Just 20 years ago this month definitive British excavations began, but scholars are still divided on identifying the Menelaion site as the Spartan palace connected with Helen of Troy. It does appear likely, however, that she and Menelaos were buried there.
Takis and Makis, the two young burglars, car thieves, muggers, arsonists and reform school graduates were sprawled on a ramshackle settee in the small apartment they shared in Pangrati, idly watching the news on TV.
Statements made by President Karamanlis are usually referred to as ‘cryptic’. Given the large powers which Andreas Papandreou stripped from the presidency in 1985, it’s a wonder he can be deciphered at all. But being simply himself, the Ethnarch, his few but potent words are carefully recorded, spread around and mulled over.
Alexander the Great was the first to envision a union of East and West. For
The Old Castle, built by the Crusaders, is more imposing, but the new Castle is more fun, and soon it’s to become an important Marine Antiquities Museum
The veteran politician dipped a rusk into his breakfast coffee and leaned forward to keep it from dripping on to his shirt front as he slurped off the soggy part. He looked pensively at his 40-year-old son who was waiting patiently for a reply to his request for a loan.
Controversy over the Greekness of Macedonia from ancient politicians to Victorian scholars mainly sprang from a bias for or against kings. Yet its particular and characteristic institution of kingship was Macedonia’s principal contribution to history.
A year after the death of the Mayor of Athens, Cultural Minister Dora Bakoyianni is making the Tritsis Plan for a city-wide park a reality.
Once seen as Moscow’s most loyal satellite state, Bulgaria today is a struggling democracy wrestling with the staple problems of a struggling economy and the development of democratic institutions. A visit last month by The Athenian’s diplomatic correspondent reveals neither a bastion of anti-Geek feelings nor a hotbed of pro-Turkish Moslem fundamentalism, as often suspected in Athens. In fact, quite the contrary…
Every so often the Issue of the King breaks out into Greek political life. Like malaria, it’s a latent condition which is most likely to recur when the body politic gets run down from something else, thus becoming susceptible to otherwise dormant forces.
