Some of Athens's architectural landmarks were destroyed to make way for modern buildings due to the rapid economic ...

The modern Greek Christmas table, featuring roasted turkey, is a recent development. Seventy years ago, turkey was ...

(The Conversation) — From ancient Greece to modern-day TikTok witchcraft, the world of witches has been a changing one. Despite a troubled history, there are people today who consider themselves ...

The Acropolis Museum opened in Athens last weekend amid controversy that Greek officials did everything possible to stir up. It wasn't enough that, after years of delays, Greece finally had a gleaming ...

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 ...

With an uncanny frequency, one can find traces of classic events being repeated in our current era. Plato wrote in “Timaeus” of the events surrounding Phaethon, son of Helios who stole away with his ...

The current escalation between Ankara and Athens is not exceptional considering their turbulent past, said a prominent Turkish scholar on modern Greek history. Excluding the 1930s when both countries ...

For millions of tourists who flock to Athens every year, the city at the foot of the Acropolis represents the cradle of democracy and the sublime art of antiquity. But to crime writer Petros Markaris, ...

The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...