Greek Reporter

The Ancient Greek Author Who Revolutionized Writing and History

Hellanicus of Lesbos, born c. 480 BC in Greece, was one of the earliest, most prolific Greek logographers of the 5th century ...
CounterPunch

What We Owe the Greek

We owe the Greeks our desire to be the best and most powerful people in the world: There’s nothing more Greek than striving for excellence, choosing from one’s values, and competing with others for a ...
Wall Street Journal

‘How to Be’ Review: The Greek Mind Opens

Then, around 600 B.C., on the western coast of what is now Turkey, emerged the first in a chain of thinkers who sought to explain the universe in nonmythical terms. Among these “pre-Socratics” or ...
Greek Reporter

The Ancient Greek Island Where No One Could Be Born or Die

On the sacred island of Delos in Greece, birth and death were forbidden under strict ritual beliefs and Athenian control.
CounterPunch

War and Power in Classical Greece: Lessons for Superpowers and the World

Humans have had almost ceaseless difficulties in working and living together. Superstition, religious ideas, race, geography, ownership of land, and language engulf them so much, they often fail to ...
Indiatimes

The war that broke Greece: How Athens and Sparta destroyed their own world

The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431 to 404 BCE, is one of the most defining conflicts in the history of the ancient Greeks. The war, which saw Athens and Sparta, along with their respective ...
Travel + Leisure

Athens Is One of the World’s Most Exciting Contemporary Art Cities – Here are the Galleries and Museums to Visit

In the Greek capital, ancient history is everywhere you look. But these days, the city is also home to boundary-pushing art. A passerby might have mistaken it for a wedding feast. In Metaxourgio, a ...
UNESCO

Evidence of Italo-Greek Culture between the Early and Late Middle Ages

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...
The Financial Times

The real-world paths to hell

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In Greek mythology, Orpheus descended into the underworld to find the shade of his wife Eurydice. Then he lost her on ...
National Catholic Register

‘Window to Eternity’: World’s First Greek Catholic Museum Brings Eastern Light to Western Christian Culture

NYIREGHAZA, Hungary — Pilgrims and Byzantine art lovers from all over the world, who come in large numbers every year to the famous shrine of the Weeping Icon in Máriapócs in eastern Hungary, will now ...
World Finance

Hellenic Asset Management: the Greek economy is finding its feet after years of financial woe

The 2008 global financial crisis brought Greece to its knees. Although it has taken time, the country now has the foundations in place to bring reliable and long-lasting strength to its economy Athens ...