In Place of Other Gifts: The Disowned Talents of Patrick White
The Nobel Prize novelist who died last month at one time felt Greece to be a second home, but grew disenchanted by what he saw as the betrayal of its rural life.
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When the Lights Went Out on Leonard Bernstein
The whole community was buzzing with the news. Leonard Bernstein was bringing the New York Philharmonic to Thessaloniki.
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
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 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.
Mount Olympus: Ascending to the Throne of Zeus
The former dwelling of the Gods is now considered one of the best non-mountaineering mountains to be found, and September is the best month in the year to climb it.
In the Central Pindus
Even today, trekking along ‘the backbone of Greece’ recalls a time when the true spirit of Romiosyne lived in the mountains
