Podariko: Why Greeks Select Who Sets Foot First in the House on New Year
The first person to enter the house in the New year is really important for the Greeks. Public Domain One of the oldest customs Greeks foll...
Vasilopita and the Lucky Coin: A Greek Custom to Welcome the New Year
Vasilopita, Greek New Year’s cake. Credit: Greek Reporter The story of the Greek Orthodox custom of the Vasilopita, or the New Year’s cake ...
93 Seconds Over Athens: How an Olympic Airways Plane Survived the Unthinkable
The Olympic Airways Plane That Almost Crashed Into Athens. Credits: YouTube screenshot The dramatic near-crash of an Olympic Airways Boeing...
Six Architectural Landmarks of Modern Athens Lost Forever
The Actaion Hotel, built in 1903 in Athens’ southern suburb of Neo Faliro, was one of the architectural landmarks that were destroyed to mak...
Did Ancient Greeks Reach America Long Before Columbus?
GreekReporter Collage of Uxmal Royal Entrance, Mexico and Ara Paxis, Rome Credit: Dennis Jarvis/Flickr and Andy Hay /Wikimedia commons CC B...
The Zappeion: A Neoclassical Landmark in Athens
The main facade of Zappeion Hall in Athens. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Public domain On October 20, 1888, Athens’ iconic Zappeion Megaron f...
Why Santa in Greece Arrives on New Year’s and Not Christmas Eve
Santa brings presents to kids in Greece on New Year’s Eve rather than on Christmas Eve. Photo of Santa with girl. Credit: vastateparksstaff...
Why Did Byzantium Preserve Pagan Texts in a Christian Empire?
Christian scholars copied, annotated, and repurposed pagan texts, sending them from Constantinople into Islamic science and the Renaissance....
Was Helen Really to Blame for the Trojan War – or Just a Scapegoat?
“Helen of Troy,” Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1799. Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons The question of Helen’s involvement in the Trojan War clearl...
Agrafa: The Switzerland of Greece
Plastiras Lake in the morning light. Photo courtesy of Ektypotiki, Karditsa The following story is a tale of philoxenia (hospitality) and b...
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