Top 15 Greek Christmas and New Year Traditions
Every culture has its own unique, sometimes quirky, customs and traditions. Greece is no exception and seems to have more than its fair share of Christmas and New Year celebrations. The twelve...
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Ancient Greek Myths about Birds
In ancient Greece, birds represented power, freedom and wisdom and show up in numerous Greek myths and legends where they most often appear as messengers of the gods, oracles and even gods...
Aphrodite of Knidos – First Naked Female Greek Statue – Most Copied in the World
During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, statues of Aphrodite were everywhere; mostly modeled on Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Knidos, the first naked female Greek statue and the most widely copied in the world....
10 Feared Female Creatures of Greek Mythology
Have you ever thought about why so many leading ladies in ancient Greek mythology are usually in the guise of wicked witches, devious femme fatales, evil goddesses and fearsome monsters? I’m no...
The 10 Most Desirable Hetairai – Courtesans of Ancient Greece
Hetairai (ancient Greek courtesans), the polite term for a ‘kept mistress’, were beautiful, sophisticated, educated and respected women who were, without a doubt, the most liberated women of ancient Greece. They were retained...
12 Curious Cures and Remarkable Remedies of Ancient Greece
Although the ancient Greeks mostly believed illness to be a divine punishment and that the cure or remedy was a gift from the gods, they were not afraid to seek help from...
10 of the Saddest Love Stories in Greek Mythology
All’s fair in love and war, or so they say. Back in ancient Greece though, love had much more to contend with, such as vengeful and envious gods, or Apate; the personification...
5 World Famous Logos Inspired by Greek Mythology
There’s a story behind everything and behind the following five world famous logos, the story is Greek. Greece has given so much to the world that most of the time we don’t...
Did You Know These 10 Iconic Cities Began As Greek Colonies?
From ancient times, without interruption, up until today, Greece, with its endless coastline, inlets and deep bays, which created natural harbours, has been a nation of seafarers. The sea, instilled in the...
10 of the Weirdest Deaths in Ancient Greece
You won’t believe the ways in which these ancient Greeks died, some senseless, some embarrassing, some ridiculous, some hilarious but all curious, unusual and bizarre. Samuel Johnson, English critic, biographer, essayist and...
