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The first depiction of an ancient Greek clinic is on a vase created in Athens circa 470 BC. The vase is on display at the ...
In ancient Greece, Olympic victors were crowned with olive branches, while Homer referred to the antioxidant-rich juice as “liquid gold” in his epic poems. Today, Greece remains one of the ...
The Parthenon is an incredible example of ancient Greek architecture and while it is in ruins (comparatively speaking) today, ...
The role of priestess at the Oracle of Delphi was vastly influential. The Priestess Pythia was consulted on everything from ...
Athens-based independent scholar Demetrius Savvides has shown that in Amphipolis, northern Greece, where the Kastas Monument ...
Each year, this ceremony -- called "Anastenaria" ("sighs" in Greek) -- attracts crowds of visitors. Considered a pagan ritual to honour the ancient Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis, the ancient ...
Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before removing their shoes and rushing, barefoot, onto waiting embers. The fire ...
Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before removing their shoes and rushing, barefoot, onto waiting embers.
At this Athens workshop, replicating antiquities promotes Greek culture and creates the country’s ultimate souvenirs. Plaster casts of an ancient Greek bust of Sappho, the poetess, are created ...
The response received to the question. “It’s all Greek to me” — Leinster House officials and Government Departments are pleading mystification in the strange case of a TD who received a ...
In a cinematic first, Greek director Yiannis Stravolaimos brings the 490 BCE clash to life in Ancient Greek and Old Persian, fusing myth, history, and cultural diplomacy in a bold retelling of an ...