In addition to designated National holidays, various public holidays are observed in local communities or municipalities. Greek law mandates that every Sunday throughout the year is designated as a ...

Olympos Beydagları National Park in Turkey is home to the legendary burning mountain of Yanartaş, historic ruins and ...

Named after Xenophon Kyriakou, the father of Athenian’s late founder Minos Kyriakou, the Captain X Kyriakou was the last ...

That owls are familiar Harry Potter icons is just the latest incarnation of a human fascination with owls that predates ...

Songs that are timeless gems by important Greek composers will be performed by Eleonora Zouganeli on November 4 at the Pallas Theater. Titled In Other Paths, this music performance builds on the ...

Poseidon was the brother of Zeus and Hades, and one of the primary deities in the Olympian pantheon. He had a place with the other gods atop Mt. Olympus, but he mainly stayed within his domain in the ...

In the last decade, you have no doubt seen the explosion of yogurt options available at the grocery store. While many of the traditional options of years past are still available, Greek yogurt has ...

An unforgettable ten-day celebration dedicated to Mimis Plessas culminated in a successful musical-theatrical show featuring ...

The Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts was reimagined in the 1969 movie “Medea.” Credit: Ennio Guarnieri/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain The timeless stories portrayed in Greek mythology have been ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...