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HALL OF THE TROPHIES
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Greek Salpinx (Trumpet)
Sheet 1, 1st August 1821
Publisher-author: Theoklitos Farmakides, printer: Konstantinos Tombras Library of the Hellenic Parliament
IN THE FIRST ISSUE of the Σάλπιγξ Ελληνική/Greek Trumpet (1st August 1821) the rev- olutionary proclamation of Alexandros Ypsilantis is published «Fight for faith and country» (Jassy, 24 Feb- ruary 1821), which is continued at the beginning of the 2nd issue (5 August 1821). «The time has come, oh! Hellenes! [...] To arms, then, friends, the Mother- land calls us!!», Ypsilantis exclaims to the enslaved Greeks.
The Σάλπιγξ Ελληνική/Greek Trumpet, the first printed newspaper in free Greece, was published in Kalama- ta, in August 1821, by Theoklitos Farmakides, who had experience already as editor of Λόγιος Ερμής/Lo-
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French studio
A Greek defends himself holding the banner with the cross
gios Hermes in Vienna. The printing equipment was possibly bought in Venice and brought to Greece by Dimitrios Ypsilantis in his luggage from Trieste, when he came to Hydra in June 1821 as plenipoten- tiary of the General Commissioner of the Authority. The newspaper did not run for long. It closed after publishing just three issues, because of the disputes between Farmakides and Dimitrios Ypsilantis, who wanted to impose preventive censorship on the Press.
The three issues (1st, 5th and 20th August) are kept in the Special Collections of the Library of the Hellenic Parliament.
table clock of gilded bronze, 36 × 25 × 7 cm Michael and Demetra Varkarakis Collection
THIS TABLE CLOCK, on a fine base deco- rated with anthemia, shows the figure of a Greek fighter in combat, shooting with his right hand and holding the revolutionary banner with a cross in
his left. The fighter’s heroic pose is associated with powerful symbolism, evoking the struggle for “Faith and Homeland”.
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