Yiannis Ritsos
Greece
The Greek Haunted Building on Mount Parnitha
There is no doubt that an abandoned building on the top of a mountain can provide the ideal setting for a thriller movie. The former Athenian sanatorium on Mount Parnitha emerges like a ghost through the scorched grounds which...
Greece
Award-Winning Greek Poetry Added to Anti-Austerity Arsenal
"If you cannot find springtime, you invent it." Silent until now, Greece's poets on Wednesday added their voice to protests against austerity measures imposed on the country in return for EU-IMF loans.
Some 1,000 self-styled "children of Homer", the epic...