Not another Greek History podcast!

Eurovision politics: Israel, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, 'North Macedonia', Russia & Ukraine

💥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? * Could Greece's history teach Bulgaria something? *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

Turkey & Greece: the rise of the Sultan Erdoğan, his possible Greek roots and a genocide

💥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 envisioning a 'blue homeland' for the Turks 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 throw him in prison? * How Turkish is Erdogan's homeland? * And how did one night in 2016 change the fate of 80 million people forever? *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

Love for Greece VS love for Turkey: Lord Byron VS Pierre Loti

💥 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 did a French officer feel more at home in a fake mosque? * Why did Lord Byron give his life for a reality that Pierre Loti tried to ignore? *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

Hagia Sophia VS mosques and catholic churches

💥 Because size obviously matters, 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 changed the Istanbul skyline just a few years ago? and * Which is really the biggest church in the world? 💥 Stick around until the end to find out the building that actually holds the world records today! *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis

Jesus: What Greeks & Romans said about him

💥 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 become the reason his own name survived history? 👉🏻 Easter episode: https://pod.fo/e/2c7e1c *** 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting profile): https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis