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Onoufrios Dovlétis
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* Looking for wit & wisdom, comparisons with pop culture, irony, and storytelling? Welcome to my podcast then! My name is Onoufrios, and I live in Athens 🇬🇷 * As a tour guide, writer & actor 'made in Greece', I aim to give what I call 'awareness tours'. So let's discover together the not-so-frequently-told stories aboupt Greece's history that will change the way you viewed things forever... 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting): * https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis * My Greek podcast: https://t.ly/crYu8

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

    May 16

    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

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

    May 5

    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

    19 min

  3. Apr 16

    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

    16 min

  4. Apr 8

    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

    20 min

  5. Apr 1

    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

    12 min
  6. Korea and Greece 2/2: 'Greece of the East'

    Feb 18

    Korea and Greece 2/2: 'Greece of the East'

    💥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

    8 min

  7. Feb 11

    Valentine's Day and the Greek connection: Eros and Psyche

    * 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/onoufrios_dovletis

    24 min

  8. Jan 26

    Jews and Greece 2/2: From Spain to Greece and Auschwitz

    💥 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?

    24 min
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* Looking for wit & wisdom, comparisons with pop culture, irony, and storytelling? Welcome to my podcast then! My name is Onoufrios, and I live in Athens 🇬🇷 * As a tour guide, writer & actor 'made in Greece', I aim to give what I call 'awareness tours'. So let's discover together the not-so-frequently-told stories aboupt Greece's history that will change the way you viewed things forever... 👉🏼 Let's stay connected (social media, books, acting): * https://linktr.ee/onoufrios_dovletis * My Greek podcast: https://t.ly/crYu8

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