david hogan

Category: Greece | Bulgaria

  • Oedipus Wrecks the Shoreline: The Coastal Development Proposal in Greece

    “If your age could understand, children, Full many counsels I could give.” Greek tragedies play out like no others, as if to remind us of the work of their ancient masters. As there once was a plague in Sophocles’ Thebes,…

  • The Sacred and the Desecrated

    One evening, while cruising the wine-dark sea off Psathura, a deserted island in Northern Greece, I thought that an epiphany was at hand.  This may have had something to do with the heat and the ouzo, however, because that epiphany…

  • Sunday Morning Comin’ Down (in Greece)

    On a Sunday morning in the large amphitheater of my Greek Island village, the male voices of the psaltis from three distinct churches could be heard concurrently.  In the Carnegie Hall-like acoustics of the village, their unamplified chants arrived at…