The judging panel for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, presented annually for a book about Greece, has finalized the shortlist for the 2024 competition.
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Maria Kamilaki, linguist and deputy head of the General Directorate of Electronic Administration, Library and Publications at the Hellenic Parliament gave Kathimerini a guided tour through the history of the library and its archives.
His political career lasted over half a century; it was full of crises, scandals, even an assassination attempt. But some of the most dramatic passages in the memoirs of Wolfgang Schaeuble concern Greece.
Oriana Fallaci was world-famous in the 1970s as a provocative interviewer and journalist, but few remember her name today outside of Europe. ORIANA: A Novel of Oriana Fallaci aims to change that.
The oldest archaeological evidence of domesticated dog bones comprises two significant discoveries: one in Germany, dating back 14,700 years, where a dog was buried alongside a couple; and another in Israel, dating back 12,000 years, where a woman was buried with a puppy nestled under her arm, only a few months […]
“Democracy is always unfinished business. It is not a recipe for Paradise on Earth,” John Keane, the renowned professor of political science at the University of Sydney, tells Kathimerini.
Residents of Piraeus on Tuesday welcomed the re-opening of the port city’s public library after it was closed down for a revamp that lasted several months.
The concrete frames of buildings punctuating the urban landscape of Athens is the focus of a year of research by artist and director Maria Lalou and the Danish architect Skafte Aymo-Boot that culminated in the Greek/English book “Unfinished” (Jap Sam Books).
Everybody knows that the publishing industry is a rigorously stratified world, characterized by a reverence for hierarchy and a near-fanatical observance of ritual.
A network of thousands of underground spaces are scattered beneath Athens. Pedestrians hurry past them, not suspecting that the metal lid of a manhole they have just stepped on is one of the gates to a vast web of spaces, which for decades has been sealed in silence and oblivion.
The National Library of Greece (NLG) is looking forward to the appointment of a new director general who will bring order to the “organizational and administrative chaos” that has descended over the country’s biggest treasury of intellectual assets since the death of its former head.
A few days ago, some 50 or so Athenians, mostly Greek and American, gathered at the invitation of his family to celebrate – in the home where he had lived and worked and hosted similar gatherings over the decades – their late friend John Chapple. It was his birthday. He would have turned 86.
French people are often surprised that foreigners come to France to study ancient Greece. It is easy for them to understand why foreign philosophers might go there.
The monuments on the Acropolis of Athens and any work carried out on the Sacred Rock always tend to draw attention.
Victoria Hislop first visited Greece with her mother and sister in 1976, at the age of 17.
He opened his Facebook business page for the usual reason. A comic book creator, after all, uses technology to showcase their work and network with others. On that day, however, Elias Chatzoudis “connected” with something else.
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