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Inside The Sacred Greek Ritual That Sparks Every Winter Olympics Across The Globe

Just imagine a Greek actress dressed in flowing robes standing before the ruins of an ancient temple, raising a parabolic ...
The New York Times

How to Throw a Greek Summer Party

According to Maria Lemos, the founder of the Athens boutique Mouki Mou, it’s all about “philoxenia,” a love of one’s guest. By Sophie Bew When guests arrived at the Mouki Mou store in Athens at 6 p.m.
Newsday

Animal skins, bells, ritual chaos: Ancient burnout remedy is still at the heart of Greece's carnival

DISTOMO, Greece — Feeling overwhelmed by everyday obligations or doom-scrolling? The ancient Greeks had a remedy for burnout still practiced annually by their rural descendants. In the mountain ...
Greek Reporter

The Ancient Greek Tyrant Who Ruled Athens Three Times

Peisistratus was an ancient Greek statesman who ruled Athens as a tyrant but laid the foundation for the city's later ...
Time

Why the Rise of Greece’s Golden Dawn Party Is Bad for Europe

In Thermopylae, in the year 480 B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta and hundreds of Greek warriors made history by battling 300,000 invaders who made up the army of Xerxes, the Persian King of Kings. A ...