Athens Confidential
The city that endures
Athens. Home of the Acropolis and the Parthenon. Well spring of democracy and philosophy. More recently famed for its graffiti, riots and the longest recession in modern history. But in this episode of The Weekend Intelligence, Fani Papageorgiou argues that her home city is much more than the sum of these parts. What defines Athens for those who love it, like Fani, is something even more uniquely Greek.
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