On the west coast of Corfu is an 18 hole, par 72 golf course, open through November. Beautifully landscaped, with treelined fairways (and sandtraps) the course is attracting more and more international sportsmen… and golfing ornithologists.
The III International Congress on Thera and the Aegean World reopened the debate on just when Thera’s volcano erupted, how long the event lasted, and what the ramifications were for the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean.
In mythology captured by Heracles, this southwestern site was fortified by the Akarnanians in the sixth century B.C. and later by Philip V of Macedon, whose architectural additions form the ‘three hearts’ of the castle. West German and Athenian archaeologists begin excavating this fall.
Pythagoras believed it ‘interference with the divine rhythm’ and, up until the 1960s, even an ‘attempt’ was considered a crime in Europe. From classical times, suicide has been a thorny moral and philosophical dilemma.
One of the most intriguing archaeological researches in progress today concerns the nature and purpose of some mysterious buildings that are found in Southern Euboea.
The death by drowning of Kevin Andrews on 1 September at the age of 65, off the island of Kythira, is a great loss to English letters and to the Greek world.
From Byzantine times to the present, the printed scarf has wound together a rich fabric of legend, custom and dance.
Two important exhibitions are currently being held in Athens. One is a comprehensive collection of Greek art devoted to ancient athletic contests. The second focuses on the revival of the Olympic ideal in 19th century Greece, culminating in the Olympic Games of 1896.
A 17th century Cretan girl, seized by Turkish slavers, was dispatched to Constantinople and became the mother of two sultans.
Started, it is thought, by spilled cooking oil, the Salonica Fire of 1917 destroyed more than 9500 buildings, with damages estimated at£ 80,000,000. The British Salonica Force took on the tasks of fighting the flames and evacuating and sheltering some 77,000 refugees- a testament to Anglo-Hellenic friendship.
