The Parthenon Beyond Worship: An Art of Subconscious Intimidation
The Parthenon was more than just a temple to Athena. It was ancient Athens’ treasury, propaganda machine, and political nerve center all wra...
Ten Greek Herbs That Can Improve Your Health
Greek herbs. Credit: Rainer Zenz/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0 The balmy weather in the Mediterranean is the perfect environment to produ...
Scientists Decode DNA of Greek Feta Cheese
Scientists Decode DNA of Greek Feta Cheese. Credit: Zone 41/Wikimedia Commons/ CC-BY-2.0 According to the Academy of Athens , scientists de...
Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek
Homer’s language lives on in modern day Greece . Photo of Book I of Homer’s Iliad. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) / CC BY-SA...
The Serene Charm of Greece’s Sikinos
View of Kastro, the largest village on the island of Sikinos, Greece . Credit: limitsios / CC BY 2.0 There are many islands in the Cyclades...
The Cretan War of 1645 Began on This Day
The Cretan War (Siege of Candia) began on this day, June 23rd, in 1645. Credit: Nicolaes Visscher, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain The Cr...
Amazing Places in Greece That You Won’t Believe Are Real
Melissani Cave (Kefalonia, Greece ). Credit: Sanshiro KUBOTA / CC BY 2.0 Greece, a land of gods and nymphs, has a number of exquisitely bea...
The Fascinating History of Romaniote Jews in Greece’s Ioannina
The Romaniote Jews of Ioannina are a Greek-speaking ethnic Jewish community native to Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. Credit: Jewish ...
Pyrgi’s Medieval Beauty on the Greek Island of Chios
Street of Pyrgi on the Greek island of Chios. Credit: Petille, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Greek island of Chios is home to one of ...
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