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"Remember me and love me": A mejor exhibition on Melina Mercouri at Technopolis

From January 18 to March 11, 2022, the exhibition "Remember me and love me" dedicated to the life and works of late Greek artist and politician Melina Mercouri will be open to the public at the Technopolis cultural complex in Athens.

Organized of the Municipality of Athens in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Melina Mercouri Foundation, the exhibition will mark the 100th anniversary since Mercouri’s birth.

Melina Mercouri, or just Melina – as Greeks call her – was an award-winning actress, activist and politician who served two terms as minister for Culture (1981-1989 and 1993-1994), the first woman to occupy the post. One of her most enduring legacies as a minister for Culture was her passionate advocation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, a difficult cause that has gained great international traction only lately, 40 years later. With her inexhaustible vitality, rare charm and her international radiance, Mercouri was one of a kind and definitely among the most important Greeks of the 20th century.

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The grave of Melina Mercouri (1920 - 1994), Greek actress, singer, politician and Minister of Culture

The First Cemetery, Athens, Greece, April 2017

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Αστέρι μου φεγγάρι μου (Αγάπη μου) (My star, my moon) Melina Mercouri sings the song Asteri mou feggari mou, a lovely Greek song which means “My star, my moon”, in English. Asteri mou feggari mou was composed by Mikis Theodorakis and is also known as the love theme of the movie Phaedra, starring Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins. Phaedra was a 1962 motion picture directed by Jules Dassin as a vehicle for his wife Melina Mercouri, after her world-wide hit Never on Sunday. --- My star, my moon, my spring flower I'll come next to you again, I'll come next to you one dawn so that I take a kiss from you, and you take me again my love, my love, the night will take us away the stars and the sky and the cold moon I'll love you, I'll live in the song you'll love me, you'll live with the birds I'll love you, we'll become a song you'll love me, we'll become birds The river is too shallow and the ocean is too small to take away my longing To turn away your eyes to suppress your oaths from my thought --- Αστέρι μου, φεγγάρι μου, της άνοιξης κλωνάρι μου κοντά σου θά `ρθω πάλι, κοντά σου θά `ρθω μιαν αυγή για να σου πάρω ένα φιλί και να με πάρεις πάλι. Αγάπη μου, αγάπη μου, η νύχτα θα μας πάρει, τ’ άστρα κι ο ουρανός, το κρύο το φεγγάρι. Θα σ’ αγαπώ, θα ζω μες στο τραγούδι θα μ’ αγαπάς, θα ζεις με τα πουλιά θα σ’ αγαπώ, θα γίνουμε τραγούδι θα μ’ αγαπάς, θα γίνουμε πουλιά. Ο ποταμός είναι ρηχός κι ο ωκεανός είναι μικρός να πάρουν τον καημό μου. Να διώξουνε τα μάτια σου να πνίξουνε τους όρκους σου από το λογισμό μου.

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KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS: Boris's opportunity to return Elgin Marbles

Greek Prime Minister KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS writes about his meeting with PM Boris Johnson, where he promised not to stand in the way of talks over the future of the Elgin Marbles

Only a handful of Britain’s past Prime Ministers have studied classics at university. Fewer still would ever have shouted about the influence of Ancient Greece on their political thinking. None, I suspect, cited an Athenian statesman from the 5th Century BC as one of their heroes.

And then came Boris Johnson. Ever the contrarian, Britain’s Prime Minister has done all three.

Classics at Oxford. An intuitive understanding of what classical civilisation has given to the modern world. A man who even owns a bust of Pericles, the hero in question.

More than most, Boris Johnson understands the unique bond that ties modernity to ancient history.

Which is why, when I met with him last week in Downing Street, he told me that he understood the strength of feeling among the Greek people when it comes to one of the few dividing lines between Greece and the UK: the future of the Parthenon Sculptures.

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Mikis Theodorakis & Melina Mercouri O Dikastis Ο Δικαστής

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Melina Mercouri was born on this day in 1920. Αστέρι μου φεγγάρι μου (Αγάπη μου) (My star, my moon) Melina Mercouri sings the song Asteri mou feggari mou, a lovely Greek song which means “My star, my moon”, in English. Asteri mou feggari mou was composed by Mikis Theodorakis and is also known as the love theme of the movie Phaedra, starring Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins. Phaedra was a 1962 motion picture directed by Jules Dassin as a vehicle for his wife Melina Mercouri, after her world-wide hit Never on Sunday. — My star, my moon, my spring flower I’ll come next to you again, I’ll come next to you one dawn so that I take a kiss from you, and you take me again my love, my love, the night will take us away the stars and the sky and the cold moon I’ll love you, I’ll live in the song you’ll love me, you’ll live with the birds I’ll love you, we’ll become a song you’ll love me, we’ll become birds The river is too shallow and the ocean is too small to take away my longing To turn away your eyes to suppress your oaths from my thought — Αστέρι μου, φεγγάρι μου, της άνοιξης κλωνάρι μου κοντά σου θά `ρθω πάλι, κοντά σου θά `ρθω μιαν αυγή για να σου πάρω ένα φιλί και να με πάρεις πάλι. Αγάπη μου, αγάπη μου, η νύχτα θα μας πάρει, τ’ άστρα κι ο ουρανός, το κρύο το φεγγάρι. Θα σ’ αγαπώ, θα ζω μες στο τραγούδι θα μ’ αγαπάς, θα ζεις με τα πουλιά θα σ’ αγαπώ, θα γίνουμε τραγούδι θα μ’ αγαπάς, θα γίνουμε πουλιά. Ο ποταμός είναι ρηχός κι ο ωκεανός είναι μικρός να πάρουν τον καημό μου. Να διώξουνε τα μάτια σου να πνίξουνε τους όρκους σου από το λογισμό μου.

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Melina Mercouri & Vangelis - Athina (Greek version) (1973)

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It has been 27 years since Melina Mercouri's death, in 1994 (October 18, 1920 - March 6, 1994), a charismatic actress, activist and politician, one of the most influential women of Greece in the 20th century. She played a leading role in the struggle against the military dictatorship in 1967 – 1974 and left her mark on Modern Greek culture launching a campaign for the return of the Parthenon marbles to Greece. Read more about Melina Mercouri via Greek News Agenda here: https://greeknewsagenda.gr/index.php/topics/culture-society/6945-remembering-melina