Dialogue
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 …
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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 …
A digger’s tale from Newport and Brunswick to Lemnos – The Anzac Voyage of Alec Holland
Alec Holland was sent as a reinforcement to a unit in which experienced tradesmen like himself were especially valued. An engineering support unit, the 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train …
What ancient Greek handwashing can teach us about socio-economic inequality
COVID-19 poses massive challenges nationally and globally when it comes to socio-economic inequality. It has hit the vaccine rollout especially hard, threatening new and potentially more lethal variants, while low-risk …
Children of the Revolution: The lost childhoods of 1821
Yiannis Gounaris is, at least in the popular consciousness, an obscure figure of the Greek Revolution of 1821. Hailing from Ioannina, he was employed by Omer Vryoni as his official …