The 10 Week Run Up to Greek Easter
We’ve only just about recovered from Christmas and New Year, and here in Greece, the Greeks, ever on the lookout for a reason to celebrate, (actually, they don’t need a reason )...
Greeker Than The Greeks
The Antikythera Mechanism – The World’s first Computer
Over two thousand years ago the ancient Greeks were able to calculate when the first lunar eclipse was about to occur. Even more amazingly they did it with the aid of the...
Chaos in Greek Mythology – The Creation of Everything
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty” Genesis According to Greek mythology, the original meaning of the Greek word chaos means...
My Greek God – MGG – One You Won’t Have Heard Of
What made me leave England, leave friends and family behind and jump on a plane to Greece, in the blink of an eye never to return? Love made me do it. I had...
The History of Mani and the Maniates – the Fiercest and Most Ruthless People of Greece
Mani, located on the Peloponnese Peninsula, which was known in The Middle ages and Ottoman era as Morea, was one of the most inaccessible, wildest and mutinous parts of Greece which up...
35 of the The Creepiest and Most Haunted Places in Greece
Each year thousands of visitors travel to Greece and flock to all the usual tourist attractions. They sun themselves on the golden beaches and swim in the warm, turquoise waters, totally unaware...
The Caryatids of Athens and the Enchanted of Thessaloniki
Caryatids are draped, sculpted female figures, supportive Goddesses so to speak, used as decorative support in place of columns or pillars, called in Greek Karyatides. The most famous caryatids of Greece stand...
The Naked Sponge Divers of Kalymnos Greece
Owing to the fact that only 18% of the rocky, infertile land of the small volcanic island of Kalymnos, one of the Dodecanese in the southeast Aegean, Greece, was suitable for cultivation, the...
Pandora’s Box – The Greek Myth Behind the Creation of Man
Pandora’s Box is one of the most loved Greek myths. However, saying that, to fully understand this marvelous myth and how Pandora came to be the first mortal woman on earth, the...
Saint Vasilios – Basil the Great – Bishop of Caesarea
The Feast Day of Agios Vasilios, known as Basil the Great Bishop of Caesarea, is celebrated on the first of January, New Year’s Day. Traditionally Greek children don’t receive presents from Santa Claus,...
