‘No biting and no gouging’ – but all else fair game in “brutal” Ancient Greek…
Tag: Greek history
Ioannina, the largest city of Epirus, was incorporated into the Greek state on the 21st…
A video on YouTube shows the faces of Ancient Greeks in a realistic way like…
Pizza is a Neapolitan dish consisting of a usually round, flattened base of leavened wheat-based…
Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou (Γεώργιος Ν. Παπανικολάου) was a Greek physician who was a pioneer in cytopathology and…
Live Science reports that independent researcher Errikos Maniotis and Zeliha Demirel-Gökalp of Anadolu University have…
The Captivating History YouTube channel has released a fascinating new video related to what it…
Sicily lives long in the Greek cultural imagination. Described by Homer as the “island of…
Happy Valentine’s Day lovers! We all know that Greeks don’t need it to be Valentine’s Day to be a great lover, as we are great lovers every day. But did you know that the origins for the holiday and many of its symbols are have roots squarely planted in Ancient Greece?
Stunning Greek actress Tzeni Karezi (Τζένη Καρέζη) was born on the 12th of January 1932.…
Professor Paschalis Kitromilides speaks about his work, the Critical Dictionary of the Greek Revolution and the…
Ioannis Kapodistrias (Ιωάννης Καποδίστριας) was the first Governor of the new Greek nation from 1828…
The holy, glorious Martyr Haralambos lived at the time of Emperor Septimus Severus (194-211) in…
February 9 has officially been declared as International Greek Language Day and is a day for Greeks and…
On February 8, 1912, Emmanouil Argyropoulos (Εμμανουήλ Αργυρόπουλος) became the first Greek pilot to perform…
On February 6, 1981, Queen Frederick, Queen of the Greeks during 1947-1964, thereafter Queen mother,…
Greek General Theodoros Kolokotronis (Θεόδωρος Κολοκοτρώνης) was born on April 3, 1770, and passed away…
The Cyprus Department of Antiquities announced that recent works on the sewerage system of Kition…
On February 2nd the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates an important event in the earthly life…
“Ipapanti tou Sotiros” is one of the largest cathedrals in Messinia and celebrates its Feast…