Greek Reporter

Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
Greek Reporter

The Ionian Academy: The Short But Glorious Life of Greece’s First Modern University

Ionian Academy, the first university in Greece, founded by the eccentric British aristocrat Frederick North (Guilford), ...
The Atlantic

Ancient and Modern Greek

THE progress of civilization may be compared to the ancient torch-race. The nations have succeeded one another like the runners. As one sinks exhausted, another grasps the torch and carries it forward ...
Paste

Translating Ancient Greek: How One Man Launched a Modern Greek Wine Revolution While ...

Greece has always had a complex relationship with time. Ancient history and modernity in most places make for uneasy bedfellows. In Greece? They’re inseparable. Ancient Greece essentially pioneered ...
The Atlantic

The Modern Greeks: An Interpretation of National Characteristics

WHO are the modern Greeks? What is their origin? How did their national character come to be formed? Greeks today speak a language which, though not the ancient Attic tongue, is nevertheless, in a ...
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Modern Greek Politics

Join us for this event that will introduce the new volume The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics, edited by Kevin Featherstone and Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos. This ground-breaking volume provides a ...