Sulla’s Devastation of Athens
Puzzled by a dream of Venus, Consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla launched an offensive on Athens, where the Pontic army of Mithridates the Great was stationed under the command of Archelaus.
Veria, a Paradise in Northern Greece
With its multitude of post-Byzantine chapels hidden in secluded courtyards, this thriving modern town has a past well worth poking into.
Ancient Eleusis
Once the centre of the sacred cult of Demeter and Persephone, Eleusis now lies uncomfortably among
factories, a sacrifice to modern gods of technology.
Hello, Out There!
A year after The Athenian’s last report on OTE, a new, more optimistic view has emerged from the overburdened telecommunication system which tries to serve the most talkative people on earth
The Retsinagones and the Coca-Colympics, or Martin Luther King, Jr, Zei
At midday on September 18, a warm clear late summer day, crowds of young people carrying flags had gathered in Syntagma and Omonia Squares. In Piraeus, ships were deck out with pennants.
65 Years and Still Growing Strong
Founded as a private school with a strong commitment to serve the country and its youth, Athens College has developed a unique character throughout the past 65 years.
The 1996 Olympics: the Bid and the Challenge
With only a few weeks to go until the final decision as to who will host the 1996 ‘Golden Olympics’, Greece is resorting to a number of political and public relations moves in an attempt to convince the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that it is best suited to stage the Games.
Post Office Blues
I was at the Psychiko post office the other day when a dapper, bossy little man was having an argument with the man in charge.
The Laying of the Net
In spite of her Elizabethan name, Stormie Seas was the last traditional schooner built in Greece by Greek hands. Employed to smuggle agents into postwar Albania, she almost met the same fate years later as the Bronze Age shipwreck her crew once discovered near Hydra.