Adonis Georgiades

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Adonis Georgiades MP
Adonis Georgiades

Political party	Popular Orthodox Rally
Spouse	Eugenia Manolides
Occupation	Publisher, Historian, Member of Parliament
Religion	Greek Orthodox

Adonis Georgiades or Adonis Georgiadis (Greek: Άδωνις Γεωργιάδης) is a Greek politician, publisher, and author. His full name is Spyridon-Adonis Georgiadis.^[1] He served as the spokesman for the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) political party until August 2007 ^[2]. Georgiades ran for the office of the Prefect of Athens in the 2006 elections,^[3] and was elected into the Greek parliament in the September 16, 2007 national elections,^[4] having run in the 2nd district of Athens. He received his university degree in 1992 from the Department of History and Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens.^[5] Georgiades' ancestry is from Lefkada, Macedonia, Pontus, and Smyrna.^[6] He is married to classical composer Eugenia Manolides raising a son and a daughter from her previous marriage,^[7] as well as a young son named Athanassios-Perseas.^{[citation needed]}

Georgiades often appears on TeleAsty news programs, which is run by LAOS founder Georgios Karatzaferis, expressing the opinions of his party. On his daily programme Ellinon Egersis (Greek Uprising; Greek: Ελλήνων Έγερσις) on TeleAsty, along with his brother Leonidas he comments on current affairs, and presents books of mainly historical and philological interest, both from his family publishing house Ekdoseis Georgiadi and other Greek publishers. He also publishes the magazine Elliniki Agogi (Greek Upbringing; Greek: Ελληνική Αγωγή), which covers issues of national and historical interest. An organization under the same name of Elliniki Agogi organizes lessons of the Ancient Greek language.

1 Linguistic Views
2 Work as an Author
3 Controversy
4 Criticism of Opponents
5 Attacks against Georgiades' bookstore
6 See also
- 6.1 Related Pages
- 6.2 References

[edit] Linguistic Views

Georgiades' speaking style is characterized by frequent use of the more formal katharevousa. Georgiades also advocates the use of the traditional polytonic system for writing the Greek language; Elliniki Agogi is written in this system, a fairly uncommon practice nowadays in Greek publishing. Georgiades has called for more research to investigate whether the introduction of the monotonic system was beneficial or not.^[8]

[edit] Work as an Author

As an author, Georgiades has written a historical book titled Homosexuality in Ancient Greece: the Myth Collapses in which he argues that whereas homosexuality was present in Ancient Greece as in other countries, its extent and social acceptance have been inflated.^[9] He had also previously written a Guide to Ancient Greek Coins.

[edit] Controversy

Georgiades has frequently been condemned as being, at the least, sympathetic to extreme-right views by left-wing politicians and journalists, although he denies such characterizations and has stated that he believes in direct democracy. Georgiades has also been accused of selling through Ellinon Egersis books by controversial Greek author Konstantinos Plevris;^[10] Georgiades has countered that he sells these books like other Greek bookstores, saying that he disagrees with their content, and that he has not mentioned their title or controversial content in his show.^[11]

More recently, Georgiades responded to an interview of former Minister Stelios Papathemelis, in which the latter suggested he was a satanist by filing a suit against Mr. Papathemelis, vowing to donate any compensation awarded to him by the court in favor of the Church of Greece and the Ecumenical Patriarchate.^[12]

[edit] Criticism of Opponents

Georgiades often condemns the opinions expressed in left-wing publications such as Eleftherotypia or by left-wing politicians such as those of Synaspismos. He also routinely condemns the policies of the two leading Greek parties, New Democracy and the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, which he views as two sides of the same coin.^{[citation needed]} He has often used the term tholokoultoura (Greek: θολοκουλτούρα; hazy-culture) to group his ideological opponents:

The hazy-culture is a very specific thing: it is a group of people who believe that to remember our national ancestry is a factor of conservatism. They are today the best allies of globalization. What is the goal of globalization? It wants to destroy every notion of a national tradition and a national memory so as to transform the totality of the population of our planet into simple customers of multi-national corporations and into complacent subjects of the world-ruling Superpower.

—Adonis Georgiades in Greek TV show Erevna hosted by Pavlos Tsimas, March 13, 2007

[edit] Attacks against Georgiades' bookstore

One of the bookstores of Ekdoseis Georgiadi, in the Exarcheia district of Athens, has been targeted and burnt several times by unidentified opponents. Georgiades has since moved this bookstore, stating that he did so to protect the anti-riot police that was tasked to protect his business. Nonetheless, a different bookstore of the same publisher was targeted on 15 February 2007, the eighth attack against bookstores of Ekdoseis Georgiadi.^[13]^[14] Subsequently, unidentified persons also attacked and injured riot police that were assigned to protect Georgiades' bookstore.^[15]