Edmund Keeley writes that when it came time to render Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy’s work into English, the poem “Parthen,” (meaning taken, or conquered), had to be excluded because its …

A very long time ago, a boy named Asterius was born an innocent into the world, as we all are. Unbeknownst to the boy, he was born amidst a curse, …

Xena the warrior princess, played by Lucy Lawless, captivated audiences around the world for six series with her high kicks, sword skills and distinctive war cry. The series followed her …

One good thing about lockdowns is it gives you a chance to do some reading. Recently I rediscovered a book written by humanist philosopher, Herbert Marcuse, more than half a …

At a time when Greek language learning is facing critical struggles in the Antipodes, news that Manos Tzimbragos, the highly respected Education Officer and Principal of the Greek Community of …

As a scholar of ancient Greek poetry, I find myself reflecting on two of the most powerful paternal moments in Greek literature. At the end of Homer’s classic poem, “The …

Say it ain’t so… Joe! It was 1919 and the world had just witnessed the bloodiest war of all time – WWI, which resulted in 40 million casualties and the …

How can you feel nostalgia for a place you have never lived in? A neologism, in the Greek language, the word was first coined as a medical term in 1688 …

Thousands of people of Greek background around the world wish to obtain the Greek passport. Is that good or bad? One would think that for a country like Greece, with …

It would not be an exaggeration to say that, in the last fifteen years, Greece has experienced the largest wave of emigration in its history since the 1950s. There were …