European Culture Kaleidoscope : Module 4: Aspects of Culture-eTwinning 2015-16 /3rd General Lyceum of Ilioupolis, Athens by Anna Drakotou https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj We are voting for the 5 most famous people in our country. Why are they important for our world culture? en-us 2016-03-02 19:17:13 UTC 2023-03-25 21:13:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Aristotle the philosopher anna_drakotu https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/101958204 2016-03-21 07:58:59 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/101958204 Papanikolaou George: a doctor anna_drakotu https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/101958316 2016-03-21 08:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/101958316 Maria Kallas : an opera singer anna_drakotu https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/101958417 2016-03-21 08:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/101958417 Odyseas Elytis: a Nobel winning poet anna_drakotu https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/101958571 2016-03-21 08:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/101958571 Melina Merkouri: an actress , a politician and an activist anna_drakotu https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/101958695 2016-03-21 08:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/101958695 Maria Kallas irinisakell1 https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/116948713
Maria Callas, (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977), was a Greek-American soprano, and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina.


Although her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press, her artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called her "the Bible of opera"and her influence so enduring that, in 2006, Opera News wrote of her: "Nearly thirty years after her death, she's still the definition of the diva as artist—and still one of classical music's best-selling vocalists."

]]> 2016-07-25 21:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/116948713 Aristotle the philosopher irinisakell1 https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/116948938 Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC). His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics,aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system ofWestern philosophy. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great starting from 343 BC.]]> 2016-07-25 21:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/116948938 Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou irinisakell1 https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/116949236 was a Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the "Pap smear"
He studied at the University of Athens, where he received his medical degree in 1904. Six years later he received his PhD from the University of Munich, Germany, after he had also spent time at the universities of Jena and Freiburg. In 1910, Papanikolaou  departed for Monaco where he worked for the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco, participating in the Oceanographic Exploration Team of the Prince of Monaco (1911).In 1913 he emigrated to the U.S. in order to work in the department of Pathology of New York Hospital and the Department ofAnatomy at the Cornell Medical College Cornell University.He first reported that uterine cancer could be diagnosed by means of a vaginal smear in 1928, but the importance of his work was not recognized until 1943

]]> 2016-07-25 21:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/116949236 Odysseas Elytis irinisakell1 https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/116949452 was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Besides creating poetry he applied himself to translating poetry and theatre as well as a series of collage pictures. Translations of his poetry have been published as autonomous books, in anthologies or in periodicals in eleven languages.]]> 2016-07-25 21:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/116949452 Melina Mercouri irinisakell1 https://padlet.com/anna_drakotu/9c8cdix686xj/wish/116949602 was a Greek actress, singer and politician.
As an actress she made her film debut in Stella (1955) and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday(1960,), Phaedra, Topkapi, and Promise at Dawn. She won the award for Best Actress at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. She has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two BAFTA Awards.
A political activist during the Greek military junta of 1967–1974, she became a member of the Hellenic Parliament in 1977 and the first female Minister for Culture of Greece in 1981. Mercouri was the person who, in 1983, conceived and proposed the programme of the European Capital of Culture, which has been established by the European Union since 1985.
She was a strong advocate for the return to Athens of the Parthenon Marbles, which were removed from the Parthenon, and are now displayed in the British Museum.

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