[Destro]

Whatever the truth, Ruth G. Durlacher Wolper is a real published scholar.

I think I recall reading that Columbus kept bringing up creating wealth to use for a new Crusade for the liberation of Constantinople as a motive for his trip to the Indies (using the Ptolomies charts no less).

[My2Cents]

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.

[muawiyah]

Christopher Columbus learned his navigational skills working on ships owned by Rene d'Anjou. Rene was Isabella's grandfather (among other things - I think he's also an ancestor of Henry IV, the Huguenot who became King of France). Rene managed to support two wives, one of whom was the last Valois Princess, and three concubines. There is a real possibility Chris was one of Rene's relatives (the red hair is a clue!).

There's never really been a question about Columbus having access to the royal courts of Brittany, France and Spain. He even married a Braganza Princess and would have had access to the Portuguese Court except King John was busy executing his cousins for treason.

[pabianice]

No. He was a Ukrainian Jew. With black great-grandparents. And he had a gay step-brother. And he voted Democrat.

[Savage Beast]

It's true that the Greeks are chauvinistic. When they calculate the population of Greece, they include all those living abroad.

I always knew that we Americans were decendants of the cultured and enlightened rather than those upstart Romans.

[eleni121]

Given the the time frame (15th century) and parallel events (Greeks fleeing from Byzantium and other parts to the west after Constantinople fell to the Muslim Turks), I wouldn't be surprised to hear this. After all, El Greco the artist (real name Domenicos Theodorokopoulos)left Crete to go West as well, along with many others.

Fascinating...

[brewcrew]

Sorry, I misread the title. I thought you were asking if Columbus was a geek. Nevermind.

[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.

[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.

[BlueLancer]

Doesn't look Greek to me.

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