The history of Modern Greek at Harvard University began in 1828, just a few years after the Greek War of Independence started ...

Believe it or not, some of my favorite kinds of books are the ones that pull from stories I already know. Whether it's adapted fairy tales, re-written classic literature, updated fables, or modern ...

When Peter Mackridge, who has died aged 76 of cancer, embarked on his academic career, “Greece” was widely regarded as either a tourist destination in the sun or the preserve of classicists and ...

WHO are the modern Greeks? What is their origin? How did their national character come to be formed? Greeks today speak a language which, though not the ancient Attic tongue, is nevertheless, in a ...

Romeyka, a relative of the Modern Greek language, has a shrinking population of speakers in Turkey, but a helping hand from scholars and the general public may help it survive. Thousands of languages ...