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 ...

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Figs, Syko in Greek, represented an important product of the ancient Athenian economy. Credit: E.Abadjieva/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 We all know about the great richness of Greek words and how ...

He says there’s something for everyone to learn and celebrate the Greek culture. “The history of the faith and a lot of the symbols and iconography and things that we have inside our parish.

Particularly notable is the identification of a room with a pebbled floor and wall frescoes imitating marble—likely an andron, a formal space for entertaining male guests in ancient Greek ...

more fluid approach in vocal music reflected a deeper cultural divide. In ancient Greek thought, this difference symbolized two forces. Apollo, god of the lyre, stood for order, logic, and harmony.

However, they had a keen sense of their combinatorial limitations on instruments ... music (mathematical, precise, restrained) and vocal music (free, expressive, changing) reflects an ancient symbolic ...