Category Archives: women

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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1302 – Dutch newspaper article from 1938: Alika Diplarakou on Athos and the 80-year old man, who never saw a woman in his live!

Posted on June 3, 2012 by

Today I found this article about Athos (and lot more!) from 23th of May 1938, published in a newspaper “De Sumatra Post”. It discribes the story of the Greek beauty queen and miss Europe, Alika Diplarakou, who illegally entered Athos … Continue reading →

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1238 – again: Women on Athos?

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

Vasilis showed me this article published today, from Sasa Milosevic, a journalist of Huffingtonpost.com. The article does not give us a lot of new information about the subject, but it does lead to us to some interesting links concerning the “women on … Continue reading →

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1222 – Women on Mount Athos by Joe Lockard

Posted on May 24, 2011 by

Holy Misogyny, article by Joe Lockard 24 may 2011: “One of the more astonishing moments among autobiographies I have read appears in Maryse Choisy’s Un Mois Chez les Hommes (1929). In preparation for a visit to Mount Athos, the long peninsula … Continue reading →

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