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My Greek Drama · Life, Love, and One Woman's Olympic Effort to Bring Glory to Her Country by Angelopoulos, Gianna is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Standing alone in the VIP box of the Olympic Games in 2004, Gianna Angelopoulos began to dance. The world had doubted Greece’s ability to successfully stage this global event. She danced to celebrate the efforts of all Greeks—and her own—to host a phenomenally successful games, an effort that showed the world a new Greece, a Greece worthy of its illustrious heritage.Little did she know that a few years later her country would abandon the lessons of the Olympics and become embroiled in a political and economic crisis that would devastate Greece, and threaten the economic security of Europe.In *My Greek Drama*, Gianna Angelopoulos—known in her home country simply as “Gianna”—has written a memoir that is as much about Greece’s journey as her own.From her childhood in Crete, to law school in Thessaloniki, to Athens, where she overcame male-dominated legal and political cultures to help redefine public service in Greece, Gianna worked her way into becoming one of the most respected women in Greek public life.Balancing motherhood, business, and a place in the upper echelons of world society, Gianna never lost her passion for public service and brought the 2004 Olympic Games back from th
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- Author
- Angelopoulos, Gianna
- Publisher
- Greenleaf Book Group Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781608325818
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sports, Anthropology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.33 / 5 (120 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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