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"Eugenia Limitation"

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Eugenia Periori (Didymoticho, 1928 – 1 August 2007, Athens), was a Greek director, archaeologist, actress, folklore and writer as well as one of the most important forms of production of Greek radio and television programmes.

Biographical data

Personal life and studies
Eugenia Periori was born in Didymoteiho in March 1928 and was the daughter of Panayiotis Perioris and wife of Basil Gabrielis. She also spoke English and Hebrew, while staying in Athens, originally in the district of the Vineyards and in her last years in Maroussi. He studied theatre and directing at the Habima School, Israel, as well as archaeology in Israel. She then completed her studies in archaeology in Greece. He died on August 1, 2007 and was buried in Amarusiou cemetery.

Vocational career
During her studies in Greece, she became involved in the theatre by participating in the troupe of the People's Theatre of Manos Katrakis playing in the works "Egenia Grande", "Man of the Devil", "Functions", "Othello", "Deep are the roots", "The lover of the herd" and "Christ is crucified again".

Emissions & Filmography
At the same time (1956) she began her collaboration with the EIP for which she writes the radio shows "Lost Cultures" broadcast in 1957 – 1958, the "Big figures" (1958 – 1960) and "Greek Folklore" (1960–1962). At the same time, however, due to the great success of her first series of shows, she also started her collaboration with YENED for which she wrote the shows "Laographic" (1958 – 1961), the classical series "Greek Mythology" (1961 – 1972), which was a great radio success as shown by her duration and reportedly broadcast in 15 countries, "Cyprus, the island of Venus" (1965 – 1968), and "Travels in the country of gods and heroes" (1967 – 1971). From 1964 she began her collaboration with the Cyprus Radio Foundation on whose behalf she wrote the shows "Historical Moments" (1964 – 1966), "Child Theatre" (1964 – 1966) as well as the following five plays for radio: "The boat passed", "Crime in April", "Athanasios Diakos", "The expense" and "Our stone house", while for television he also wrote the shows "To know Greece" (1969 – 1972) , "The roots of our race" which began to be broadcast in 1975 and "Thryles and music" (1984). He had also done many cover-up film scripts for radio broadcast on the theatre shows "The Wednesday Theatre" and "The Sunday Theatre".

All the above radio and television series, which he wrote in about 2,500 radio episodes and 500 film documentaries, had a historical, archaeological and folklore character. The texts, directing, filming, editing and even their musical investment were hers.

Workery
Later he also engaged in writing historical and religious