In the first century of this common era, (CE or AD) Pliny the Elder began his encyclopaedic account of Natural History by noting that there were two ways to madness. …

Had Greece not been liberated, we may have been speaking today of the Mehmed Marbles, rather than the “Elgin” Marbles, a colonialist-imperialist term whose use by our national broadcaster, has …

Asia Minor was such an important battle ground in the history of the world, that many a king made a name for themselves on the battlefields in the region. Greek, …

The prime minister sat at his desk, rubbing his temples. He had a throbbing headache. It was just after 11pm. He willed himself to pick up the following briefing on …

Finishing high school felt like such a relief. I could not wait for liberation from uniforms and the cloistered classrooms built around the design of a Union Jack. Little did …

As Greek Australians know, owning your own home is the core of the great Australian dream. Hundreds of thousands of Greeks left the ashes of a war-torn Greece to settle …

I first learned of the Greeks of Zgorzelec in Poland (formerly the German imperial city of Görlitz) from Preston-based Faye Mangos, who describes in her autobiography “A Cry of the …

The instant my daughter Maya was born time stopped and the world split in half. Everything was recast by cosmic division of before and after. The death of my father …

“Not so much peeved as content,” I responded. “This is my zen face.” Buddhist manuscripts in cursive Greek, dated later than the second century AD, have been recently found in …

Not so long ago, while presenting the Epirus Programme on community radio, I happened to make mention of the passing of Isaac Mizan, who was the last Auschwitz survivor of …