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Drawing from her vast experience of studying and teaching Greek Literature, Drama and Mythology, Dr. Lena Hatzichronoglou uses ancient stories and ideas to illuminate the present. You are to have a life changing experience through laughing, learning and questioning.

Invite Lena to speak to your group.

Presentation Topics
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• The Story behind Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Marbles
  
• The Woman behind the Hero
• Cavafy’s: “Interruption”
• How to confront Adversity: Cavafy’s Advice to a Roman General and to Us
• The Journey to Ithaka: From Homer to Cavafy and beyond
• Sophocles’ “Philoctetes” – The meaning of the “wound” in the Hero’s Life and in Our Own
• Euripides’ HELEN
• Hellenism in Asia Minor
• Jean Anouilh’s Antigone
• THE STORY OF THE 300: The Battle of “Thermopylae” in Herodotus and in C. P. Cavafy
• Euripides’ “Bacchae” And Its Profound Relevance for the World of today
• The Message of Euripides’ “Trojan  Women” Or If There Are Losers There Are No Winners
• Homer’s Penelope and Why She Is Important
• The “Goddess” in the “Odyssey” and In Your Life
• Sophocles’ “Antigone” or Confronting the Dilemmas of Our Own Existence
• On Calypso’s Island: Odysseus and You
• Draconian Measures: The History of Athenian Law from Draco to Democracy
• Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
• A Greek Journey of Self Discovery
• “Pandora’s Box”: Then and Now
• “Achilles’ Heel” and Why It Is Important
• Euripides’ “Medea:” Her Choices and Ours
• Solon on Happiness
• An Analysis of Euripides’ “Helen” or What Are the Phantoms That We Are After?
• The Story of Early Greek Art
• Euripides’ “Andromache” or In Search of True Nobility
• Euripides’ “Hecuba” And the Value of Human Life
• Euripides’ “Medea” And the Issue of Loyalty
• Socrates’ “Apology” & the Challenge of Not Fitting In
• The Meaning of Death and Resurrection In the Hero’s Life and in Our Own
• Life Messages From Greek Literature