Adonis Georgiades

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Adonis Georgiades
Adonis Georgiades

Born
Occupation	Historian
Religion	Greek Orthodox

Adonis Georgiades (Greek: Άδωνις Γεωργιάδης) is a Greek politician (unelected), historian,^{[citation needed]} and spokesman for the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) political party. He received his university degree in 1992 from the Department of History and Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens.^[1] Georgiades' ancestry is from Lefkada, Macedonia, Pontus, and Smyrna.^[2]

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 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, written in the polytonic system, the return in of which he advocates, which covers issues of national and historical interest. An organization under the same name of Elliniki Agogi organizes lessons of the Ancient Greek language.

Georgiades' speaking style is characterized by frequent use of the more formal katharevousa as well as a loud voice, which often make him appear to be shouting; he has said that he has a naturally loud voice since childhood.^{[citation needed]}

Georgiades often expresses his admiration for Ancient Greece, as well as the Byzantine Empire, and he believes in the existence of a historical continuity of the Greek nation from ancient times until today. As a result he sometimes clashes with other admirers of antiquity who denounce the Byzantine Empire for its Christian character. He 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.^[3]

Georgiades has been frequently condemned to be far-right and fascist by left-wing politicians and journalists, although he denies such characterizations and has stated that he believes in direct democracy. In turn he 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.

One of the bookstores of Ekdoseis Georgiadi, in the Exarcheia district of Athens, has been targeted and burnt several 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.^[4]^[5]