“I’ve never been more angry than at the way the Greek crisis was covered by the German media. It was so cheap.
HISTORY
This should be an exciting time in the long story of the Greeks and the Indians.
Relay runners are now carrying the Olympic Torch to Paris. With the 2024 Olympics fast approaching, debate is again heating up about how much countries spend on national Olympic teams.
With commemorations of the Armenian Genocide taking place across the world, there is a renewed fear that the lessons of “Never Again” have been forgotten following Azerbaijan’s attack on Nagorno Karabakh and its continued threats.
Defense Minister Nikos Dendias attended an event held at Trinity College Cambridge on Friday marking the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death.
Defense Minister Nikos Dendias has attended the opening of a two-day festival at Trinity College Cambridge in England to mark with the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death on 19 April 1824, in Messolongi, Greece.
Just outside the site of the ancient Olympic Games, hooting owls break the nighttime silence at a white marble monument containing what’s left of a singular Frenchman’s heart.
Nine years after the vandalism of the monument dedicated to 19th century French philhellenes General Charles Nicolas Fabvier and Francois Robert, who fought valiantly in the struggle for Greek independence, all that is left is its base, which is sometimes used as a coffee table for passers-by on the Dionysiou Areopagitou pedestrian road ringing the Acropolis in Athens.
What can Thucydides tell us about our world today? Professor Andrew Novo, a scholar of ancient and modern Mediterranean history and strategic studies, joins Thanos Davelis to look at the lessons we should take away from Thucydides in a new era of great power politics.
Sean Mathews, a Greece based journalist covering the broader region, and George Manginis, the academic director at the Benaki Museum, join Thanos Davelis to break down how the search for an antique can give us insight into Thessaloniki’s rich history, and look at how current efforts to shine a light on the city’s past cosmopolitanism are increasingly important in a changing region.
Professor Roderick Beaton joins Thanos Davelis to celebrate Greek Independence Day by looking into Lord Byron’s important contributions to the Greek cause.
Three Hellenic Navy ships will open to the public over four days as part of the celebrations for the Greek Independence Day on March 25.
A handwritten notebook with “Ode to Lord Byron” by Greece’s national poet Dionysios Solomos underwent conservation at the Byzantine & Christian Museum in Athens.
The Demos Center (17B Ipitou, Plaka), part of the Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts at Deree – The American College of Greece, will be hosting “The Governor: Ioannis Kapodistrias + The Making of Modern Hellas,” a discussion about Ioannis Kapodistrias’ diplomatic finesse, administrative acumen, and cultural contributions, illuminating his pivotal role in shaping the Greek nation-state and leaving an indelible mark on European diplomacy during the 19th century.
In a museum storage depot in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, a 17th-century painting by a Dutch old master is packed away, unseen and unappreciated.
An anonymous tip led to the arrest of a 44-year-old antiquities smuggler in Vatondas on the island of Evia on Monday for attempting to sell 38 Hellenistic-era silver coins.
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