Reading Greece: A New Era for the City of Athens Library
The City of Athens Library, one of the most important and historic libraries of the country,...
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Tag: LITERATURE & BOOKS
Reading Greece: “Mov Koukouvagia”, a Little Bookstore in Ioannina, Epirus, that Fosters Love for Books and Reading
Little bookstores constitute an integral part of our culture and our local communities. It’s the...
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Reading Greece: Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens, Francesco Neri, on Italy as the Country of Honour at the Thessaloniki Book Fair 2025
Italy will be the country of honour at the 21st Thessaloniki Book Fair, which will take place on 8...
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Rethinking Greece | Dimitris Tziovas on Greece in Transition: Identity, Culture, and Global Engagement
Dimitris Tziovas is Professor Emeritus of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham,...
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Poetry of the Month: “Days of the Epitaph” by Nikos Gatsos
Easter, or Pascha in Greek, is the most important religious holiday of the Orthodox...
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Book of the Month: “Pope Joan” by Emmanuel Roïdes, translated into English by David Connolly
Pope Joan or Papissa Ioanna as is the title of the book in Greek, was presented by Emmanuel Roïdes...
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Reading Greece: Georgia Tsoukalochoriti – “When writing, language and the aesthetic side of it, is my main concern”
Georgia Tsoukalochoriti was born in Athens in 1994 and grew up in Athens and Vatera, Lesvos. She...
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Book of the Month: “The Greek Revolution of 1821 and its Global Significance” by Roderick Beaton
It has been called the ‘age of revolution’. The white heat of it came in the decades either side...
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Vaso Katraki and her “Hurtful Bodies”
Vaso Katraki (1914 – 1988) was a prominent Greek engraver, renowned for her unique visual language and bold reflection on human condition. In her art, the human body acquires a distinct symbolic, ideological and political quality, becoming a bearer of collective memory and trauma. Her monumental, ...
Reading Greece: A New Era for the City of Athens Library
The City of Athens Library, one of the most important and historic libraries of the country, reopened its doors to the citizens on 11 February 2025. The Library has been radically modernized, while some 25,000 books of all categories are now freely accessible to the public. On this occasion, Reading...
Ancient Voices on Lead: the Tablets of the Dodona Oracle and the Timeless Search for Answers to Human Concerns
The Executive Board of UNESCO, on April 14th, unanimously decided to approve the designation of February 9th as “World Greek Language Day”. The date marks the anniversary of the death of Greece’s national poet, Dionysios Solomos, who passed away in 1857. The official proclamation will take pla...