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Almond trees in Ancient Greek lore

February 26, 2021 Culture | Society

In Greek mythology, as in many myths and popular folk traditions around the world, plants, rivers, lakes and other elements of the natural world are viewed as animate beings. They may be personified in the form of deities, as in the case of river gods, or…

Arts in Greece | Eleni Vernadaki: Modern Greece’s Priestess of Ceramic Art

February 25, 2021 Culture | Society

Ceramics (derived from “Keramos”, Greek for 'potter's clay') is one of the most ancient industries going back thousands of years. Even though there is a long history of ceramic art in almost all developed cultures, it particularly thrived during Greek…

BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Slaves in their Chains” by Konstantinos Theotokis

February 23, 2021 Reading Greece

Considered as Konstantinos Theotokis’s most personal work and artistically his finest, the novel Slaves in their Chains (1922), set in Corfu, condenses more than fifty years of social change that began with the union of the Ionian Islands with Greece in 1864.…

40 years of Greece’s membership to the EU

Feb 23, 2021 Politics | Polity
Architect Ernst Ziller and his rich legacy in Greece

Feb 22, 2021 Culture | Society
Destination: Journey. Around the world with the tribute of the 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

Feb 18, 2021 Culture | Society
Byzantine and post-Byzantine Monasteries in Attica

Feb 18, 2021 Culture | Society
POEM OF THE MONTH: “Hellas” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Feb 16, 2021 Reading Greece
Arts in Greece | Jannis Kounellis, Greece’s founding father of Arte Povera

Feb 16, 2021 Culture | Society
The medieval ghost town of Mystras

Feb 15, 2021 Culture | Society
Filming Greece | Digger: Georgis Grigorakis and the fragility of the lone rider

Feb 12, 2021 Filming Greece
2023 ELEVSIS – The European Capital of Culture enters a new era

Feb 11, 2021 Culture | Society
Ioannis Kapodistrias, Modern Greece’s first head of state

Feb 10, 2021 Culture | Society
Int'l Greek Language Day – Why we learn Greek

Feb 09, 2021 Business | Innovation | Education
Reading Greece: Thanos Gogos on Literature as a Means to Balance in Emotionally Turbulent Times and Struggle in Socially Dynamic Ones

Feb 09, 2021 Reading Greece
Ancient shipwrecks discovered off Kasos

Feb 08, 2021 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Petros Tatsopoulos on the unbreakable spell of storytelling

Feb 05, 2021 Reading Greece
USA & Greece: Celebrating 200 Years of Friendship

Feb 04, 2021 Culture | Society
3 February 1830: Greece becomes a state

Feb 03, 2021 Culture | Society
Antiquarianism and Philhellenism | An emblematic exhibition to celebrate the Greek War of Independence bicentennial

Feb 02, 2021 Culture | Society
The new Student Visas: An extra reason to study in Greece

Feb 01, 2021 Politics | Polity
Arts in Greece | Exploring the Athens Metro, Greece’s Underground “Museum”

Jan 29, 2021 Culture | Society
On-line Conference highlights on Reinforcing bridges between Greek Universities and the Greek Diaspora

Jan 28, 2021 Business | Innovation | Education
“Heritage and Memory: A Focus on Jewish Greece” a virtual event for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27.01)

Jan 27, 2021 Culture | Society
POEM OF THE MONTH: "Postscript" by Takis Varvitsiotis

Jan 25, 2021 Reading Greece
Arts in Greece | Dimitrios Filippotis, between Neoclassicism and Realism

Jan 24, 2021 Culture | Society
BOOK OF THE MONTH: ‘Foreign Words’ by Vassilis Alexakis

Jan 22, 2021 Reading Greece
On-line Conference on Reinforcing bridges between Greek Universities and the Greek Diaspora

Jan 20, 2021 Business | Innovation | Education
FORTH, the Foundation for Research and Technology in the island of Crete

Jan 20, 2021 Business | Innovation | Education
Byzantine and Christian Virtual Museum

Jan 19, 2021 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | Yannis Pappas, the sculptor of Greece’s historical figures

Jan 18, 2021 Culture | Society
DIGITAL EXHIBITION OF DISTINCTIVE WORKS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PAINTING COMPETITION "NEAR OR FAR, WE ARE ALL ONE"

Jan 15, 2021 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Aris Maragkopoulos on Literary Writing and Literary Critique as Two Streams Pouring into the Same River of Creation

Jan 15, 2021 Reading Greece
Early Christian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki

Jan 14, 2021 Culture | Society
The Digital Transformation “bible” of Greece (2020-2025)

Jan 13, 2021 Business | Innovation | Education
Athos Digital Heritage: Discovering the Cultural Treasures of Mt Athos in the Digital Age

Jan 12, 2021 Business | Innovation | Education
Filming Greece | Being Christos Nikou: Interview with the director of the Greek Oscar nomination

Jan 10, 2021 Filming Greece
Reading Greece: Elena Pallantza on Greek Literature in Germany and Translation as a Means to Foster Understanding Between Languages and Cultures

Jan 07, 2021 Reading Greece
“Greece 2021” | The celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the country’s Independence War

Jan 06, 2021 Culture | Society
POEM OF THE MONTH: ‘Christmas 1948’ by Miltos Sachtouris

Dec 30, 2020 Reading Greece
GNA’s most popular interviews & articles for 2020

Dec 29, 2020 Opinion | Analysis
BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Christmas Short Stories" by Alexandros Papadiamantis

Dec 24, 2020 Reading Greece
Greek and Roman origins of Christmas traditions

Dec 22, 2020 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | Nikephoros Lytras, the Artist behind Greek Christmas’ Most Celebrated Painting

Dec 22, 2020 Culture | Society
Chestnuts: One of Greece’s Winter Delicacies

Dec 21, 2020 Culture | Society
The Economics Olympiad organized by the Secretariat General of Public Diplomacy and Greeks Abroad and KEFiM

Dec 18, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Filming Greece | Stavros Psillakis, the psychoanalyst engineer

Dec 18, 2020 Filming Greece
Katina Paxinou, a Greek stage legend

Dec 16, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Dimitra Kolliakou on Writing as a Means to Explore Unknown Territory and Experiment with Language

Dec 16, 2020 Reading Greece
The Chapel of Agios Nikolaos Thon repaired to its former glory

Dec 15, 2020 Culture | Society
Professor Spyridon Vlachopoulos on the coronavirus pandemic and the impact on human rights

Dec 14, 2020 Rethinking Greece
Arts in Greece | Intl Mountain Day: Paying Tribute to Mt Olympus & Vassilis Ithakissios, the Olympian Artist

Dec 11, 2020 Culture | Society
Patras World Poetry Festival: A International Celebration of Poetry

Dec 10, 2020 Reading Greece
Patras Science Park, one of the first and leading science parks in Greece

Dec 09, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Reading Greece: Minos Efstathiadis on Crime Fiction as a Means to Describe the Human Condition

Dec 08, 2020 Reading Greece
Colonel Mordechai Frizis, the first Greek senior officer to die in WWII

Dec 06, 2020 Culture | Society
Filming Greece | Sonia Liza Kenterman on life and films made to measure

Dec 04, 2020 Filming Greece
Reading Greece: Nikolas Evantinos on Poetry as the Deepest Music of Language

Dec 03, 2020 Reading Greece
Arts in Greece | Sophia Laskaridou, the first woman at the Athens School of Fine Arts

Dec 01, 2020 Culture | Society
The Athens War Museum

Nov 30, 2020 Culture | Society
The fascinating world of Nanotechnology & the LTFN Lab of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Nov 30, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Reading Greece: Antigone Vlavianou on Comparative Analysis as a Means to Approach Literature

Nov 27, 2020 Reading Greece
23rd Olympia International Film Festival: Films you can’t afford to miss

Nov 26, 2020 Culture | Society
Operation Harling – Gorgopotamos and the Greek Resistance

Nov 24, 2020 Culture | Society
POEM OF THE MONTH: “Bolivar” by Nikos Engonopoulos

Nov 24, 2020 Reading Greece
Arts in Greece | The First Cemetery of Athens, an open-air "museum"

Nov 22, 2020 Culture | Society
The ending of the Greek Chairmanship, the first e-Chairmanship, of the Council of Europe

Nov 20, 2020 Politics | Polity
Beyond Socrates - Greek philosophers you might not know

Nov 19, 2020 Culture | Society
The 17th Thessaloniki Book Fair Goes Digital

Nov 18, 2020 Reading Greece
Athens Polytechnic Uprising 47th anniversary

Nov 17, 2020 Politics | Polity
The 3rd edition of the Athens International Children's Film Festival is here for free!

Nov 16, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Lenia Safiropoulou on Poetry and Music as Communicating Vessels

Nov 13, 2020 Reading Greece
Filming Greece | Iris Baglanea on the Liberating Power of Trauma

Nov 12, 2020 Filming Greece
The “Smart Green Island” of Astypalea

Nov 11, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Greek yogurt: tradition exported

Nov 09, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Arts in Greece | Fotis Kontoglou, The Greatest Icon-Painter of Modern Greece

Nov 09, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Christopher Merrill on Poetry, Translation and the Role of Cultural Diplomacy in an Increasingly Globalized World

Nov 06, 2020 Reading Greece
61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Cinema, No Matter What!

Nov 05, 2020 Culture | Society
Greece officially nominates strong candidate for OECD SecGen, former EU Commissioner Anna Diamantopoulou

Nov 04, 2020 Politics | Polity
Greek olive oil: the history and the future of a multifaceted product

Nov 04, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
The Monastery of Daphni: retracing the city's Byzantine past

Nov 02, 2020 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | The Evzones, Greece’s symbol of heroism, through the eyes of contemporary Greek artists

Nov 02, 2020 Culture | Society
Cyprus - History and Culture

Oct 29, 2020 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | Takis: A World-Renowned Pioneer Of Kinetic Art

Oct 29, 2020 Culture | Society
Museum of the victims of Nazism in Distomo

Oct 27, 2020 Culture | Society
The Greek films of the 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Oct 26, 2020 Culture | Society
BOOK OF THE MONTH: ‘Invalids and Wayfarers’ by George Theotokas

Oct 23, 2020 Reading Greece
Filming Greece | Alexis Koukias - Pantelis on Difficult Goodbyes

Oct 22, 2020 Filming Greece
HELIOS project for the integration of refugees in Greece and the EU

Oct 21, 2020 Politics | Polity
Athens Photo Festival 2020

Oct 19, 2020 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | Art Athina 2020 Goes Virtual - Creative Athens Perseveres Through the COVID-19 pandemic

Oct 19, 2020 Culture | Society
Kerameikos, the necropolis of Athens

Oct 16, 2020 Culture | Society
Reading Greece: Eva Karaitidi on the History of Hestia Editions and the Greek Publishing Landscape

Oct 15, 2020 Reading Greece
Big technology investments to improve Greece’s innovation and digital footprint

Oct 14, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
Filming Greece | Despina Kourti on Giving Voice to the "Ordinary People"

Oct 13, 2020 Filming Greece
Philippi: a "small Rome" in Macedonia

Oct 12, 2020 Culture | Society
Arts in Greece | A Tribute to Greek sculptor Yannoulis Chalepas on the occasion of World Mental Health Day

Oct 09, 2020 Culture | Society
Guilty verdict for Golden Dawn met with unanimous approval

Oct 08, 2020 Politics | Polity
Reading Greece: Mihalis Makropoulos on Literature as a Means to Narrate Human Adventures and Personal Quests

Oct 08, 2020 Reading Greece
Greek Shipping: An important global actor in line with the Greek maritime spirit

Oct 07, 2020 Business | Innovation | Education
The Greek language around the world! staellinika.com

Oct 06, 2020 Culture | Society
Filming Greece | LAGFF Director Aris Katopodis on Modern Greek Cinema and the adventures of Going Online

Oct 06, 2020 Filming Greece
Lesbos - An island of culture and history

Oct 04, 2020 Culture | Society

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