Marianna Koromila

Marianna Koromila was born in Athens in 1949 and began her professional career in 1966 with youth programs on state radio. Later, she worked as a tour guide while completing her studies in Paris (history, philosophy) and began exploring the lived Greek space beyond borders. She returned to radio in 1975. She has produced over two thousand broadcasts of historical interest, undertaken dozens of trips to the Middle East, Turkey, the Black Sea, and the Balkans, collaborated with Greek and international publications (books, magazines, newspapers), and television productions. She received an award from the Academy of Athens for her book "The Greeks in the Black Sea" (1991, revised edition 2001), and participated in the creation and development of the Cultural Society "PANORAMA." Since 1985, she has channeled her activities there, organizing hundreds of educational seminars, lecture series, trips, exhibitions, children's programs, and other events on topics of history, culture, and the environment. She has published the books: "Athenian Adventure," Athens, 1980, "Pontus-Anatolia," Lucy Bratsioti Editions, 1989, English edition 1990, "Four Stories for a Lost Full Moon," Cultural Society "Panorama," 1989, "1453, The Final Agony of the Byzantine Capital," Cultural Society "Panorama," 1992, "Thracian Topography," exhibition catalog, Cultural Society "Panorama," 1994, (with Thodoris Kontaras:) "Erythraea, a Blessed Microcosm in the Heart of Ionia," Cultural Society "Panorama," 1997, "The Greeks in the Black Sea: from the Bronze Age to the Early 20th Century," Cultural Society "Panorama," 1991, expanded edition, 2001, "The Greeks and the Black Sea: from the Bronze Age to the Early 20th Century," Cultural Society "Panorama," 1991, expanded edition, 2002, "In the Stadium," Agra Editions, 2004, "Happy to Have Made Odysseus' Journey," Cultural Society "Panorama," 1988, expanded edition, "Agra," 2005.