Greece

A spectacle, inspired by the art of Chinese culture running through a remarkable history of thousands of years, was presented for the first time in Greece in November. The "Millennium Meeting" was staged in Pallas Theater in Athens in the...

A troupe of Shaolin monks is bringing traditional Chinese kung fu to Greece, exhibiting their amazing skills in a series of performances in Athens. They are touring as part of an act called Shaolin: The Legend, and are in Greece as...

A young Greek teenager stole the limelight at the Greek version of The Voice; the reality television singing competition, on Wednesday evening. The judges and the audience listened in awe to the performance of 16-year-old Athanasia Papanastopoulou, from Andravida, Peloponnese. Despite...

The Greek model Georgia Kaltsi stunned the audience of Athens Exclusive Designers Week on Saturday by wheeling down the catwalk. The 25-year old woman, from Greece's Nafpaktos, was wearing a red dress and participated in the show, sparking waves of...

Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the Italian Peninsula, where their work would play an important role in the flowering of the Renaissance. The Renaissance, which...

Hypatia, one of the greatest philosophers of Alexandria, was admired for her groundbreaking ideas but was brutally murdered for them by Christian fanatics in the fourth century AD. Born around the year 360, Hypatia was a female Greek philosopher, astronomer...

"Nick the Greek" will forever be remembered as one of the most famous legends of gambling in the United States.

Influential Greek women have played a crucial role in Greece's history since antiquity -- read on to learn about ten women who shaped Greece today.

Many ancient Greek statues depict male figures with what we might consider today to be small penises. This is quite intentional and reflects the different cultural values of the period. A woman's explanation of why ancient Greek statues have small...

Many Greeks recall the speeches in English — peppered with Greek-origin words and phrases — given by economist and politician Xenophon Zolotas in the late 1950s. Zolotas was director of the Bank of Greece when he appeared in front of...

Influential singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen was continuously inspired by the Greek island of Hydra throughout his long career.

Sofia Vembo – The famous Greek singer of the 20th century, became synonymous with the epic Greek victories against the fascist Italian troops in 1940 and 1941 during the Greco-Italian war along the Albanian front. Born in Gallipoli in Asia...

Herodotus (or Ἡρόδοτος), born in Halicarnassus in 484 BC, was one of the most brilliant Greek thinkers of all time and is known worldwide as "The Father of History." He took it upon himself to record the history of the...

Karagiozis is the main character of Greek shadow puppet theater shows, and has been a constant for generations of children in Greece. 

Born on the island of Kos, c. 460 BC, the Greek physician Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine.