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One of “The Big Three”, the philosopher, Plato, who was a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, founded the Platonic Academy of Athens. The Academy of ancient Athens, the turning point...
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...
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....
Saint Barbara, a third-century martyr, lived in Nicomedia with her rich pagan father, Dioscorus, who imprisoned her in a tower and after discovering she had secretly become a Christian, beheaded Barbara himself...
Images of pinecones, sacred eyes and not least, the thyrsus, the ancient Greek magic wand, have been associated with the pineal gland (named after the pinecone), since ancient times and pop up in...
On September 13th, 1922, Smyrna (now Izmir), one of the wealthiest cities of the Ottoman Empire, on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, inhabited mostly by Greeks, Jews and Armenians, went up in...
The expression “scapegoat”, known as the “pharmakos”, in ancient Greece, describes an innocent person, or group, who is blamed and usually punished in some way, for other people’s wrong-doings or problems, without...
The ancient Greek astronomers knew of five planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the star-like planets visible to the naked eye. They called these planets “wanderers”, as when seen with the...
Lusted for by royalty and sought after by collectors, rubies, diamonds, emeralds, sapphires and many more gemstones have inspired myths, legends and curses in all cultures. Today, we know of around two hundred...
You know summer’s arrived when Greeks start cooking stuffed vegetables! Gemista (Greek for filled), are summer vegetables, usually tomatoes and bell peppers but courgettes and aubergines are also firm favourites, stuffed with...
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