From medicine and music to shipping, cinema, and science, modern Greeks have left a remarkable mark on the world.

The volunteer-led Pharos Alliance NSW says it has made significant early progress in its mission to strengthen and revitalise ...

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 ...

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, ...

By Georgeanne Brennan Like so many of us, I was nurtured on the stories of the gods and heroes of Greek mythology, so when an ...

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 ...

Based on the evidence of numerous Greek consular reports, speeches, memoirs, political interviews and coverage of the status and treatment of the communities by the international Jewish press, State, ...

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 ...

On October 1, the Greek media exploded with reports about the discovery of a funeral shrine that Alexander the Great may have dedicated to Hephaestion, identified in most reports as his “best friend.” ...