Was Columbus Greek?

greecetravel.com ^ | 2003 | Matt Barrett

[homeschool mama]

**If you listen to the father in the film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," he would give you reasons for believing that Columbus was Greek. **

Then he'd spray you with Windex. :o)

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

HAHAHAHA! My vote for favorite movie of 2002!!!

[arm958]

Oh, come on. Greeks are some of the the most egotistical and xenophobic people in Europe (I lived there for over a year). If Colombus was a Greek, then he and his family were in Greece as occupiers and enlighteners, since Greece had long since sunk into decline. Most modern Greek culture comes from the Turks. I've got my flame suit on, so you Greek-Americans can fire away.

[homeschool mama]

I laughed so hard during the movie I needed my inhaler! :o) When this movie comes out on video, I'M BUYING IT!!!

[rightisright]

My parents are from Chios, and I have heard the stories of Colombus being Chian while growing up. It's an interesting theory, and I think that it is a historical fact that some of the sailors on his first voyage were recruited from Chios.

Of course Chios also makes claims that Homer was a native of the Island, and I have visited the Daskalopetra (Teaching Rock) where Homer taught his poems to his students.

[Savage Beast]

Say, that's not a bad idea, Tony. The Turks blew up the Parthenon once. Maybe we should bring it over here for safe keeping. (With a little ingenuity, we could swap it for the one in Nashville without the Greeks' realizing it.)

[Destro]

Nice use of Greek words in a sentence. Your not worth any flame.

[BlueLancer]

Doesn't look Greek to me.

[dighton]

columbus was greek, everyone knows this! forget textbooks, false turkish propaganda!

ulysses sailed the ocean blue! mussolini is still with mother at home, not yet out of diapers! pull your head from the sand!

gyroscope comes from gyros, you cannot navigate with meatballs! return parthenon marbles, stop changing subject, show some respect!

-- the ghost of oxi-nato.

[Destro]

Actually he looks very Greek to me.

[a_Turk]

Should we ask the Chinese about his ancestry?

BTW, Colombo's picture really made me LMAO :^D

[Restorer]

Do you suppose Columbus had any Egyptian blood?

Try the book Black Spark, White Fire

by Richard Poe for possible evidence that Egyptians were heavily infulential in early Greece.

[anka]

lousy chioti! ;)
we karpathians have the best kept secret in the aegean...

oh, sh*t!...

[Savage Beast]

I knew it. It's just a matter of time before the Sphinx comes to the Arizona desert and we set up the real pyramid in Memphis (I mean Memphis, Tennessee).

[rightisright]

we karpathians have the best kept secret in the aegean...

Yes but we have Homer, Columbus and Mastica :-)

Kala Hristougenia kai Kali Protohronia!

[SunkenCiv]

I brought up the same point, but in a recent thread:

Christophoros Columbus: A Byzantine Prince from Chios, Greece
Posted on 08/05/2004 5:48:37 PM PDT by Destro

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