March 21, 1821 marks an important moment in modern Greek history as 200 Greek rebels…
Greek Culture
Contemporary Greek culture and traditions are very rich and diverse, reflecting Greece’s location at the crossing point where the West meets the East and the country’s great and turbulent history.
Archaeologists analyzing a shipwreck stumbled upon by divers in the summer of 2022 are connecting…
The concept of ‘unity’, in a secular or religious context, has been pursued by…
AIOLOS (Aeolus) was the divine keeper of the winds and king of the mythical, floating island of Aiolia (Aeolia). He kept the violent Storm-Winds locked safely away inside the cavernous interior of his isle, releasing them only at the command of greatest gods to wreak devastation upon the world.
Greek singer Evangelia was in Australia to perform in Sydney and Melbourne. This was of…
A small group of brave Greek Revolutionaries, led by Vasos Mavrovouniotis, attempted on March 18,…
Eleftherios Venizelos (Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος) has been named the most prominent politician in Greece’s modern…
The 159 students of the Kestekidion Greek, the purely Greek school in Brussels, which has…
“[The] Greek Community and the Greek school preserve and pass on this enormous proud tradition…
Walking into the clinic, PhysioFirst Sylvania, it’s easy to see why at just 39 years of age Con Pavildis has been deemed one of the top physios in Sydney, Australia.
Athens’ Mayor, Kostas Bakoyannis, has received one of five awards at the inaugural “Partnership for Healthy Cities” Summit ( PHC), for Athens efforts in the prevention of overdose in drug users and for in its inroads in making drug overdose antidote naloxone more readily available. “Naloxone can make the difference between life and death…this means that a mother who has naloxone at home can administer it and save her child,” he says.
Stilvi Psilopoulou is a distinguished actress who, for almost a decade, has worked alongside some of the very best Greek actors like Elisavet Konstantinidou, Ilias Logothetis, Alexandros Stavrou, Katerina Didaskalou, Nikitas Tsakiroglou and with the most prominent Greek directors such as Dimitris Arvanitis, Yorgos Oikonomidis, Panos Aggelopoulos and more. Greek City Times speaks to her to learn more about her life and achievements thus far.
In August 2022, the municipality of Athens, Greece, announced an architectural competition for a new archeological museum and…
Mimis Papaioannou breathed his last today at the age of 80. He had been suffering…
A Cretan from Chania waited a year and a half to receive a package that…
Archaeologists have uncovered three bronze swords from the Mycenaean civilisation during excavations of a 12th…
Aristotle Socrates Onassis was born on the 20th of January 1906 and passed away on…
The director of a London-based auction house was arrested in New York City in January…
World Pi Day 2023 is celebrated today, March 14, 2023, all across the globe. Pi Day was first…
This stadium was the site of the first Olympic Games in 1896, and it’s no…