S o C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A weeKly GReeK-AMeRicAN PUblicAtioN 1915-2016 VOL. 20, ISSUE 1014 March 18-24, 2017 c v $1.50 Berlin In Washington, Kotzias Painter 5th Says US Backs Greek C. Vases Debt Relief, Talks Exhibition TNH Staff heading back to Athens, with US National Security Adviser Lt. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Visit - Gen. H.R. McMaster, Kotzias Works by the Ancient ing Foreign Minister Nikos outlined the importance of the Kotzias told reporters after ties Greece has nurtured, along Greek master at meeting top US officials that with key ally Cyprus, with Is - America supports Greece’s effort rael, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan Princeton Univ. Art to get debt relief from its inter - and the Palestinian authority, national creditors and discussed the report said. TNH Staff its’ role as a potential Mediter - He also referred to efforts to ranean hub and wanted calming boost ties with Armenia and PRINCETON, NJ – A major in - of provocations from Turkey Georgia. ternational exhibition of classi - over the Aegean. The collapsed United Na - cal Greek vases opened on During his two-day trip to tions-backed Cyprus unity talks March 4 at the Princeton Uni - the US, Kotzias portrayed cash- were also raised, with Kotzias versity Art Museum. The Berlin crunched Greece, in the depths saying it was because of Painter and His World: Athenian of a seven-year economic crisis, Turkey’s insistence on keeping Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth as nonetheless a stable partner an army and military interven - Century BC runs through June in the volatile Balkans and tion rights over the island di - 11 and “is a celebration of an - prospects for being a conduit for vided since an unlawful inva - cient Greece and of the ideals energy from the Middle East, sion in 1974. of reason, proportion, and hu - Russia and Turkey to the Euro - Kotzias said foreign troops man dignity that are its legacy,” pean Union. shouldn’t be allowed on Cyprus, as noted on the exhibition web - Kotzias said he was confident although Greece has a presence site. The extraordinary work of that leading US officials ac - there too, although Turkey – un - a single anonymous master ar - knowledge Greece’s geostrategic like Greece and Cyprus – doesn’t tisan of the Late Archaic period, value, and that there was belong to the European Union named the Berlin Painter by “agreement over the great need although it wants to join while British classicist and art histo - for stability and security in the still refusing to recognize rian Sir John Beazley in 1911 AP Photo/Molly Riley region,” Kathimerini reported Cyprus and barring its ships and after an amphora in the Berlin Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias met with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the State about his visit. Museum is highlighted in the Department in Washington, DC to discuss global security among other issues. In his final meeting before Continued on page 9 exhibition. Providing a window into ancient Athenian society at a time of economic growth and cultural flourishing through the art of vase-painting, the Berlin Eurozone Chief: Greece Must Hit Targets Painter’s work is the largest body of pictorial imagery to have survived from antiquity. TNH Staff rescue packages that have although they are already being The myths, cult, and daily life propped up the stagnant Greek revised for another shot at get - are depicted on red-figure vases Eurozone chief Jeroen Dijs - economy since 2010 when pre - ting the okay, and that they and inspire questions on love selbloem told his Dutch Parlia - vious government sought aid af - would “certainly” be activated and war, life and death that res - ment that Greece will first have ter decades of wild overspend - if the primary surplus is onate today. to hit fiscal targets as part of an ing and runaway patronage achieved. The Berlin Painter’s influen - 86-billion euro ($91.52 billion) decimated the economy. If not, the government had tial, elegant style has been ap - third bailout before the coun - Greece insists that whatever previously agreed to an auto - preciated for centuries, and yet, try’s lenders will discuss coun - austerity measures it takes to matic budget cutting mecha - this is the first exhibition de - termeasures. meet fiscal targets after 2018 nism but is trying to rework that voted to the artist. Eighty-four Greek Prime Minister and are countered with others, such as well with Tsipras’ reneging vessels and statuettes of the Radical Left SYRIZA leader as a lowering of the Value on anti-austerity vows sending early fifth century BC from mu - Alexis Tsipras said he wants the Added Tax (TAX) just hiked his – and SYRIZA’s – popularity seums and private collections creditors – who have rejected again this year. into the basement. around the world are on display. his first attempt at measures Tsipras, crossing his own self- Euro Working Group presi - Viewers can explore the ele - countering a new austerity declared Red Lines, agreed to dent Thomas Wieser earlier told ments of the artist’s style and avalanche he agreed to impose more pension cuts, taxing the the Greek business newspaper the unique insights into life after vowing to reject it – to al - poor and taking rights away Naftemporiki that countervail - 2,500 years ago in Greece. low them without having to from workers in return for the ing measures would be imple - The Berlin Painter and His reach economic benchmarks, in - release of more monies from the mented “only after” creditors eURoKiNiSSi World: Athenian Vase-Painting cluding a primary surplus of 3.5 third bailout and the prospect determined that fiscal targets Pyatt Tours the Cathedral of Athens in the Early Fifth Century BC. percent of Gross Domestic Prod - of negotiating debt relief. were met or surpassed. has been made possible by gen - uct (GDP). Government spokesman Dissent within SYRIZA is US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt viewed the newly erous support from Annette That surplus wouldn’t in - Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said growing as well, with even In - renovated Metropolitan Cathedral with Father Thomas Syn - Merle-Smith; the Stavros Niar - clude interest on the 326 billion Greece was confident the coun - odinos, and praised the Church’s response to the financial and chos Foundation; the Leon Levy euros ($346.91 billion) in three termeasures would be approved Continued on page 9 refugee crisis. Foundation; Hiram Butler; James and Marilyn Simons; the Stanley J. Seeger ’52 Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton Uni - versity; Frederick H. Shultz Jr., Markides: From Agnostic to Orthodox Believer Professor Class of 1976; and Susan and John Diekman, Class of 1965. Amphorae, kraters, hydrias, By Stephanie Nikolopoulos earn a business degree and then from agnosticism was some - “As we were going on the Cosmopoulos stamnoi and lekythoi by Greek return to Cyprus. However, be - thing that happened to me as a boat and passing one monastery artists from the early fifth cen - “I came to the conclusion ing in the United States during graduate student.” The profes - after the other, I had the impres - tury BC, including 54 works by that real spirituality was found the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Mis - sor had him write a paper on a sion I was going back in time.” Inducted the Berlin Painter, depict the so - outside of the Church – that was sile Crisis, and the assassination lesser-known philosopher who The first monk he met was Fa - cial, political, religious and artis - my prejudice,” Dr. Kyriacos of JFK, he discovered: “there posited that secularism had ther Maximos, who helped tic workings of Athens at the Markides confessed in his were certain things business reached its zenith and that cul - guide him on his spiritual jour - By Theodore Kalmoukos time. Major loans from the An - Lenten lecture My Personal Dis - could not answer for me.” ture was now moving back to - ney into mystical spirituality covery of Orthodoxy on March Turning to sociology, he ward faith. Markides then began and introduced him to an elder ST. LOUIS, MO – Greek-Ameri - Continued on page 2 1 at the Archdiocesan Cathedral found that the great thinkers studying Eastern religions after who had the spiritual gift of per - can professor Michael Cos - in New York. Through stories of lauded by academia – such as a professor taught him to medi - forming miraculous healings. mopoulos was inducted into sojourns and miraculous heal - Nietzsche and Freud – tried to tate. Finally, a friend who was Markides recounts the story in prestigious European Academy ings, he then went on to show debunk God. This relativism taking a sabbatical on Mount his books Riding with the Lion of Sciences and Arts. Dr. Cos - why he changed from an agnos - challenged him “to the core.” Athos – the “Holy Mountain” and The Mountain of Silence. mopoulos is the Hellenic Govern - The Legend tic student to a professor of so - Markides realized: “You take that is home to twenty Eastern When Markides began speak - ment-Karakas Foundation Profes - ciology and practicing Christian. God out, and anything goes. It’s Orthodox monasteries – invited ing about the work of the mystic sor of Greek Studies and Greek Orthodoxy was part of kind of a nihilistic view.” Even him to join him. “I thank my and psychic Daskalos, the audi - Professor of Archaeology at the of Chora the Cyprus-born Markides’ “cul - so, he said: “By the time I got wife for urging me, ‘Why don’t ence at the Cathedral peppered University of Missouri - St. Louis.