Even though many ancient Greeks were strong and well-trained, statues of the time went beyond naturalistic representation to showcase an ideal form of beauty. Image: Ancient Greek statue of Hermes by ...
The sound of Hagia Sophia was recreated recently by two scholars from California’s Stanford University by simply popping a balloon. Bissera Pentcheva, a professor of art history, has published a book ...
Even under the Ottoman Empire, these underground cities continued to serve as safe havens for the local Christian populations ...
Evidence of such distance between old friends is disconcerting, not least to the Greek-American community which is a vibrant and fiercely loyal part of American society. The extent and intensity of ...
Mary and Michael Jaharis are celebrated figures within the Greek-American community, known for their profound contributions to both the pharmaceutical industry and philanthropic endeavors. Their ...
The Semaphore Greek Festival returns to Semaphore Foreshore on January 18-19, 2025, celebrating its 44th year with the theme ‘Όλοι Μαζί’ (‘It Takes a Village’). This event invites everyone to ...
And it highlights the enduring phenomenon of nationalist animosity in international relationships. Against this background of received wisdom, Greeks, Turks, and their friends are assessing the impact ...
Many Greeks saw their wages and pensions slashed in return for bailouts worth 280 billion euros ($297 billion) during the debt crisis, which shaved a quarter off Greece's economic output and ...
I don’t fail to acknowledge the existence of Davies’s and Rooney’s more scholastic version of classical theism, nor do I really try to argue, as Rooney claims, that Greek theology took a ‘better path’ ...
In this map of Ancient Greece, you can spot the various regions of the mainland, the islands in the Aegean and the Ionian Sea as well as the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, a region that was first ...
Marina Christofides, the Greek-Cypriot author of The Traitor’s Club, her memoir of growing up in Cyprus, remembers how “Turkish” coffee vanished after Turkey invaded the island in 1974.