opinion
Education
The Historic Opening of Greek Universities to Competition
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Greece will open the Greek universities to competition in a historic move announced last week. Greece is the only Western country that bans private universities. Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis said: "This flagship legislation will be presented for public consultation...
Greek church
Who Wrote the Bible? Four Theories Examined
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The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and God’s Last Judgement of the living and the dead. But who wrote the Bible?
By Philip C. Almond
The Old Testament (which dates to 300...
Greek News
Darkness in the Tunnel of the Tempe Railway Disaster in Greece
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In the aftermath of the Tempe railway disaster in Greece, the affected area was covered up by the state to conceal vital evidence, with a proper investigation case in pursuit of justice losing momentum, according to the Association of Victims...
Greek News
Why It Feels Like Christmas Comes Around More Quickly Each Year
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Christmas is coming around faster the older we get. A survey of 918 adults in the UK found 77 percent of respondents agreed Christmas seems to arrive more quickly with each passing year, but why is this?
By Ruth Ogden
Think...
Crime
Killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos Still Haunts Greece
December 6th marks the anniversary of the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas in 2008, an act that stands as a landmark case of police brutality in Greece.
In more peaceful times, Greek society would mourn...
Cyprus
Kissinger Owed an Apology to Greece and Cyprus
A year before Henry Kissinger's death Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute wrote a polemic calling on him to apologize to Greece and Cyprus over his role during the Turkish invasion of 1974.
Writing in the...
Ancient Greece
‘To Divide Is to Destroy’: The Parthenon Marbles and the Integrity of Monuments
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As the Vatican Museums become the latest collection to return Parthenon marbles to Athens, the British Museum continues to give short shrift to Greece’s calls for repatriation.
By Catharine Titi
One of the most surprising claims the British Museum makes when...
Diaspora
Modern Greek Argonauts: What Is Fated Is Impossible to Escape
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The modern Greek Argonauts are the Diaspora, following the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis.
By Steve Bakalis
In antiquity, many Greeks migrated to new Hellenistic cities founded in Alexander the Great’s wake.
The...
Ancient Greece
What Witches From Ancient Greece Tell Us About Modern Witchcraft
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From ancient Greece through Puritan New England, witches functioned as easy targets for cultural anxieties about gender, power, and mortality.
By Joel Christensen
Living on the North Shore in Boston in the fall brings the gorgeous turning of the leaves and...
Greek News
How the Athens Polytechnic Uprising Ideals Lost their Glow
The Athens Polytechnic uprising anniversary on November 17 against the military dictatorship in Greece has lost its glow and it is often marred by clashes between police and extreme left groups.
In November 1973, it had been six and a...
Ancient Greece
Modern Stoics on TikTok Distort Ancient Greek, Roman Philosophers
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Modern stoics on TikTok diverge quite a bit from what the ancient philosophers of Stoicism espoused. Their ideas around happiness and productivity are not the same as modern influencers think they are.
By Matthew Duncombe
I don’t know about you, but...
Economy
Greece and Ireland: Two Divergent Modernization Paths
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In less than four decades, Ireland, unlike Greece, has gone from one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest. On the contrary, Greece not only went bankrupt but was left behind, far behind.
By George K....
History
Ottoman Empire: Five Things You Need to Know
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For centuries, empires were the dominant form of political organization. In the West, there is some degree of familiarity with the British, French, and German empires as well as the empires of Spain and Portugal. Of course, there are...
Greek News
The Haunting 100-year Parallel Between Greeks and Armenians
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2023 marks the centennial of the Treaty of Lausanne, which efficiently ended the last traces of Greeks in Asia Minor and the Armenians in Artsakh.
By Julian McBride
2023 marks the centennial of the Treaty of Lausanne, which efficiently ended the...
Greek News
Athens Defies Male-Dominated Politics in Greece
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Athens has defied male-dominated politics in Greece by electing 15 female councilors out of a total of 26 in the recent municipal elections. Time will tell if modern Athens by “Embracing of the Feminine Power of Athena’s Wisdom” will...