Pan Macedonian Association of Melbourne and Victoria in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia | Social service

Pan Macedonian Association of Melbourne and Victoria

Locality: Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 411 832 551

Address: 470 Queens Parade, Clifton Hill. 3068 Clifton Hill, VIC, Australia

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22.01.2022 Watch here for Webinar #2 with Gregory Kontos and Greek Ancestry This webinar is the second part of the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne & Victoria "Leonidas" wonderful series commmemorating the 2500th Year Anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae. . !

21.01.2022 Our thoughts go out to Beirut and it’s people as Greece stands in solidarity with our Lebanese neighbours. The state of this world...No words #enough

18.01.2022 -- Interesting Read -- The Plague of Athens Until relatively recently, Greek words such as ‘pandemic’ and ‘epidemic’ were not part of our... daily lexicon. The coronavirus has expanded our vocabularies, and the way that we talk about this deadly disease in 2020 would not have sounded so strange to an ancient Greek. In 430 B.C., during the second year of the Peloponnesian War, Athens was ravaged by a mysterious plague ( ) that sent the city into chaos, claiming some 100,000 lives. Thucydides described the folly, ...the catastrophe was so overwhelming that men, not knowing what would happen next to them, became indifferent to every rule of religion or law. This painting from the seventeenth century by Michael Sweerts displays the anguish and horror of a city devastated by illness. The figures kneel in prayer, cry out in agony and are struck with horror. We may be less demonstrative and theatrical today but the ancient anxieties persist. Stay Tuned For Our Next Interesting Read!!

17.01.2022 We are so excited to hear Daphne Martin speak tonight on archeology and heritage preservation in Sparta and Lakonia. Daphne is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and studied Classics and Art History at Yale. Well done Daphne and to the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne & Victoria "Leonidas" for this amazing series of lectures commemorating the 2500th Anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae

16.01.2022 Whether you're in high school, undergrad, postgrad or just want to find a way of pursuing Greek studies, we would strongly recommend attending this online event hosted by our friends at NUGAS Victoria where amazing speakers will be talking about their experiences in the discipline ! !!

15.01.2022 One of our dancers and members Olympia is speaking tonight on a treasure of the Peloponnese: Mystras. This is the first of the lecture series hosted by the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne & Victoria Youth Committee, commemorating the 2500 Year Anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae. Come show your support and watch this fantastic lecture tonight! Time - 6:30pm... Where - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82823546033

09.01.2022 ***DONATE NOW**** ILMA-ALMA Emergency Food Appeal for Lebanon. Please donate to help those in need. For more details please contact Dr. Walid Ahmar ([email protected]). Before or after you transfer any money please inform ILMA representatives in your country so that we can record all donors and ensure that they know that the money they have transferred has occurred appropriately. All donors will be issued with a certificate of acknowledgement and appreciation from ILMA.

06.01.2022 In the same way that there are Christian buildings in Constantinople, so too are there Muslim buildings in Greece, in particular Crete which is home to many rem...nants of the Ottoman period. In Xania, architecture from Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman buildings coexists in the landscape of the city. As far as Islamic architecture is concerned, one of the more significant examples is the Mosque of the Janissaries ( ), located in the old Venetian Harbor, erected in 1645 when the Ottomans captured Xania. Paralleling the Hagia Sophia, the Mosque was built on the grounds of a former church. The building stopped functioning as a religious building in 1923 and since then it has been used as a café, restaurant and a tourist office. More recently however it has been used as a space dedicated to art exhibitions. This shows the ways in which old buildings can be repurposed, where the original pious meaning is frozen but not lost or annulled. See more

06.01.2022 Listen to Mr. Mark Selleck who is speaking now on the history of the Battle of Thermopylae; the very battle that the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne & Victoria "Leonidas" is commemorating with this brilliant series of lectures The three-day battlewhere 300 Spartans defended the Thermopylae against invading Persianswould acquire legendary status and is one of the most important hallmarks of Greek history. to Mark and to our friends at the Pallaconian Brotherhood.

04.01.2022 Well done Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne & Victoria "Leonidas"

04.01.2022 This day 80 years ago, Greece demonstrated its strength, triumph and victory as an independent nation for the freedom and liberty of its citizens. On the 28th October 1940, the former Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas declared ‘OXI’ to the then Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, whose ultimatum was to either allow Italian forces to invade and occupy parts of Greece or face war. Faced with this callous demand, Metaxas delivered a response in French, the diplomatic... language of the day, Alors, c'est la guerre, meaning Then it is war. This phrase was quickly contracted into ‘Oxi’ by the citizens of Athens. Metaxas’ simple but strong and resounding ‘oxi’, signified a resolute refusal to accept Mussolini’s ultimatum. As a result of the Greeks’ refusal to surrender, events that ensued during the following months would ultimately change the entire course of the war. Winston Churchill famously said If there had not been the virtue and courage of the Greeks, we do not know which the outcome of World War II would have been. #oxiday # #metaxas #ellada #28 # See more

03.01.2022 --- ZOOM LINK --- Hello Everyone! The Lecture Series in commemoration for the 2500th Anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae has received overwhelmingly possit...ive feedback so far, thank you! For those who wish to join the Zoom call (in which questions may be asked at the end) please follow the link below, which will open at 6:00pm on Tuesday 25th of August 2020. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84631620300 Topic: Webinar #3 - The Battle of Thermopylae Speaker: Mark Selleck - History Podcaster Meeting ID: 846 3162 0300 For those who cannot make the Zoom lecture, it will be simultaneously streamed live (and recorded) on the Pallaconian Brotherhood's Facebook Page. Can't wait to see you all there again!

02.01.2022 Olympia is speaking tonight on a treasure of the Peloponnese: Mystras. This is the first of the lecture series hosted by the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne & Victoria Youth Committee, commemorating the 2500 Year Anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae