April 6 is a painful day for every Greek as it marks the beginning of…
HISTORY
The glory days of aviation in Greece began on April 6, 1957, when Aristotle Onassis…
An amazing mosaic depicting scenes from Homer’s Iliad was discovered by archaeologists excavating an elaborate…
Greek City Times is proud to present a weekly historical snapshot from the archives of…
Theodoros Kolokotronis was a general and a leading figure of the Greek War for Independence…
Although Homer’s epic poem Iliad is approximately 2,700 years old, many of the protagonists have…
The Stadium of Magnesia in modern-day Turkey was discovered in 2012. The stadium, aligned on…
I am pleased to share with you a very special document from a forthcoming paper,…
The work from the Met, on loan from a private collection, had been on view…
April Fools Day is widely celebrated in Greece. There are references to the day in…
The life of Jim Fouras that took him from a rural Greek village to Speaker…
On April 1, Cyprus commemorates the start of the insurgence against the British in 1955. Following the…
Although we know Greek history and mythology is loved all over the world, probably not…
For the first time, Homer’s heroic epic “the Odyssey” can be heard in podcast format.…
Because of the obvious visibility of breast cancer, it was the most described type of…
In the midst of the Greek War of Independence, Greeks from other islands and elsewhere…
Thessaloniki, the second largest city for most of the existence of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine)…
Greek is ranked as the richest language in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. It is well-known that languages all across the globe – including English – have borrowed a myriad of words, phrases and expressions from Greek. Here is a short list of English words that are used daily by English speakers that are fully taken from the Greek language.
One of the original Greek flags was the flag of Sacred Band and it was…
On this day in 1930, the name of the city Constantinople was officially changed to…