In Turkish author Elif Shafak’s 2021 novel: “The Island of Missing Trees,” the trauma of the division of two communities is highlighted through the discovery of her hybrid past by …

According to the International Olympic Committee’s homepage, the ancient Olympic Games ceased their operations in 393AD. The various neopagans that punctuate our paroikia blame Christian intolerance for this and in …

«Του Κάπι φτεύουμι τς ντμάτις», my grandmother would always say in response to my question as to why for yet another year she would not attend the extended family’s traditional …

One wintry Sunday afternoon, as we in Melbourne were enmeshed in the throes of the 2020 lockdown, my eldest daughter came to me and said: «Μπαμπά, όλο γράφεις και γράφεις …

I’ve always harboured a good deal of sympathy for Scylla, the Homeric monster that according to Virgil, inhabited a cave in the strait between Sicily and Calabria. According to Hyginus, …

My family icon of Saint George has a legend attached to it. According to tribal lore, it hung in an ancestral home and I owe more existence to it, for …

This year’s Greek Independence Day march to the Shrine of Remembrance was dedicated to the victims of the Genocide of the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire. Most of the people …

How sundry ‘Ellinarades’ are crying racism at the manner in which the Australian media chose to emphasise the actions of the unruly few.

Brace yourselves: The battle for Middle Earth begins.

Victorian educators to replace Greek taught at schools with Chinese and French.