Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 296 other subscribers-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Wlodzimierz Kuczynski on Vamvakaris: The flood
- opoudjis on Which Indian states are well known in other countries?
- Test Test on Which Indian states are well known in other countries?
- opoudjis on Karamanlis and their food
- Stazybo Horn on Karamanlis and their food
Archives
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- February 2023
- June 2022
- November 2021
- October 2021
- March 2019
- February 2019
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- September 2015
- February 2011
- January 2011
- November 2010
- July 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- July 2008
- June 2008
- November 2006
- October 2006
Categories
Meta
Rallis by the Liston
Wasn’t expecting to find this here. Next to the Liston, not too forward, not too loud, a bust of George Rallis, prime minister in the late 1970s, and local boy (albeit born in Athens). His prime ministership was not that consequential. A few Greeks, I gathered, appreciated having one prime ministerial term without histrionics from the top, wedged as his term was between Constantine Karamanlis and Andreas Papandreou.
I see the bust was stolen in 2019. That is a hazard of any sculpture in our age, even for as John Major-like a figure as George Rallis. One presumes they have the cast handy to make up for it.
He did have the dubious distinction of being Greek nepotism at its most metastasised: son of a PM and grandson of two other PMs: Nick Nicholas’ Answer To: From Venizelos to Papandreou, Mitsotakis and their sons, Karamanlis and now again Mitsotakis, politics in Greece seems a family business. Why?
Also the only PM I’ve ever seen, at a distance in Sitia as a kid. He was so much more human-sized than on TV, I remember.
Then again, Rallis’ legacy was that he was human-sized, unlike the outsized politicians that bookended him…
Leave a Reply