“Greek Art Now” online platform showcases modern Greece’s cultural wealth
Greek Art Now is a project on the Google Arts & Culture platform, aiming to digitize selected...
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Category: Modern Greece Unfolds
Mikis Theodorakis: A Cinematic Musical Legacy
Mikis Theodorakis, a name synonymous with Greek culture and political engagement, left behind an...
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The history of the Athenian “polykatoikía”
The modern city of Athens is often perceived as a concrete jungle filled with tall apartment...
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The Battle of Crete
The Battle of Crete (also referred to as “Battle for Crete”) took place from 20 May until 1 June...
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The “Syrmata” of Milos: Adaptive Architecture and Cultural Heritage
The “syrmata” (wires) buildings on the island of Milos are traditional small, single-room...
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Remembering George Bizos: Legendary Anti-Apartheid Lawyer and Mandela Defender
George Bizos, born on 15 November 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in Greece, was a Greek-South...
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Greek Revolution in the works of foreign artists
Over two centuries have passed since the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence. In 1821, the...
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The feminist movement in Greece: a brief overview
The history of feminism in Greece begins at the end of the 19th century when some educated women...
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“Greek Art Now” online platform showcases modern Greece's cultural wealth
Greek Art Now is a project on the Google Arts & Culture platform, aiming to digitize selected artworks from the collections of seven major Greek museums, and contribute to their promotion on for a global audience. The project was realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture and is the result...
Reading Greece: Stella Teneketzi – “Literature can function as a crack in normality, a space where words escape the ‘should’ and create the ‘might’”
Stella Teneketzi was born in Thessaloniki in 1977. Her first book, the short story collection Of her profession was published in 2019 by Apopira Publications. Her second book was recently published by Electra. It is the poetry collection A minute before my funeral, a work that appeared first on the....
