On Friday, November 17, 2023, on the 50th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising, the show “Take Your Time with Prokopis Angelopoulos will host Dr. Maria Herodotou, Coordinator of Greek Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Dr Herodotou “returns” to Athens of 1973, and remembers how she experienced the events of those days, as well as the previous period that started in 1967 when the dark veil of the Dictatorship fell on the political and social life of the country, as a student of the School of Philosophy.
She remembers the days after the uprising, with the harsher junta of Ioannides, as well as everything that happened in 1974, returning to her homeland, Cyprus, when she was forced with her family to leave her family home, which was located in the buffer zone, and return to Athens, with her husband who was still a student in Medical School. Memories that never faded, which she carried with her when she immigrated to Australia shortly afterwards, in 1977.
Mrs. Herodotou reflects on the events of those days and talks about the incorporation of the “Polytechnic” into the global student movements and the timelessness of the values of the uprising.
