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Billy rediscovers Warsaw, through Greek links, and modern life
Years ago, I became friends with Dorota, a Pole who had lived in New York for over a decade before returning to her native Poland. We kept in touch, and …
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‘The great mass of waters killed many thousands’: how earthquakes and tsunamis shook ancient Greece and Rome
The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked the quake not to destroy his house: Earthquake, most …
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Kalamata Music Days 2025: Where ancient ruins meet radical soundscapes
Kalamata Music Days 2025: A Festival Bridging Centuries of SoundFrom medieval chants to experimental jazz, the International Kalamata Music Days returns for its ninth edition from August 24 to September …
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Greek-made sculpture honours the migration stories of Melbourne’s Hellenes
Greek sculptor Dimosthenis Tzanakos has gone above and beyond to use his talents to create a piece honouring the legacy of the many Greeks who made the difficult journey to …
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Nikos Papastergiadis wins 2025 Michael Crouch Award for debut biography
Nikos Papastergiadis’s literary non-fiction work John Berger and Me has won the 2025 Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work in the National Biography Awards. The winner was announced on …
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Greece declares Mikis Theodorakis’ childhood home a cultural monument
The Greek government has officially recognised the childhood home of legendary composer Mikis Theodorakis in Galatas, Hania, Crete, as a modern monument, the Culture Ministry announced on Tuesday. The 19th-century …
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Why locals and tourists keep dancing in circles in Ikaria
It’s midnight in the Aegean Sea but on the Greek island of Ikaria, in the courtyard of the church of St Elijah, the revelry was barely getting started. Dozens of …
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Australia called to lift on global health as US yields
Australia must come to the party with more money to combat climate-related health issues, antimicrobial resistance and future pandemics. That’s the bottom line of research that indicates the well-off nation …
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Low Season Traveller: Andros “Queen of the Aegean”
“There is a calm magic to the Greek islands without the onslaught of mass tourists, which makes them unbeatable. We found it in Andros,” says Low Season Traveller in the …
Building bridges: Greek Australian youth to reconnect with ancestral homeland in 2025 Athens tour
The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) has announced another Greek Australian students’ tour to Athens for September 2025. The tour focuses on civics, education and culture and aims to augment …