Category Archives: women

2017 – Some impressions from the tourist boat today

Posted on August 27, 2018 by

This week my wife and I spend the holidays in Ouranoupolis at the beautiful Skites resort near the border. Today we took the tourist boat to give my wife a chance to get a glimps of the Holy peninsula after … Continue reading →

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1984 – Pre christian Grave Stele with two women

Posted on March 11, 2018 by

This is the entrance 0f Koutloumousiou seen from the courtyard. On the right side of the porch a pre christian, so called,  Grave Stele is part of the wall.  A stele is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than … Continue reading →

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1949 – Tsipras, the avaton and other politics

Posted on November 7, 2017 by

According to a Flemish website, called Kerknet, the avaton on Athos is threatened by a Greek law considering gender (October 15th 2017). The avaton is the ban of women on the Holy Mountain. Prime Minister Tsipras in happier times visits … Continue reading →

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1760 – lecture about women and Athos by Veronica Della Dora

Posted on October 30, 2015 by

The portrait of Olga Papaloukas with Karyes as background painted by her husband Spyros. On November 10, 2015, Veronica della Dora, Chair of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, will give a lecture in the American School of Classical Studies … Continue reading →

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1350 – Drawings from a sketchbook by Mary Newbold Singer Sargent

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

This drawing is made in 1904 by Mary Newbold Singer Sargent (1826–1906).   She was an amateur artist but the mother of the famous American painter John Singer Sargent. This sketchbook is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art … Continue reading →

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1349 – Female journalist in Ouranoupolis

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

Guardian journalist Dawn Foster writes about women and Athos. Here is a part of her article. Read the complete article here. Plotting to get on the peninsula doesn’t get me very far. In order to enter Athos, you must apply … Continue reading →

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1306 – Queen Olga (and King George I) intend to visit Athos in 1913

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

According to this article from the first of February 1913 King George intended to visit Mount Athos, together with his Russian wife Olga, not long after the Ottoman rule of Athos ended in 1912 (after 500 years!). The same article … Continue reading →

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