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                                                                                                  ~Μάρω Χατζησωτηρίου Γ3~

Νάσου Μαρία Γ5

Easter, also called Pascha is a Christian celebration and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent a 40-day period of fasting and prayer. Pascha is one of the most important and unique Christian events. For this reason there are lots of customs and traditions about it.

                1. Dyeing the Red Easter eggs on Holy Thursday

In Greece, Easter eggs are not chocolate eggs. They are real chicken eggs, but not the usual ones – they are first hard boiled, and then dyed red.

Traditionally, people used to dye the eggs on Holy Thursday, using a colorant produced from onion peel. This gave the eggs a deep red colour, which is symbolic of the blood of Jesus Christ.

 Nowadays, we normally buy special red dye to paint the eggs. Ready-made red eggs are also available at supermarkets and

street markets. Some people paint the eggs in different colours, or decorate them using stickers.

On Easter Sunday, people play a traditional game of cracking the red eggs.

                              2. Baking Easter sweets – Tsoureki

On Holy Thursday, Christians traditionally prepare lots of types of Easter sweets. One of these is ΄tsoureki΄

The ΄tsoureki΄ is a type of traditional sweet bread, with a fluffy, chewy texture. It contains flour, butter, eggs, sugar, milk and spices. Making a tsoureki is an important Easter tradition in Greece.

                               3. The Resurrection on Easter Saturday

On Holy Saturday, there are various church services during the day. Late in the evening, people gather outside the church in expectation of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which we call Anastasi in Greek.

The Holy Light, which signifies the Resurrection, arrives from Jerusalem. Exactly at midnight, the flame quickly spreads among the crowd as everyone in the congregation lights their candle.

This is a solemn event, but it is now one of joy, and is accompanied by loud chiming bells and plenty of fireworks and firecrackers.

Then everyone returns home, holding their lit candles. It is customary to make a cross out of candle smoke on the ceiling, just above the entrance door.

Νάκα Βασιλική  Γ2

           The first Friday right after Easter Christians celebrate the day of “Zoodohou Pigis ” dedicated to the mother of God. «The Life giving source», a chapel dedicated to Virgin Mary. At a village called “Κalifito-Dramma” there is a small church dedicated to this day.

The most important place at this church is a little cave inside which, you can find holy water. The days after Easter the residents visit the cave and they leave candles and red painted eggs.

The place is decorated with many saints’ pictures. Everyone that visits this cave can only feel calmness and peacefulness.

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                                     Μάρω Χατζησωτηρίου  Γ3

by Maria Chatzisotiriou Γ3

Last summer my dad and I went to Thessaloniki to see the play Eleni of Euripides.The performance of the State Theater of Northern Greece premiered at the Forest Theater, directed by Vassilis Papavassiliou. Eleni of Euripides is one of the hybrid and very interesting works of the ancient Greek literature full of action and mobility of the heroes. In the course of the project there is what we would say a sense of ripple. And this is the great difficulty of «Eleni». Difficulty and charm together. Eleni is capable of many colors of interpretation.

Vassilis Papavassiliou who is very experienced took the heroes from the pedestal of the epic and presents them realistically, as living and not perfect people, who walk on a modern theatrical path and, perhaps, more painless, since adorns with comic elements and intense doses of parody. The style, the line of the performance has a conceptual meaning and stigmatizes a modern perception of hilarious tragedy. The moral, philosophical or social issues of the tragedy emerge on the scene and prove that our troubled time is a fruitful period for the revival of ancient Greek drama.

                                              Eleni (Emily Koliandri)

 The simple scenery symbolizes the country of Egypt, with its emblematic elements scattered (pyramids, palm trees) in the orchestra. His costumes are in the glittering shades of lame fabric. All together they embrace the tomb of Proteus, while the troupe with a sense of stage time and codes with a special load, and complete an alternative way of approaching tragic poetry, through concepts such as musicality, purity, cheerful centrality. The discreet lighting choices skillfully illuminated even the least readable aspects of the work and in combination with the atmospheric sounds of jazz, tango and other solid sounds, contributed the most to a perfectly harmonized, scalable sound on stage. The movement on the other hand was playful, suggestive and laxative, in perfect agreement with the direction of the play. With more detailed speech and responsible interventions in the choirs, the translator Pantelis Boukalas rendered the style and meaning of Euripidean speech, with maturity, but also timeless touches, which connect the past with the present in a cheerful, grotesque and extremely successful coupling.

                              Eleni and women of the Dance

The Euripidean climate was therefore rendered reborn, fresh, enriched with modern elements, projecting Eleni, as a work that does not represent the modern, but is actually one. It is a smashing result, worthy of the spectators” expectations. Euripides is characterized as the stage philosopher. With «Eleni» Euripides expresses his own views and concerns on various issues: rationalism, divination, the right way of thinking and acting, God, the institution of slavery. These issues occupied the philosophers of his time, so he seems to be a philosopher on stage. Through the intellect of persons, he expresses his philosophical ideas.

 Whether a cloud in Troy or an incarnation in Egypt, Eleni, despite her numerous representations and readings, remains between the «is» and the «appear» mythical personality over time. The unique beauty, the incompatible desire, the insulted personal revolution, the return to the marital bed… Either as a cause or as a latent reason, sieges, riots, tragic losses and a long war bears its name. Between life and death, her lyrical-dramatic image is decisive.

              Eleni (Emily Koliandri) and Theoklymenos (George Kafkas)

The lights of the theater are on. The spectators take their seats. They chat quietly and wait. First, second, third bell, the lights go out. The show begins. At this moment, probably no spectator wonders how far are the roots of the show that unfolds before his eyes.

 Historical frame

Eleni of Euripides was written in 412 BC and appeared for the first time at the same time, that is, the Sicilian campaign had just ended with the destruction of the Athenian fleet. At the same time, the sophist movement was developing, which had begun to question traditional values ​​and, with the criticism of its representatives, was causing a crisis in the democratic state and phenomena of disrespect. In this context, Euripides with the tragedy of Eleni condemns the war as the consul of all evils and under the pretext of Eleni tried to emphasize the absurdity of the Trojan War. Thus, in the absurdity of the view that for a woman  people and a state can be exterminated and thousands of Greeks killed, Euripides will answer with the absurdity of the «idol», that is, the myth he uses literary is not his Homeric version, but this created by the lyric poet Stisichoros. After the one and only that Homer gives us. To come after the others, of the aforementioned poets, historians and orators, but also later ones such as Isocrates, Ronsard, Goethe, Offenbach, Girondou, Ritsos and others, and others, of that number. And so on. «

            Gerontissa (Efi Stamouli) and Menelaos (Themis Panou)

Case

Euripides claims that the real Eleni never went to Troy. Only her idol went there. That is because Hermes stole her idol, following the will of Hera, and handed it over to Proteus, the king of Egypt, to protect it. But when he died, his son Theoclymenos tried to make her his wife and she fled as a beggar to the tomb of Proteus. So Menelaos is presented in it. He has lost his ships at sea and is trying to save his few companions who are hiding in a cave. The two spouses are recognized and after a fraudulent plan they manage to secretly return to their homeland.

                                                   The Troupe

Το παρακάτω αρχείο αφορά το stress ως ένα πολύ διαδεδομένο πρόβλημα το οποίο ενδεχομένως αφορά εμάς προσωπικά και θα θέλαμε να μάθουμε τι πραγματικά είναι και πώς να το διαχειριστούμε!

I am speechless!!!

Now take a closer look!!!

What a unique way to attach the painting to her composition!!!

I am stunned!!!

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