The Parthenon was far more than a temple. It was Athens’ ultimate power move, which combined religion, politics, and economic ...

The Near & Far Kastellorizo International Music Festival, dedicated to the Greek diaspora, comes to for the first time from ...

Greek opinion is divided over the government’s plan to offer the Parthenon and other heritage sites as film and photo backdrops to raise revenue during its current economic crisis. “This is ...

In his Aug. 13 article "Summer Olympics -- Athens 2004: On the Games," Stefan Fatsis states that, at the time of the 1821 Greek revolution, modern Greek and ancient Greek "shared little beyond an ...

In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded, and probably ...

An official traveler just back from Athens reported that one of the most baffling questions in Greece was red paint. Like nearly everything else in that country, red paint could not be had at any ...

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Lyrical duelists in Cyprus spit rhymes in head-to-head contests, keeping alive a tradition known as “tsiattista” that emerged ...

Watching “Pericles” Friday night in a rapt crowd of fellow Chicagoans, all clearly delighted that the RSC has come back in town for the first time in some 30 years, I was struck by how even ...