Growing Up the Greek Way in the Big Apple
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We must let Kosta think this was his idea. All right, I know. That he came up with it.
Growing Up the Greek Way in the Big Apple
Ma, he's gonna figure it out. Okay, I know what to do you. You don't know what to do. You talk, talk, talk, all the time! Do you want my help? Yes, I want your help! Tell me what to say. But don't tell me what to say. Ian, if you're gonna be in this family, I get you some earplugs because the Portokalos women, if they're not nagging someone Ah, you're in so much trouble when I tell my sister!
I'm not leaving you! Don't you want me to do something with my life?
The Impious Sister
Get married, make babies! You don't want to know. Oh I don't know. If I had survived an old lady ass-kicking I would want to brag about it. What are you saying? Are you saying Toula will get involved with drugs? But somebody will say to her: She is not stupid! I know she's smart. So what for she needs more school?
She's smart enough for a girl.
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You think you're smarter than me, huh? It's lucky for me I have you to tie my shoes! Ian, are you hungry? Uh no, I already ate. Okay, I make you something. You're starting to look That Greeks should educate non Greeks about being Greek and every ailment from psoriasis to poison ivy can be cured with Windex. Hey Ian, we're gonna kill ya! When I was growing up, I knew I was different. The other girls were blonde and delicate, and I was a swarthy six-year-old with sideburns.
Give me a word, any word, and I show you that the root of that word is Greek.
I mean, it looks a little flat there. Give me a word, any word, and I show you that the root of that word is Greek. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. However, Theseus was not fooled. Hey, what is that thing?
I'm a snow beast! My parents' names are Rodney and Harriet. We didn't notice, so maybe they won't.
I gave you life so that you could live it. I know this great place Uh, that place, Dancing Zorba's My family kinda owns that place. Look, I was going through a phase. I was Frump Girl. I don't remember Frump Girl, but I remember you. Why do you love me? Because I came alive when I met you.
Growing Up the Greek Way in the Big Apple [Mike Pappas] on bahana-line.com * FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. When you grow up Greek, you grow up. When you grow up Greek, you grow up differently—especially in the culturally rich city of New York. Mike Pappas was born just after the start of World War II to.
Nice Greek girls who don't find a husband, work in the family restaurant. So here I am, day after day, year after year, thirty and way past my expiration date. Where are you going? I'm taking a pottery class. The Greeks invented pottery. Nikki, how come you no come to curler my hairs this morning? I had to drop Dimos at work. And now, I gotta go open the travel agency, because, you know, some jag-off and his big-ass girlfriend are too busy.
Tell her I open up the dry cleaners every day, and I think it's about time she did something for a change. Do you know who's at the dry cleaner this morning? My husband is at the dry cleaner! Dec 10, Susan rated it it was ok Shelves: Mike Pappas reflects on his boyhood and young manhood as the child of Greek immigrants growing up in working-class Manhattan, back when rents were cheap enough for a family like his. His mother was the chief influence on his life, especially after his father died young, but he was active in the Greek Orthodox church and youth groups.
Readers who were also born during World War II may find it stirs some memories. Will rated it it was amazing Jan 25, Michael Pappas rated it it was amazing Sep 23, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Books by Mike Pappas. Trivia About Growing Up the Gr No trivia or quizzes yet. Theseus followed Daedalus' instructions given to Ariadne; go forwards, always down and never left or right. Theseus came to the heart of the Labyrinth and also upon the sleeping Minotaur. The beast awoke and a tremendous fight then occurred. Theseus overpowered the Minotaur with his strength and stabbed the beast in the throat with his sword according to one scholium on Pindar's Fifth Nemean Ode, Theseus strangled it.
After decapitating the beast, Theseus used the string to escape the Labyrinth and managed to escape with all of the young Athenians and Ariadne as well as her younger sister Phaedra.
Then he and the rest of the crew fell asleep on the beach of the island of Naxos, where they stopped on their way back, looking for water. Athena woke Theseus and told him to leave early that morning and to leave Ariadne there for Dionysus, for Naxos was his island. Stricken with distress, Theseus forgot to put up the white sails instead of the black ones, so his father, the king, believing he was dead, committed suicide, throwing himself off a cliff of Sounio and into the sea, thus causing this body of water to be named Aegean Sea. Dionysus later saw Ariadne crying out for Theseus and took pity on her and married her.
According to Plutarch 's Life of Theseus , the ship Theseus used on his return from Crete to Athens was kept in the Athenian harbour as a memorial for several centuries. The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus , [13] for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place The ship had to be maintained in a seaworthy state, for, in return for Theseus's successful mission, the Athenians had pledged to honour Apollo every year henceforth.
Thus, the Athenians sent a religious mission to the island of Delos one of Apollo's most sacred sanctuaries on the Athenian state galley — the ship itself — to pay their fealty to the god. To preserve the purity of the occasion, no executions were permitted between the time when the religious ceremony began to when the ship returned from Delos, which took several weeks.
To preserve the ship, any wood that wore out or rotted was replaced; it was, thus, unclear to philosophers how much of the original ship actually remained, giving rise to the philosophical question whether it should be considered "the same" ship or not. Such philosophical questions about the nature of identity are sometimes referred to as the Ship of Theseus Paradox.
Regardless of these issues, Athenians preserved the ship. Their belief was that Theseus had been an actual, historic figure and the ship gave them a tangible connection to their divine providence. Theseus's best friend was Pirithous , prince of the Lapiths.
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Pirithous had heard stories of Theseus's courage and strength in battle but wanted proof so he rustled Theseus's herd of cattle and drove it from Marathon and Theseus set out in pursuit. Pirithous took up his arms and the pair met to do battle but were so impressed with each other they took an oath of friendship and joined the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. In Iliad I, Nestor numbers Pirithous and Theseus "of heroic fame" among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, "the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe whom they utterly destroyed.
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Later, Pirithous was preparing to marry Hippodamia. The centaurs were guests at the wedding feast, but got drunk and tried to abduct the women, including Hippodamia. The Lapiths won the ensuing battle. In Ovid 's Metamorphoses Theseus fights against and kills Eurytus , the "fiercest of all the fierce centaurs" [16] at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia. Theseus, a great abductor of women, and his bosom companion, Pirithous, since they were sons of Zeus and Poseidon, pledged themselves to marry daughters of Zeus.
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On Pirithous' behalf they travelled to the underworld, domain of Persephone and her husband Hades. As they wandered through the outskirts of Tartarus , Theseus sat down to rest on a rock. As he did so he felt his limbs change and grow stiff. He tried to rise but could not. He was fixed to the rock.
As he turned to cry out to his friend, he saw that Pirithous too was crying out. Around him gathered the terrible band of Furies with snakes in their hair, torches and long whips in their hands. Before these monsters the hero's courage failed and he was led away to eternal punishment. For many months in half darkness, Theseus sat immovably fixed to the rock, mourning for both his friend and for himself.
In the end he was rescued by Heracles who had come to the underworld for his 12th task. There he persuaded Persephone to forgive him for the part he had taken in the rash venture of Pirithous. So Theseus was restored to the upper air but Pirithous never left the kingdom of the dead, for when he tried to free Pirithous, the underworld shook. While these two were still in their infancy, Phaedra fell in love with Hippolytus , Theseus's son by the Amazon queen Hippolyta.
According to some versions of the story, Hippolytus had scorned Aphrodite to become a follower of Artemis , so Aphrodite made Phaedra fall in love with him as punishment. He rejected her out of chastity. Alternatively, in Euripides' version, Hippolytus , Phaedra's nurse told Hippolytus of her mistress's love and he swore he would not reveal the nurse as his source of information. To ensure that she would die with dignity, Phaedra wrote to Theseus on a tablet claiming that Hippolytus had raped her before hanging herself.
Theseus believed her and used one of the three wishes he had received from Poseidon against his son. The curse caused Hippolytus' horses to be frightened by a sea monster, usually a bull, and drag their rider to his death. Artemis would later tell Theseus the truth, promising to avenge her loyal follower on another follower of Aphrodite.
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