Ο υπουργός Εξωτερικών της Τουρκίας Χακάν Φιντάν δήλωσε από την Ντόχα ότι η Άγκυρα στηρίζει πλήρως τις διεθνείς προσπάθειες για την επαναλειτουργία των Στενών του Ορμούζ, τονίζοντας πως η κρίσιμη θαλάσσια δίοδος «δεν πρέπει να χρησιμοποιείται ως όπλο». Η τοποθέτηση έγινε κατά τη διάρκεια κοινής συνέντευξης Τύπου με τον πρωθυπουργό του Κατάρ, σε μια περίοδο όπου ο πόλεμος με το Ιράν και η ένταση στον Κόλπο έχουν περιορίσει σημαντικά την ελευθερία της ναυσιπλοΐας και έχουν προκαλέσει σοβαρές οικονομικές επιπτώσεις στα κράτη της περιοχής. Ο Τούρκος ΥΠΕΞ υπογράμμισε ότι η σταθερότητα στα Στενά του Ορμούζ αποτελεί κρίσιμο παράγοντα για την ενεργειακή ασφάλεια και τις εμπορικές ροές, ενώ επανέλαβε ότι η Τουρκία υποστηρίζει κάθε διπλωματική πρωτοβουλία που στοχεύει στην αποκλιμάκωση. www.ertnews.gr

Ο Δήμος Πολυγύρου θα φιλοξενήσει την Παρασκευή 15 Μαΐου 2026 και ώρα 18:30, στο Δημαρχείο Πολυγύρου, την ανοιχτή συνεδρίαση του Διοικητικού Συμβουλίου του Ελληνικού Δικτύου Ανθεκτικών Πόλεων (Ελ.Δ.Α.Π.). Κατά τη διάρκεια της συνεδρίασης θα παρουσιαστούν το έργο και οι πρωτοβουλίες του Δικτύου στον τομέα της Πολιτικής Προστασίας, με ιδιαίτερη αναφορά στη συμβολή του στη διαμόρφωση του νέου θεσμικού πλαισίου (ν. 5281/2026 «Ενεργή Μάχη») και στο Μνημόνιο Συνεργασίας που υπεγράφη με το Υπουργείο Κλιματικής Κρίσης και Πολιτικής Προστασίας. Ιδιαίτερη έμφαση θα δοθεί σε δράσεις που αφορούν την ανάπτυξη Τοπικών Κέντρων Διαχείρισης Κινδύνων, την εκπαίδευση στελεχών και εθελοντών, την ενίσχυση της ψηφιακής διαχείρισης κρίσεων και τη δημιουργία Παρατηρητηρίου Πολιτικής Προστασίας για τους Ο.Τ.Α. α’ βαθμού. Στο πλαίσιο της εκδήλωσης, η Δρ. Δάφνη Παρλιάρη, Μεταδιδακτορική Ερευνήτρια του Α.Π.Θ., θα πραγματοποιήσει ομιλία με θέμα: «Από την έρευνα του διαστήματος στην επιχειρησιακή ετοιμότητα: Ο Χολομώντας ως πρότυπο ανθεκτικότητας». Παράλληλα, τα μέλη του Ελ.Δ.Α.Π. θα παρακολουθήσουν επίδειξη δράσεων της Πολιτικής Προστασίας και της Λέσχης Εφέδρων Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων, θα επισκεφθούν το Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Πολυγύρου και τη βάση drone στον Βάβδο. Πρόγραμμα Παρασκευή 15/5/2026 11:00 Άφιξη 11:30 Επίδειξη Πολιτικής Προστασίας- ΛΕΦΕΔ 13:30 Επίσκεψη στο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο 18:30 Ανοιχτή συνεδρίαση Διοικητικού Συμβουλίου Σάββατο 16/5/2026 10:45 Βάβδος- Βάση Drone www.ertnews.gr

Horrible accident in reality show Survivor Greece: A contestant had part of his leg ambulated after he got seriously injured when a touristic boat hit him during spearfishing in the Dominican Republic. 22-year-old Stavros Floros is reportedly in serious condition. He cannot be transferred to Greece immediately, health minister Adonis Georgiadis announced. Skai TV has […] The post Survivor Greece: Horrible accident for contestant; broadcasting suspended appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

Over 80,000 thrilled Greeks, fans of heavy metal group Metallica, caused several minor earthquakes in OAKA stadium in Athens on Saturday night. This phenomenon, known as “concert quakes”, was recorded and confirmed by the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, media reported. The micro-seismic vibrations, fanquakes or concert quakes were caused from the […] The post Thousands of Metallica fans cause seismic vibrations in Athens appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

Greece is considering a diplomatic protest to Ukraine after an explosive naval drone was found off Lefkada. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Chabe 01 / CC BY SA 4.0 Greece is expected to issue a formal diplomatic protest to Ukraine if authorities confirm that a Ukrainian-built unmanned naval drone carrying dozens of pounds of explosives belongs to Ukrainian forces. The drone was found off the coast of Lefkada, raising serious concern in Athens over maritime security and the safety of Greek waters. Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis formally briefed the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on the incident and said Greece would take initiatives to prevent the Mediterranean from becoming “a theater of military operations.” Greek Foreign Ministry officials are currently working to determine the drone’s origin. “There will be a government response through the necessary démarches,” Gerapetritis said in Brussels, adopting an unusually firm tone. Ukraine-built drone enters water of Greece’s Lefkada undetected The incident has alarmed Athens because the explosive-laden drone moved undetected and uncontrolled within Greek territorial waters. Defense experts, however, note that this type of unmanned naval craft is extremely difficult to spot. According to their assessment, such vessels can remain almost invisible to conventional naval radar systems. Still, the presence of an explosive device in Greek waters has strengthened Athens’ view that diplomatic action is necessary to reduce the recurrence of similar incidents in the future. Greek authorities examine drone’s route Greek authorities are currently examining the drone’s onboard systems in cooperation with satellite system management companies. They aim to reconstruct the vessel’s route and determine its point of origin. Officials are said to be considering two plausible scenarios, the first of which posits that a commercial ship may have dropped the drone in the area. The second scenario suggests the vessel set out from a base reportedly used by Ukrainians in Misrata in western Libya. In both cases, the craft appears to have lost remote control. This may explain why it went off course, eventually making its way to the coast of the island of Lefkada in Greece. Concern grows over Greek merchant shipping The incident has also revived concern in Athens over the safety of the Greek merchant fleet. This is not the first time Greece has felt the impact of Ukraine’s wartime operations. In mid-March, a Ukrainian drone hit a vessel belonging to a Greek company while it was off Novorossiysk and preparing to load Russian oil. That attack prompted strong reactions from Shipping Minister Vasilis Kikilias and later from Gerapetritis. The Greek Foreign Minister also raised the matter with his counterparts at the EU Foreign Affairs Council, while Athens reportedly expressed strong displeasure to Kyiv. As in the latest case, European partners showed understanding and support for Greece’s concerns, although they have not issued an official reaction thus far. It remains unclear whether Athens will also raise the Lefkada incident at the Council of Defense Ministers in Brussels, where Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias is participating. Greece says support for Ukraine continues despite Lefkada drone incident Diplomatic sources in Athens emphasized that Greece has supported Ukraine in multiple ways over the past five years, including financially, diplomatically, and militarily. It was also underlined that Greece will continue to support Ukraine. At the same time, Athens is making clear that incidents involving explosive-laden drones in Greek waters cannot go unanswered.

Odysseus slays the suitors in his palace with his son Telemachus and returns to his beloved wife Penelope, who had waited for him for twenty years. Credit: Painting by Jean Alaux (1812) Public Domain In Greek legend, the famous hero Odysseus is said to have had a son named Latinus. According to Hesiod’s Theogony, Odysseus’ son, Latinus, ruled as king over the Etruscans along with two of his brothers. However, does this mean that he was the king of ancient Italy? And can he be identified as the Latinus from Virgil’s Aeneid? Odysseus’ son, Latinus, king of the Etruscans in Hesiod’s Theogony The earliest mention of Odysseus having a son named Latinus who ruled as king over the Etruscans appears in Theogony. The author of this ancient work was Hesiod, a famous Greek poet of the seventh century BCE. According to Hesiod: “Circe the daughter of Helius, Hyperion’s son, loved steadfast Odysseus and bare Agrius and Latinus who was faultless and strong: also she brought forth Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite. And they ruled over the famous Tyrrhenians, very far off in a recess of the holy islands.” This passage reveals several important details about Latinus. Firstly, it reveals that he was the son of Odysseus by Circe. She was an enchantress or nymph who lived on an island near the entrance to the Underworld. Evidence suggests that the island in question was Paxos, near the oracle of the dead by the Acheron River in Epirus. Secondly, this shows that Latinus had two full brothers, Agrius and Telegonus. Finally, Latinus, son of Odysseus, supposedly ruled, along with his two brothers, over the Tyrrhenians, or Etruscans. The identification of Odysseus’ son with the Latinus of Virgil’s Aeneid One big mystery surrounding Odysseus’ son Latinus is whether he was identical to the Latinus who appears in Virgil’s Aeneid. Virgil, a Roman writer, wrote this narrative in the first century BCE. It tells the story of Aeneas’ travels after the Trojan War. According to Virgil, Aeneas met a king of the Latins in Italy, fittingly named Latinus. He was the eponymous king of the tribes over whom he ruled. His daughter, Lavinia, eventually married Aeneas, and the Trojan companions of Aeneas became united with the native Latins of Italy. Was Latinus, son of Odysseus, identical to Latinus, king of the Latins in Virgil’s Aeneid? Many modern sources, although not all, take this stance. This seems obvious because Hesiod presents Odysseus’ son Latinus as the king of the Etruscans, who lived just next to the Latins in Italy. Differences between the two kings As many modern scholars acknowledge, there are serious problems with equating these two kings, called Latinus. Certainly, if they were meant to be identical, the two accounts about them are completely inconsistent with each other. The most obvious difference is that Virgil presents King Latinus of the Latins as being the son of Faunus, a Roman god. He does not present Latinus as being Odysseus’ son, nor does he mention him ruling over the Etruscans. There is also a serious chronological issue. As we saw, Odysseus’ son Latinus was born to him by Circe. According to Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus sojourned on Circe’s island near the beginning of his 10-year journey home from Troy. Therefore, his son Latinus must have been born only a few years after the Trojan War. However, this is about the same time as when Aeneas is supposed to have arrived in Italy. Yet, by that point, King Latinus of the Latins was already a fairly aged king with an adult daughter. According to chronology, ancestry, and associated nations, Virgil’s Latinus and Hesiod’s Latinus seem to be entirely distinct entities. Was Odysseus’ son Latinus really king over the Etruscans in Italy? Does this mean that in Italy, in the decades following the Trojan War, there were two separate kings named Latinus ruling almost in the same place and almost at the same time? In reality, there is a good case to be made that Hesiod was not presenting Odysseus’ son, Latinus, as a king in Italy. As we saw in the quotation from Theogony, Latinus and his brothers supposedly ruled over the Etruscans “very far off in a recess of the holy islands.” This description does not match Italy. This indicates that the Etruscans whom Latinus ruled over were not the ones who lived in Italy. Ancient Greek sources present the Etruscans as being present in several different parts of the Mediterranean, which is consistent with this conclusion. Where did Latinus’ Etruscans really live? Recall that Circe appears to have lived on the island of Paxos, just off the coast of Epirus, western Greece. Was there a location near that island that was said to have been inhabited by the Etruscans? As it happens, there are several ancient sources which refer to that exact region of Epirus, near the Acheron River, as being inhabited by the Pelasgians. We have seen this in sources such as Herodotus, Strabo, and even as early as Homer in his Odyssey. Strabo, for instance, mentions: “And many have called also the tribes of Epirus ‘Pelasgian’, because in their opinion the Pelasgi extended their rule even as far as that.” The significance of this is that ancient sources frequently use the term ‘Pelasgian’ as a synonym for ‘Tyrrhenian’—that is, the Etruscans. It did not always mean this, of course. Sometimes, it referred to the pre-Greek inhabitants of Greece. Often, it is impossible to know which meaning is intended in any given passage. Hesiod’s mention of Odysseus’ son, Latinus, governing the Tyrrhenians or Etruscans, may well connect with historical allusions to the Pelasgians in Epirus. This region was adjacent to the island associated with Latinus’s mythological mother, Circe. Furthermore, Hesiod’s use of the wording “far off in a recess of the holy islands” is reminiscent of Homer’s description of Dodona in Epirus as being “far off” or “distant” in the Iliad, Book 16. On these bases, this was likely the true territory of Hesiod’s Latinus. In other words, Latinus, son of Odysseus, king of the Etruscans, was probably supposed to have ruled in Epirus.

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