Category: Greece: ancient and modern

    The Exhibition, “Hellenic Heads”, a Personal Exploration of Greek History and Culture over 2,500 Years, by renowned Greek-American sculptor George Petrides, is heading for Venice! Six huge heads, each one standing over...

    Located a short distance from the resort town of Loutraki, known for its natural spring waters and about 75 kilometers west of Athens is the Heraion of Perachora.  This sanctuary is dedicated...

    The Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae is a unique, one-of-a-kind ancient Greek sanctuary, dedicated to the god Apollo Epicurius (“Apollo the helper”). It is located approximately 230 km south of Athens,...

    Greek-American Theodoros Stamos, the youngest member of the original group of abstract expressionist painters, the “Irascibles”, which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, is recognised as one of the...

    The Attic or Athenian calendar (one of many ancient Greek calendars), a Festival calendar (lunisolar), with twelve months, each named after a festival or a god, was exclusive to the goings on...

    Today, the Parthenon, built on the Acropolis of Athens between 447 and 438 B.CE, is more or less a collection of roofless pillars.  However, although over the years there had been many...

    Greek philosopher, Aristotle (384–322 BC), one of the greatest and most influential philosophers of all time, as well as being an important figure in the history of science, mathematics and theater, founded...

  On the 18th of August 1917, Thessaloniki, the second-largest city in Greece, home to thousands of refugees and one of the largest and most modern cities in Europe at the time, went up...

    The Greeks have regarded the acanthus as a symbolic, medicinal and healing plant since the times of the ancients. The acanthus, a hardy flowering perennial plant, sometimes also referred to as “bear’s...