“I don’t want to exist. I want to live!” Emmanuel Dakis, the tailor of Chapel street, once said in an interview to Aron Lewin. This phrase sums up how the …

Sitting one story above Elizabeth Street’s bustling commercial strip, Ithaca House has since 1958 been the club rooms of the Ithacan Philanthropic Society. Established in 1916 as a community organisation …

As a lover of classical civilisation, who read and studied classical drama both at secondary school and Monash University in Melbourne, a trip to Greece in summer would not be …

My last summertime memories in Greece date back to 2019, just before the ‘C’ word hit. I was one of the lucky ones who got a taste of Greek summer …

Argos is one of the oldest cities in mainland Europe but also a modern city with attractions and places that interest every visitor. The reason for this brief reference to …

“I want them to go on the journey with me and hopefully connect with them on a personal level,” says Zoy Frangos, the singer and actor who has performed across …

In the summer of July 1974, Turkey invaded Cyprus. My grandfather Panayiotis Harpas was aged 35 and my grandmother Ellatha Harpas was only 29 years old. That summer would changed …

“Who do you want to speak to, Mary, or Effie?” asks actor and comedian, Mary Coustas over the phone. Effie (Stephanidis), Coustas’ alter ego is fixed in the Australian psyche, …

Boris Johnson was once such a fervent supporter of the Parthenon Marbles being returned to Athens that he wrote to the Greek culture minister to denounce the British government for …

Pamela Gonos the family history enthusiast now understands why it took her grandfather twenty five years to bring his son to Australia from Greece. Gonos knew nothing about her grandfather, …