Greece
Ancient Greece
Plato’s Academy: The World’s First University
Τhe Platonic Academy was founded by Plato himself in 428/427 BC in Athens, and is considered to be the world's first university.
Greece
New Mayor of Athens Kostas Bakoyannis Sworn in at Plato's Academy
The mayor-elect of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, was sworn into office on Sunday evening at Plato's Academy in Athens.
The new mayor of the Greek capital decided to hold the official ceremony in this open space as an important symbolic gesture.
He chose the...
Ancient Greece
The Platonic Academy of Athens: The World’s First University
Τhe Platonic Academy was founded by Plato himself in 428/427 BC in Athens, and is considered to be the world's first university.
Education
Philosophy Revived at Plato's Academy
Philosophers from around the world gathered at the place where their practice really had its roots - Plato's Academy - in an Athens neighborhood as part of a series of events for the 23d World Philosophy Congress which is...
Education
University of West Attica Unveils Post-Pandemic Goals And Challenges in Higher Education
The newly established University of West Attica (UNIWA), headquartered near the iconic archaeological site of Plato's Academy in Athens, is setting early post-pandemic goals with an emphasis on extroversy, research and innovation as it plans to attract more students...
Greece
Greek Tourism Hotting Up over Thermal Springs
Greeks have been enjoying thermal springs since ancient times. Philosophers would praise their qualities in helping improve a person's state of wellness, especially when combined with the Mediterranean food and the mild local weather.
There are thermal and mineral therapeutic...
Culture
BFI Lists the 10 Best Greek Movies [see trailers]
Christina Newland submitted her listing of 10 great Greek films on the British Film Institute's (BFI) site. She points to the Greek movie industry's struggle after its golden age in the Fifties and Sixties despite wartime chaos and dictatorial...
Greece
The Wise Side of Greece — Aristotle's Trail
Aristotle is one of the most famous Greek philosophers and scientists. He was born in Northern Greece in a town called Stagira, in 384 BC. When he was young he traveled to Athens where he studied at Plato's Academy...
Greece
World Congress of Philosophy Opens in Athens
The 23rd World Congress of Philosophy opened in Athens on Sunday evening with a concert held at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus at the foot of the Acropolis hill.
Greek organizers warmly welcomed thinkers from across the world to the...
Greece
World's Philosophers Convene in Athens
Leading intellectuals of the world, such as Juergen Habermas and Umberto Eco, Alexander Nehamas, Bill Macbride, the Dermot Moran, Luca Scarantino will take part in the 23rd World Philosophy Conference, to be held for the first time in Greece...
Culture
Diaspora MP's In Aristotle's, Alexander's Sandals
Deputies and senators of Greek descent from the USA, Australia, Canada and Sweden will participate in the Cultural Walk in the Footsteps of Aristotle and Alexander the Great, organized for them by the Interdisciplinary Center for Aristotle Studies (DIKAM)...
Greece
Plato's Tree Safe, Replacement Cut Down
Greece's General Directorate of Antiquities said a tree believed cut down for firewood on the ancient site of Plato's Academy was not the same one under which he sat, but a replacement that was put there 36 years ago...
Greece
Plato's Tree Cut Down For Firewood
Greeks, desperate to find fuel to stay warm because they can't afford heating oil that has been ghit with big tax increases, have been taking to the woods and even city parks to cut down trees and now authorities...
Greece
Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Archimedes Top MIT list
Four ancient Greek philosophers rank among a list from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of people who have most influenced the planet.
They may have lived before almost 2,500 years ago, but Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes and Socrates are still the...
Culture
The Greatest Byzantine Greek Scholars of the Renaissance
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...