Literature, and especially poetry, can act as one of the most sensitive indicators of a country’s idiosyncrasy, its social, cultural, linguistic and aesthetic character. The Finnish poetry anthology Aurinkokello [Sundial in English] attempts pr…
Ioannis Balabanidis is a researcher at the Centre for Political Research in the Department of Political Science and History at Panteion University; his main research interests concern comparative politics, political parties, europeanization, and hist…
The Greek folk songs—Dimotika Tragoudia in Greek— are not only a deep spring from which modern Greek literature draws, they form a bedrock of the modern Greek vernacular itself and the roots of a young national identity. The Greek fo…
Nasia Dionysiou was born in 1979 in Cyprus where she lives. She has studied Law and International Law of Human Rights and she has been working for the Office of the Commissioner for Administration and the Protection of Human Rights since 2003. Her fi…
The web portal Study in Greece is campaigning for the promotion and international visibility of Greek Universities and the comparative educational advantages of our country. In particular, the campaign focuses on the foreign language study…
Arguably most people realize that words such as democracy, philosophy or tragedy come from Greek, since the very concepts which they represent also have their roots in Greece. And you might also suspect the Greek origins behind some strange and obscu…
The small Greek island of Tilos has made its official commitment to become a Zero Waste Candidate City, thanks to the Just Go Zero Tilos an initiative. The Zero Waste Cities Certification is a robust European third-party assessed certification standa…
In ancient Greek, the word φάρμακο (phrámakon), which Plato used as a metaphor for writing, meant both remedy and poison. It’s exactly this double meaning that inspired a group of friends to create a high-q…
The web portal Study in Greece is campaigning for the promotion and international visibility of Greek Universities and the comparative educational advantages of our country. In particular, the campaign focuses on the foreign language study…
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