“Let’s forget about Alexander the Great, for a while,” my Bitolan interlocutor exclaimed in exasperation. For the past hour, he had been trying, via various spurious means to ‘prove’ to …

In the 90s, which is the time that most Greek-Melburnians became aware of the ‘Macedonian’ issue, the natural inclination of the community was to express its solidarity with the Greek …

The illustration accompanying this article has been supplied by my five-year-old daughter, drawn two days after she attended the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria (GOCMV) Creative Drama and …

Though the omens were there for those who could read them, it was an article in what is now the oldest newspaper of northern Greece, Macedonia, that provided the spark …

“Do you know why we Greeks are so successful?” the bright-eyed, animated lady with the most luminous teeth asked me as she adjusted her necklace, upon which was strung a …

For approximately 135 years, Crete, an island that is, in the Greek popular consciousness, inextricably linked to the foundations of civilisation and Greece itself, was one of the major foes …

Superficially, at least, Constantine Cavafy’s enigmatic last poem, completed just days before his death in 1933, On the Outskirts of Antioch, focuses upon an episode in the life of the …

Some years ago, I was re-reading Stratis Myrivilis’ classic anti-war novel Η ζωή εν τάφω (Life in the Tomb), a harrowing account of life in the trenches of the Macedonian …

I don’t know about you, but I am incensed but not unduly astonished at the poor reception afforded by Europeans to Greece’s worthy contribution to the Eurovision song contest. In …

Most nights I read to my daughters from a rather tattered and worse for wear storybook by Georgia Tarsouli, entitled Στης Μαμάς την Αγκαλιά. It has been in my custody …