Browsing: greek culture

Excerpt from the novel, Labyrinthine Ways By Aurelia “I know that the incident is known as the Kandanoleon Wedding,” Manolis…

Hotel Hagiati offers the ambiance to experience Edessa’s present within its past. Occupying a historic stone merchant’s house a short…

Considered the “navel of the world” to ancient Greeks, Delphi was more important than Mount Olympus. Delphi was their Vatican.…

By: Catherine Tsounis, contributing editor Faith in their Russian Orthodox faith is giving strength to the Russian middle class, the…

By: Chris Pappis                                   …

“Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.”        ― Gerald Durrell on Corfu,…

By Aphrodite Kotrotsios, Publisher This years’ Epiphany celebration in Tarpon Springs will go down in history. For the first…

The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA), a membership-based fraternal organization of Hellenes and Philhellenes, celebrates the selection…

By Chris Pappis                                  …

“They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” What food did they have? A…

Thessaloniki: breads, dried fruits, pomegranate syrup, cumin, sesame seeds, artichokes, wine, a cornucopia of smoked and cured meats and fish…

What forces make a legendary region a tourist attraction? Conflict and nature are two factors. Pella was Alexander the Great’s…

F – εὖ is a descriptor for all that’s good and creative in a person’s life – one that Dionysus,…

Angela de Merici, founder of the Ursulines, believed that educated young women could make great contributions to society. The year…

“Hail, goddess, and nurse peace, that he who sows may also reap.”  (Callimachus, poet, 3rd century BCE) The Temple to…