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The Minoans and the Mycenaeans were two major Bronze Age civilizations. The Minoans, based on the island of Crete, were known for their artistic culture, ostentatious palaces (like Knossos) and their seafaring...
In ancient Greek, “oizys” (όιζυς) means all that is wretched and is synonymous with distress and misery. In Greek mythology it was the name of the little-known Oizys, a minor goddess or...
Mastika, one of Greece’s super foods, is natural gum resin, with a pine or cedar-like taste, used to flavour many traditional Greek sweets. The gum is collected from the Schinias trees which...
Greek theatre first emerged around the fifth century B.C. in Athens when plays were performed at religious festivals. The first performances were tragedies, concentrating on serious themes and moral dilemmas. Next to...
When the topic of ancient Greece and philosophy pops up you may have noticed the words of wisdom discussed more often than not came from the mouths of men. We’ve probably all...
The Feast of Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is celebrated on the 26th of December in the Catholic Church and the 27th of December in the Greek Orthodox Church. Stephen (the...
You can’t mention Greece and wine in the same sentence without Dionysus (Bacchus), Greek god of wine-making, festivity, insanity and ritual madness, rearing his decadent head. “The Dionysia” festivals, dating back to...
The largest burial site in ancient Greece, which was in continual use from the 9th century BC until the Roman invasion, is to be found in Kerameikos, one of the oldest parts...
Hypnos and Morpheus were a father and son team; Hypnos, god of sleep, sent people off to dreamland where his son, Morpheus, god of dreams, awaited ready to “Morph” himself into their...
Greek myths have fascinated us for hundreds of years. They’ve made our imaginations run wild with bewitching stories of feuding gods, heroic heroes, breathtaking beasts and mind-blowing monsters. As with myths from...
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