Greek Reporter

The Ionian Academy: The Short But Glorious Life of Greece’s First Modern University

Ionian Academy, the first university in Greece, founded by the eccentric British aristocrat Frederick North (Guilford), ...
Paste

Translating Ancient Greek: How One Man Launched a Modern Greek Wine Revolution While Holding Onto the Past

Greece has always had a complex relationship with time. Ancient history and modernity in most places make for uneasy bedfellows. In Greece? They’re inseparable. Ancient Greece essentially pioneered ...
Greek Reporter

The First Modern Olympic Games in Athens

On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...
The New York Times

Edmund Keeley Dies at 94; Shined a Light on Modern Greek Culture

The pre-eminent translator of poets like C.P. Cavafy and George Seferis, he was also a well-regarded novelist and poet in his own right. By Clay Risen Edmund Keeley, who as a novelist, translator, ...
Time

Art: Modern Greek

When he was a 13-year-old schoolboy, a tousled Greek youngster named Nicolas Hadgikyriaco saw his first “modern” painting—a tortured Matisse street scene—in a Paris gallery. “I was terribly shocked,” ...
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Modern Greek Politics

Join us for this event that will introduce the new volume The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics, edited by Kevin Featherstone and Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos. This ground-breaking volume provides a ...