On October 7, I was having dinner with my Jewish neighbours. As dessert was being served texts started arriving from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Tahlia, our host, told us that …

Preamble: Konstantinos Gkioulekas, lawyer, journalist and New Democracy MP, and author of the Greek language book; The Chronicle of the Revolution Through the Newspapers of the Revolution, sent a letter …

David Beckham’s most endearing feature is his profound gratitude. In the recent Netflix documentary Beckham (2023), we see his gratitude towards his father, Ted’s dedication, his wife Victoria Adams’s forbearance, …

Many of you know me for my short articles on Bronze Age Greece (ca 3000-1200 BCE Minoans and Mycenaeans). What many of you may not know is that I’m also …

Isidoros, known to the general populace as Izzy, is a Neo-Byzantine. What this means is that even though the last vestiges of Byzantine power fell in the fifteenth century, they …

The end of a terrible year is around the corner. We need a respite to replenish reserves before 2024 and I am making a concerted effort not to monitor international …

Every year, politicians come to the Lonsdale Festival and acknowledge the pioneering role of Greek Australians in transforming Australian culture. There would be no Australian multiculturalism without the Jews and …

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, …