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Hellenic Society of Maine

The Hellenic Society of Maine (HSoM) was established for the purpose of preserving and promoting the Greek heritage and culture.

The Hellenic Society of Maine provides a variety of cultural activities and learning opportunities for Greeks and Philhellenes and others interested in Hellenic culture. Based in the Portland, Maine area, we provide in-person and Zoom-based activities for our members who reside in a variety of locations around Maine, in other states and abroad.

09/04/2025

Join us at the concert!

06/11/2024

20th anniversary celebration of Portland-Mytilene sister cityhood Sponsored by the Hellenic Society of Maine. HSoM President Mary Snell presents gift from Portland Nayor Mark Dion to Mytilene Mayor Panagiotis Christofas May 29, 2024.

06/09/2024

Hellenic Society of Maine delegation greeted by local authorities and past supporters at the 20th anniversary celebration of the sister city relationship between Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece and Portland, Maine.
HSoM president, Mary Snell presents gift from Portland Mayor Mark Dion to Mytilene Mayor Panagiotis Christofas on May 29,2024.

09/23/2023

The Hellenic Society of Maine celebrated the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Sister City relationship between Portland Maine and Mytilene Lesvos Greece.

03/21/2023

Greek Mythology in the Night Sky
Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 1 p.m.
First presented in 2008 at the University of Southern Maine
Southworth Planetarium, this extremely popular program will
once again be presented in the Planetarium in the USM Science
Building, Falmouth Street, on the
USM Portland Campus.
Explore the rich realm of night sky mythology
under the stars with Edward Herrick
-Gleason, Director of the USM Southworth
Planetarium. Within one hour you will discover
the stories, legends and lore of the
stars and planets. Perseus slays the Gorgon
Medusa. Pegasus arises from her blood. Bellopheron tames
Pegasus and slays the Chimera. Cassiopeia's brag becomes
Andromeda's despair. Hera's wrath becomes Hercules' labors.
Gods and monsters; forlorn lovers and ancient warriors: see
them all amongst the stars.
For Reservations call the Planetarium at: 780-4249
Leave your name & phone, Number of seats requested
Admission: Adults $6.50; Children under 12: $5.
Limited Seating (62 Seats). Free parking in the garage.

03/17/2023

"The Greeks of Ukraine:
From Antiquity to the Present"
March 30 at 7 p.m. via ZOOM
Dr. Alexandros Kyrou is Professor of History and Director
of the Program in East European and Russian Studies at Salem
(MA) State University where he teaches on the Balkans, Byzantium,
and the Ottoman Empire. He will give a lecture, “The
Greeks of Ukraine: from Antiquity to the Present,” via Zoom
on Thursday, March 30.

11/03/2022

"The Terror and Rescue at Smyrna, September 1922”
by Lou Ureneck
November 18, 2022 at 7 p.m. — in person
133 Wishcamper Hall, Univ. of Southern Maine, Portland

Lou Ureneck is the author of Smyrna: September 1922, the most complete account in any language of the destruction of the city of Smyrna and the American rescue of tens of thousands of Greek and Armenian refugees. The book is based on five years of research in five countries in-cluding extensive visits to Greece and Turkey.
Ureneck is the author of two other books, one of which won the National Outdoor Book Award for literary merit. He is a former professor and chair of the Department of Journalism at Boston University, the former editor of the Port-land Press Herald and a former senior editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Nieman Reports, Field & Stream and other publications. He was a regular blogger for the New York Times and a visiting columnist for the Boston Globe.
In addition, Ureneck was a Nieman Fellow and editor in residence at Harvard University; a Fulbright Senior Specialist, teaching at the National University in Kiev; and the Eleftherios Venizelos Chair in Modern Greek Studies at the American College of Greece in Athens.
He has been inducted into the Maine Journalism Hall of Fame and received the Hellenic Heritage Award. The New England Academy of Journalists named Ureneck a recipient of the Yankee Quill Award, New England's highest individual award for Journalism.
A book sale and signing will follow.

02/19/2022

“How the Greeks Learned to Write -Twice!”
by Cynthia Shelmerdine

To join in contact: [email protected]

When did the ancient Greeks learn to write, and what purposes did this new skill serve? This and other questions will be answered when Prof. Cynthia Shelmerdine gives her talk on this interesting topic at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 31 via Zoom.
The earliest known texts in the Greek alphabet date to the 8th century BC. We’ll look at what kinds of texts these are, and how the uses of writing expanded over the next couple of centuries. But there is another story here as well. As we will see, the Greeks also learned to write several hundred years earlier, in a different script and for very different purposes.
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine is the Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor of Classics, emerita at the University of Texas at Austin, and Research Associate in Classics at Bowdoin College. She has published extensively on the Aegean Bronze Age, particularly the archaeology, history and culture of Mycenaean Greece.
She has worked in the field as a ceramic expert with the University of Minnesota Messenia Expedition (1970s), the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (1990s), and currently the Iklaina Archaeological Project (from 1999).
She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, Cambridge University and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1977). Among her many publications, she edited the Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (2008), and and collaborated with her sister, Susan C. Shelmerdine, on the third edition of her ancient Greek textbook, Introduction to Greek (2020).

Address

P. O. Box 8007
Portland, ME
04104

Website

http://www.HellenicSocietyofMaine.org/

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