys just the Sirens with better choreography? ♦️Was Apollo's big serpent-slaying gig at Delphi history... or just him deleting the previous influencer's account? 👉🏻 Part 2 is here: https://pod.fo/e/392226 *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): h...

💥 In honour of the 2025 Frankenstein film, join me for two episodes covering the Titan Prometheus, the tragic life of Mary Shelley, her influence on cinema, and the scientific 'fire' brought by Benjamin Franklin and Oppenheimer. This is part 2! ♦️ Why is Tim Burton obsessed with stitching together the dead, and is his entire career just one long love letter to Frankenstein? ♦️ Franklin fl...

💥 In honour of the 2025 Frankenstein film, join me for two episodes covering the Titan Prometheus, the tragic life of Mary Shelley, her influence on cinema and Guillermo del Toro's film, and the scientific 'fire' brought by Benjamin Franklin and Oppenheimer. ♦️ Frankenstein created life. Was his crime the making, or the abandoning? ♦️ How did the Romantics revive Frankenstein? ♦️ What was Mary Sh...

♦️ What do Taylor Swift and Greek tragedy have in common — besides killer choruses? ♦️ Did Aristotle predict the Eras Tour 2,300 years ago? ♦️ Is The Life of a Showgirl actually a myth in disguise? ♦️ From Aphrodite to Artemis — is Taylor Swift secretly writing Greek mythology with a guitar? 👉🏻 My T.S. playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/77O1sz9pzBd9FdBkqptfBl?si=L7CMRFeRSlyC_AOtWGdCxg

💥 Before the Halloween franchise hit cinemas, the Greeks already had their own horror franchise: Anthesteria! ♦️ Was Halloween actually born in ancient Greece? ♦️ Did you know the Greeks were howling at cemeteries long before anyone carved a jack-o’-lantern? ♦️ What do ancient Athens, ghost dogs, and vampires have in common? ♦️ Think Halloween is Irish? Wait till you hear about the Greek “Psycho...

💥 A quick episode about what happened with Greece in World War II. ♦️ How did Greece turn Italy's dream into their biggest embarrassment? ♦️ Why did Hitler have to bail out his allies in Greece? ♦️ What made Greece’s stand in World War II echo across the world? 👉🏻 My list with songs about that period: https://t.ly/JTvVw

♦️Was the first robot in history actually built by a Greek god? ♦️What do a bronze giant, Frankenstein, and Blade Runner have in common? ♦️Did the ancient Greeks basically invent AI before Wi-Fi and electricity? ♦️How do you kill an indestructible robot? & ♦️Can a machine have a soul? The Greeks asked that question long before Phillip K. Dick. 👉🏻 My Vangelis list: https://t.ly/ioNbt

♦️ So what does it mean to be Greek, anyway? ♦️ Is Antetokounmpo really the “Greek Freak,” or just Greek when it’s convenient? ♦️ Is it a crime these days to want to keep your identity? ♦️ Why do Americans treat “heritage” like a Halloween costume? ♦️ And what on earth does Dahmer's case say about what it means to be “American”?

♦️ So where did the word coffee actually come from — and no, it’s not Italy. ♦️ Greek or Turkish coffee… or just one really old family feud in a cup? ♦️ Who really invented it — and who just added sugar and took the credit? ♦️ Guess which side UNESCO picked in the coffee wars? ♦️ Which other countries drink it like we do — and which ones just pretend to? ♦️ What coffees did Greeks actually create?...

♦️ When’s the best time to visit Greece — and when will you regret it the moment you land? ♦️ What do you actually do in Santorini — besides melting for Instagram? ♦️ What are the things that make every Greek guide secretly roll their eyes? ♦️ How long should you really stay in Athens — and no, one night isn’t enough. ♦️ And a few tips that could save you from looking like… well, a total tourist....

♦️ How small was the Byzantine Empire by 1453 — and how big were its enemies? ♦️ How did Greece end up inheriting the last emperor of Rome? ♦️ Could the fall of Constantinople have been stopped — or was it doomed? ♦️ Which Europeans were secretly rooting for the Turks? ♦️ When was the last Christian service in Hagia Sophia? ♦️ And how on earth did “Constantinople” turn into “Istanbul”? *** 👉🏻 Le...

♦️ What were the Vikings doing in Byzantium? ♦️ Where were the Seljuk Turks from? ♦️ Who is one of the greatest Greek traitors? & ♦️ Why is this lesser-known battle so significant? *** 👉🏻 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis 👉🏻 My Greek podcast: https://podfollow.com/1779124395