With a feeling of unspeakable sadness, the President, the members of the Board of Directors, the Director, and the staff of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi bid farewell to its President of nearly three decades, Eleni Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, with respect and gratitude.

Eleni Glykatzi-Ahrweiler was a historian of global renown, an academic of international stature, a great Greek and European, with special recognition for her scientific and administrative work in her second homeland, France, but also internationally, as well as a public intellectual with rare intellectual boldness. Through her writing and teaching, she highlighted Byzantine history as an essential and living part of European identity. Her thinking combined scientific rigor with a deeply humanistic perspective, always seeking the meaning and value of historical knowledge for the present and the future.

Her long tenure at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi had a decisive influence on its character and orientation. Under her presidency, the Centre established itself as a place of international intellectual encounter, dialogue and reflection. For her, Delphi was not simply a place of historical memory, but a laboratory of thought where cultures, ideas, and scientific traditions could converse on equal terms.

In an unpublished poetic text, she wrote:

“I keep few names in my final reckoning:

a faithful dog, a cat, and a few people.

I hold awe for the eternal beauty of places

and for the thrill of first admiration…”

This measure of life also determined her contribution to the European Cultural Centre of Delphi. This is how she understood it and how she served it: as a place of wonder and eternal beauty, reflection and meaningful encounters.

The memory of Eleni Glykatzi-Ahrweiler will remain in Delphi as a measure of thought and spiritual attitude. Her legacy will continue to illuminate the course and mission of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi.

RESOLUTION

The Board of Directors of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi convened an extraordinary meeting following the announcement of the loss of its President of almost three decades, Eleni Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, and, recognizing her invaluable contribution to the Center and to the European intellectual sphere, unanimously decided the following:

1. A wreath should be laid in her memory.
2. A symbolic monetary donation should be made in her memory to the association “ELPIDA – Association of Friends of Children with Cancer.”
3. August 29, her birthday, as an annual day of remembrance at the European Cultural Center of Delphi, which will be honored with a lecture dedicated to Hellenism, with an emphasis on Byzantine and Asia Minor Hellenism.