The history of Modern Greek at Harvard University began in 1828, just a few years after the Greek War of Independence started ...

Since emerging less than a decade ago from a brutal financial crisis, a story told in sprawling murals and tangled graffiti ...

For 41 years, the Larnaca Festival has been one of Cyprus’ most important cultural institutions, offering quality productions ...

Evgeny Zamyatin that 'real literature can be created only by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and sceptics, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries'. Discuss - as they say - with ...

The Greek poet George Seferis’ 1950 trip to Cappadocia produced a short book that remains invaluable to today’s visitor, both as a guide to the region and as a window onto its dramatic transformation ...

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On Europe Day, 9 May 2026, the Athens Philharmonic International Peace Concert brought a message of peace, culture and human solidarity to audiences across Europe and beyond through a major ...

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF CAVAFY (234 pp.)—Translated by Rae Dalven—Harcourt, Brace & World ($6.75). POEMS (127 pp.)—George Seferis—Translated by Rex Warner—Atlantic-Little, Brown ($3.75). The two ...

It once housed the fanciest shops and restaurants in Greece’s capital city – then it crashed. Now the area is reborn as a vibrant, multicultural neighbourhood After my father’s will banned me and my ...

We have all learned, we all know, that in dictatorial regimes the beginning may seem easy. Yet tragedy waits at the end, inescapably. It is this tragic ending that consciously or unconsciously ...