Great Greeks

Great Greeks
Narrated by	Alexis Papachelas
Country of origin	Greece
Original release
Network	Skai TV
Release	January 2009

Great Greeks (Template:Lang-el, Megali Ellines) is a television program, produced and broadcast by the Greek television network Skai TV, based on the BBC's equivalent show 100 Greatest Britons. The show features lists and biographies of influential persons, who came to prominence in their fields throughout the history of Greece, in order to be determined through a voting procedure who is considered the greatest Greek of all time by the audience of Greece.

Format

The whole format of the show is made up of three parts. The first part consisted of a voting procedure, which began on 16 April 2008 and lasted until 7 May 2008, in order to choose the 100 predominant personalities. The second part launched with a couple of two-hour-long episodes, which presented the top 100 and revealed the 10 nominees. A new voting began on 23 February 2009, with the audience assuming to vote for the greatest among the final 10 persons, while a series of ten episodes contains extensive biographies of the 10 nominees.

Each episode features a celebrity supporting a nominee. The third part, the Great Final, took place on 18 May 2009, hosted by Alexis Papahelas. It was a live debate between the ten celebrity supporters of the previous episodes and twenty-five advocates, until the end of the voting and the announcement of the Greatest Greek.

Rank	Great Greeks	Celebrity Supporter
1	Alexander the Great	Yannis Smaragdis
2	Georgios Papanikolaou	Maria Houkli
3	Theodoros Kolokotronis	Sia Kosioni
4	Konstantinos Karamanlis	Stefanos Manos
5	Socrates	Vassilis Karasmanis
6	Aristotle	Gregory Patrikareas
7	Eleftherios Venizelos	Petros Tatsopoulos
8	Ioannis Kapodistrias	Thanos Veremis
9	Plato	Pemy Zouni
10	Pericles	Tasos Telloglou

10 Greatest Greeks

The final ranking of the 10 Greatest Greeks.

The selected 10 Greatest Greeks

• 
  Alexander the Great
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  Theodoros Kolokotronis
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  Konstantinos Karamanlis
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  Socrates
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  Aristotle
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  Eleftherios Venizelos
• 
  Ioannis Kapodistrias
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  Plato
• 
  Pericles

100 Great Greeks

Alphabetical

Aeschylus Alexander the Great Andronikos, Manolis Angelopoulos, Theodoros Archimedes of Syracuse Aristophanes Aristotle Basil II (the Bulgar-Slayer) Beloyiannis, Nikos Bouboulina, Laskarina Callas, Maria Carathéodory, Constantin Castoriadis, Cornelius Cavafy, Constantine P. Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens Cleisthenes Constantine I Constantine XI Palaiologos Cosmas of Aetolia Democritus Diakos, Athanasios Dimas, Pyrros Dragoumis, Ion Elytis, Odysseas Epicurus Euclid Euripides Feraios, Rigas Florakis, Charilaos Galis, Nick Glezos, Manolis Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, Helene Hadjidakis, Manos Heraclitus

Herodotus Hippocrates Homer Horn, Dimitris Justinian I Kapodistrias, Ioannis Karaiskakis, Georgios Karamanlis, Constantine Kazantzakis, Nikos Kazantzidis, Stelios Kolokotronis, Theodoros Korais, Adamantios Koun, Karolos Lambrakis, Gregoris Lazopoulos, Lakis Leonidas I of Sparta Loïzos, Manos Makriyannis, Yannis Margioris, Nikolaos A. Melas, Pavlos Mercouri, Melina Metaxas, Ioannis Mitropoulos, Dimitris Nanopoulos, Dimitri Onassis, Aristotle Otto of Greece Palamas, Kostis Panagoulis, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Alexandros Papadopoulos, Georgios Papandreou, Andreas Papandreou, George (senior)

Papanikolaou, Georgios Paxinou, Katina Pericles Phidias Philip II of Macedon Plastiras, Nikolaos Plato Plethon, Georgius Gemistos Praxiteles Pythagoras Ritsos, Yiannis Seferis, Giorgos Simitis, Costas Socrates Solomos, Dionysios Solon Sophocles Thales of Miletus Themistocles Theodorakis, Mikis Theotokópoulos, Doménicos (El Greco) Thucydides Trikoupis, Charilaos Tsitsanis, Vassilis Unknown Soldier Vamvakaris, Markos Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou) Veggos, Thanasis Velouchiotis, Aris Venizelos, Eleftherios Vougiouklaki, Aliki Xilouris, Nikos Zagorakis, Theodoros

By vote

1. Alexander the Great 2. Papanikolaou, Georgios 3. Kolokotronis, Theodoros 4. Karamanlis, Constantine 5. Socrates 6. Aristotle 7. Venizelos, Eleftherios 8. Kapodistrias, Ioannis 9. Plato 10. Pericles 11. Theodorakis, Mikis 12. Carathéodory, Constantin 13. Mercouri, Melina 14. Papandreou, Andreas 15. Kazantzakis, Nikos 16. Elytis, Odysseas 17. Homer 18. Hadjidakis, Manos 19. Leonidas I of Sparta 20. Hippocrates 21. Pythagoras 22. Cavafy, Constantine P. 23. Callas, Maria 24. Archimedes of Syracuse 25. Onassis, Aristotle 26. Trikoupis, Charilaos 27. Theotokópoulos, Doménicos (El Greco) 28. Constantine XI Palaiologos 29. Seferis, Giorgos 30. Feraios, Rigas 31. Velouchiotis, Aris 32. Metaxas, Ioannis 33. Galis, Nick 34. Karaiskakis, Georgios

35. Democritus 36. Plethon, Georgius Gemistos 37. Solomos, Dionysios 38. Makriyannis, Yannis 39. Korais, Adamantios 40. Ritsos, Yiannis 41. Themistocles 42. Heraclitus 43. Thucydides 44. Euclid 45. Melas, Pavlos 46. Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens 47. Diakos, Athanasios 48. Zagorakis, Theodoros 49. Nanopoulos, Dimitri 50. Unknown Soldier 51. Phidias 52. Aristophanes 53. Palamas, Kostis 54. Cosmas of Aetolia 55. Andronikos, Manolis 56. Sophocles 57. Beloyiannis, Nikos 58. Castoriadis, Cornelius 59. Papandreou, George (senior) 60. Margioris, Nikolaos A. 61. Panagoulis, Alexandros 62. Papadopoulos, Georgios 63. Epicurus 64. Papadiamantis, Alexandros 65. Otto of Greece 66. Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou) 67. Solon

68. Cleisthenes 69. Aeschylus 70. Basil II (the Bulgar-Slayer) 71. Constantine I 72. Dragoumis, Ion 73. Simitis, Costas 74. Plastiras, Nikolaos 75. Mitropoulos, Dimitris 76. Angelopoulos, Theodoros 77. Xilouris, Nikos 78. Kazantzidis, Stelios 79. Florakis, Charilaos 80. Euripides 81. Koun, Karolos 82. Justinian I 83. Lazopoulos, Lakis 84. Herodotus 85. Veggos, Thanasis 86. Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, Helene 87. Paxinou, Katina 88. Vougiouklaki, Aliki 89. Vamvakaris, Markos 90. Lambrakis, Gregoris 91. Tsitsanis, Vassilis 92. Dimas, Pyrros 93. Loïzos, Manos 94. Glezos, Manolis 96. Philip II of Macedon 97. Horn, Dimitris 98. Bouboulina, Laskarina 99.Thales of Miletus 100.Praxiteles

By era

Ancient Greece (27)

Aeschylus Alexander the Great Archimedes of Syracuse Aristophanes Aristotle Cleisthenes of Athens Democritus Epicurus Euclid of Alexandria

Euripides Heraclitus of Ephesus Herodotus of Halicarnassus Hippocrates of Cos Homer Leonidas I of Sparta Pericles Phidias Philip II of Macedon

Plato Praxiteles of Athens Pythagoras of Samos Socrates Solon Sophocles Thales of Miletus Themistocles of Athens Thucydides

Byzantine Era (6)

• Basil II (the Bulgar-Slayer)
• Constantine I
• Constantine XI Palaiologos
• Justinian I
• Plethon, Georgius Gemistos
• Theotokópoulos, Doménicos (El Greco)

Modern Era (67)

Andronikos, Manolis Angelopoulos, Theodoros Beloyiannis, Nikos Bouboulina, Laskarina Callas, Maria Carathéodory, Constantin Castoriadis, Cornelius Cavafy, Constantine P. Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens Cosmas of Aetolia Diakos, Athanasios Dimas, Pyrros Dragoumis, Ion Elytis, Odysseas Feraios, Rigas Florakis, Charilaos Galis, Nick Glezos, Manolis Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, Helene Hadjidakis, Manos Horn, Dimitris Kapodistrias, Ioannis Karaiskakis, Georgios

Karamanlis, Constantine Kazantzakis, Nikos Kazantzidis, Stelios Kolokotronis, Theodoros Korais, Adamantios Koun, Karolos Lambrakis, Gregoris Lazopoulos, Lakis Loïzos, Manos Makriyannis, Yannis Margioris, Nikolaos A. Melas, Pavlos Mercouri, Melina Metaxas, Ioannis Mitropoulos, Dimitris Nanopoulos, Dimitri Onassis, Aristotle Otto of Greece Palamas, Kostis Panagoulis, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Alexandros Papadopoulos, Georgios

Papandreou, Andreas Papandreou, George (senior) Papanikolaou, Georgios Paxinou, Katina Plastiras, Nikolaos Ritsos, Yiannis Seferis, Giorgos Simitis, Costas Solomos, Dionysios Theodorakis, Mikis Trikoupis, Charilaos Tsitsanis, Vassilis Unknown Soldier Vamvakaris, Markos Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou) Veggos, Thanasis Velouchiotis, Aris Venizelos, Eleftherios Vougiouklaki, Aliki Xilouris, Nikos Zagorakis, Theodoros

By discipline

Leaders (37)

Alexander the Great Basil II (the Bulgar-Slayer) Beloyiannis, Nikos Bouboulina, Laskarina Constantine XI Palaiologos Diakos, Athanasios Cleisthenes Dragoumis, Ion Feraios, Rigas Florakis, Charilaos Glezos, Manolis Justinian I Kapodistrias, Ioannis

Karaiskakis, Georgios Karamanlis, Constantine Kolokotronis, Theodoros Lambrakis, Gregoris Leonidas I of Sparta Makriyannis, Yannis Melas, Pavlos Mercouri, Melina Metaxas, Ioannis Otto of Greece Panagoulis, Alexandros Papadopoulos, Georgios

Papandreou, Andreas Papandreou, George (senior) Pericles Phidias Philip II of Macedon Plastiras, Nikolaos Plethon, Georgius Gemistos Simitis, Costas Themistocles Trikoupis, Charilaos Velouchiotis, Aris Venizelos, Eleftherios

Artists (33)

Angelopoulos, Theodoros Aeschylus Aristophanes Callas, Maria Cavafy, Constantine P. Elytis, Odysseas Euripides Hadjidakis, Manos Horn, Dimitris Kazantzakis, Nikos Kazantzidis, Stelios

Koun, Karolos Lazopoulos, Lakis Loïzos, Manos Mitropoulos, Dimitris Palamas, Kostis Papadiamantis, Alexandros Paxinou, Katina Praxiteles Ritsos, Yiannis Seferis, Giorgos

Solomos, Dionysios Sophocles Theodorakis, Mikis Theotokópoulos, Doménicos (El Greco) Tsitsanis, Vassilis Vamvakaris, Markos Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou) Veggos, Thanasis Vougiouklaki, Aliki Xilouris, Nikos

Intellectuals (22)

Andronikos, Manolis Archimedes of Syracuse Aristotle Carathéodory, Constantin Castoriadis, Cornelius Democritus Epicurus Euclid

Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, Helene Heraclitus Herodotus Hippocrates Homer Korais, Adamantios Nanopoulos, Dimitri

Papanikolaou, Georgios Plato Pythagoras Socrates Solon Thales of Miletus Thucydides

Religion (4)

• Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens
• Cosmas of Aetolia
• Margioris, Nikolaos A.
• Constantine I

Sports (3)

• Galis, Nick
• Dimas, Pyrros
• Zagorakis, Theodoros

Business (1)

• Onassis, Aristotle

Other (1)

• Unknown Soldier

See also

• 100 greatest Britons
• Greatest Britons spin-offs
• List of Greeks

External links

• Skai.gr. "Μεγάλοι Έλληνες"
• Skai TV official website
• BBC Press release on the original British version of the format
• Kathimerini (English Edition). The 100 greatest Greeks of all time. 16 May 2008.