Opinion
Life –
Ancient Greeks and Romans got a surprising number of things right about the spread of disease
From packed train carriages to busy shopping centres, being crammed together in often poorly ventilated spaces had become so normal that it has taken us a long time to get …
Sport –
It’s time to recognise the 1906 Athens Games as official Olympics
Tokyo 2020 was meant to be the fourth time I attended an Olympic Games. Japan and the Games would have been my chance to see my godson, koumbaro and their …
An atheist at Greek Easter
My beliefs are inconsistent with my actions, I do not believe in god, yet I participate in Greek Easter Πάσχα. I attend the ecclesia – the body of citizens – …
An Easter message from Greece
Dear compatriots, I am very happy because the great feast of Orthodoxy, Easter, gives me the opportunity to contact you once again, the Greeks who live and work abroad, and …
Prostate pangs and tales of Greek men bonding
Did you hear the one about the 87-year-old Greek man who went to hospital emergency for anaemia and came out with a catheter? Did you hear the bit about how …
Intra Muros: The modern murals of our Greek heritage
Very little survives by way of ancient Greek murals. While many are described by the ancient traveller Pausanias, and while the art of the mural as pertains to Greece is …
Dialogue –
OPINION: Push for women’s sports in the media helps encourage young girls to play
Over the last 50 years the gap between the number of men and women playing sports has steadily decreased, but what happens now when we want it to go at …
Greek studies continue at La Trobe University for now, but a review will take place in March 2023
As most readers of Neos Kosmos are aware, the deliberations during November and December 2020 led to La Trobe University’s decision to continue its Greek Studies program. A review will …
On 21 April, 1967, the tanks rolled into Athens and the colonels took charge of Greece
It was 54 years ago today that a group of far-right Greek army colonels led a coup d’etat just weeks before elections that were predicted to give the victory to …
Athens defies curfews: conjuring the days of Papathemelis during the global pandemic
In February 1994, Greece’s former public order minister Stelios Papathemelis imposed a 2am curfew on the operating of bars and nightclubs. The goal was to limit noise pollution, but the …