“The slightest object from the Acropolis is a jewel.” Lord Elgin “but molest not yon defenceless urn: Look on this spot – a nation’s sepulchre.” Lord Byron Lord Byron famously …

I grew up among people who were never able to return to their homes. They spent their entire lives pining for their wives and children, wondering about the state of …

“Here have some of this,” my grandmother dipped two the forks in the salad bowl and offered it to my Australian friend. “What is it?” his eyes grew wide in …

“I woke up with this marble head in my hands; It exhausts my embows and I do not know Where to put it down.” Giorgos Seferis. ‘Trilogy of a Desert …

When I was growing up in the eighties, only criminals or ultra-cool denizens of the margins of society who could transcend boundaries, possessed tattoos. As my parents determined at a …

“Ali deemed anchorite, or saint a pawn – The crater of his blunderbuss did yawn, Sword, dagger hung at ease…. … for Janina makes A grave for thee where every …

“You see this pile of bricks?” The old lady gestures around the room. Her living room is decorated in a mishmash of styles, reflecting trends from the fifties to the …

For a people that have been around for a considerable length of time, it is astounding that we still struggle to define ourselves. When coupled with an antipodean hypostasis that …

Approximately 300,000 Armenian and 25,000 Assyrian subjects of the Ottoman Empire were killed during the Hamidian massacres of 1895. It is estimated that 100,000 “Greeks” were also killed, although this …

I lament the absence of artful nonsense words in the modern Greek language, especially since such words have been with us since times ancient. Yet to φλυαρεῖν, ληρεῖν, φληναφεῖν or …