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Like Odysseus

Nikol Liakostavrou

Narrative stories featuring tributes to places, figures, and events in history, art, and culture.

Tontor Giouloglou: A refugee’s Odyssey | 20 Sept. 2025
A Biographical Novel by Petros Triantafyllidis – Koukkida Publications Tontor Giouloglou, grandfather of the author Petros Triantafyllidis, was born in 1883 in Safranbolu, on the Black Sea, and died in Athens, in Kalogreza, in 1973, at the age of 90. An Odysseus of his era: over nine decades h...
Like Odysseus: The Greeks Deify Their Tyrants | 13 Sept. 2025
GRAECULUS: A 2,000-Year-Old Hubris It was Latin writers who first laid the groundwork for anti-Hellenism—and spread it widely. Cicero was among them. Graeculus: “little Greek”—frivolous, vulgar, insignificant. Cicero conceded that the Greeks possessed talents and skills, yet he questioned the one...
Like Odysseus: “Mapping the Postwar Order” | 06 Sept. 2025
“The United Europe of the Third Reich” (Tasos Kostopoulos, columnist) “Greece of the New Order” (Vasilis Manousakis, Historian; his doctoral dissertation “Economy and Politics in Greece during WWII” was defended at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) [Source: Efimerida ton Syntakton – “The Ghos...
Like Odysseus: “Summer Radio Party” | 30 Aug. 2025
with Nikoletta Liakostavrou Radio Summer Party!!! A two-hour summer party with the “VinylHolics”! For those who didn’t go on holiday, for those just back from holiday, and for those about to go on holiday! Dimitris Gletzakos, Giorgos and Spyros Arvanitakis on Voice of Greece—back again a...
Like Odysseus: Vicky Moscholiou | 16 Aug. 2025
** Vicky Moscholiou was, always, a conservative person in ideas and views - yet at the same time free. She was never ashamed to speak about what she believed, about what had marked her life, about her devotion to the motto ‘fatherland, religion, family’ - to put it somewhat provocatively - without thi...
Like Odysseus: Woodstock | 09 Aug. 2025
with Nikoletta Liakostavrou The beloved “Vinyl-Holics”, Dimitris Gletzakos and Giorgos Arvanitakis, are back in the Voice of Greece studio to take us on a journey to Woodstock, August 1969—the greatest music festival in history, to this day! Joining us is the “young” Spyros Arvanitakis, musician....
Like Odysseus: Arthur Staal | 02 Aug. 2025
with Nikol Liakostavrou ARTHUR STAAL: TRAVEL NOTES ON THE GREEK LANDSCAPE(written by Foivos Panigirakis) Arthur Staal, a young Dutch architect, published the book "Hellas: Een reis door Griekenland" (Hellas: A Journey through Greece) in 1944, during the Nazi occupation. He had travelled throughout...
Like Odysseus: The Bloody 22nd of July 1943 | 26 July 2025
“The great demonstration of 22 July 1943 against the planned expansion of the Bulgarian occupation zone” – Panagiota Stathopoulou (17-year-old EPON member): stood in front of a tank, attempting to stop it with her body. She was struck, injured—or possibly killed—by the crew.– Koula Lili (19-year-ol...
Like Odysseus with guest Giorgos Skarlatos | 19 July 2025
with Nikol Liakostavrou GIORGOS SKARLATOS (Ex–Magic de Spell & Art Telepaths) A presence, a story, an era. Mr. "Ex–Magic de Spell – Art Telepaths", founding member of the band, voice and bass, joins us live in the studio for two hours. From the punk scene of the '80s to the present day. ...
Like Odysseus: “The First Hotels of Athens” | 12 July 2025
From 21st-century Airbnb to the first hotels of the 19th and early 20th centuries, in a capital city just beginning to take shape — Athens. Once upon a time, it’s said that guests used to bring their own beds to the inns and lodgings of the city. (Source: article by Stavros Malagkoniaris, Efi...
Like Odysseus: A maritime story by Manolis Dimellas | 05 July 2025
"The boatswain Mastromanolís’s dream… the tragedy of the 'Luisa'" "This must be what hell looks like! Exactly 17:53, Saturday afternoon, 5 June 1965 – we were living through the most horrific thing a sailor could ever witness. A tragic accident. The Italian oil tanker LUISA, 32,400 tons, was moored...
Like Odysseus: The poet D. I. Antoniou | 28 June 2025
He was both a captain and a poet. From Kasos.A figure immortalized in six essays written about him by G. Seferis, Z. Lorentzatos, Klem. Paraschos, G.M. Myloyiannis, K.D. Tsatsos, G. Theotokas, and A. Karantonis—compiled in a book published in 1961 by Typographia (F. Konstantinidis & K. Michalas, A...
“Like Odysseus” with guest Guest Fotis Stamatopoulos | 21 June 2025
From the JAM rehearsal studio to the concerts at Kyttaro. A timeless stroll, a guided tour, a storytelling by Fotis Stamatopoulos. With us in the studio—for as long as time allows—Fotis Stamatopoulos: musician, visual artist, creative, entrepreneur, set designer at “Kyttaro”, and a child of the ...
“Evangelistria”: The Odyssey of a Cargo Boat | 14 June 2025
"Like Odysseus" with Nikol Liakostavrou A tribute to the remarkable journey of the historic cargo boat Evangelistria — one of the last surviving Aegean sailing vessels of the perama type. Perama boats were traditional commercial sailing ships, the final descendants of a maritime tradition that r...
Like Odysseus with guest Achilleas Moraitis | 31 May 2025
Achilleas Moraitis was born in Athens. He began his musical journey at the age of five, studying classical violin. In his teenage years, he was captivated by rock music and taught himself to play the guitar. Since 2014, he has been active professionally, performing at music venues and participating...
Like Odysseus with guest poet Katerina Tsakou | 24 May 2025
The Light, the Iris, the Red Fruits and Covid (Το Φως, η Ίριδα, τα Κόκκινα Φρούτα και ο Covid): A poetry collection born in the time of Covid, as Katerina Tsakou wandered through her beloved Cape Maleas, in the Vatika region of Mani - always facing East. Her verse echoes the colors and brushstrokes o...
Like Odysseus: The Oria shipwreck | 16 May 2025
"February 1944 — A journey that began in Rhodes with the intended destination of Nazi concentration camps never reached its end for 4,155 people. The “living-dead” Italian prisoners of war were locked in the holds of the Norwegian steamship Oria when the vessel, caught in a violent storm, crashed into ...
Like Odysseus: Dimitris I. Antoniou – Captain and Poet | 11 May 2025
The Odyssey of Dimitris I. Antoniou: Captain and Poet - A maritime biographical tale "A unique blend of sea voyages and trapped, untamed time, bound tightly with iron and the wooden timbers of ships.. This was Captain Dimitris Antoniou, who, when ashore, shunned the spotlight, avoided unnecessary...
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