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Τhe Platonic Academy was founded by Plato himself in 428/427 BC in Athens, and is considered to be the world's first university.

Mordechai Frizis (Μαρδοχαίος Φριζής), who fought in the Crimea and in the doomed Asia Minor campaign as well as the two World Wars, was the first senior officer in the Greek Army to fall on the battlefield during the...

The Twelve Labours of Hercules occupy a special place in the pantheon of Greek mythology, exemplifying the ancient beliefs of the Greeks.

As we count down the top five crazy Greek gods, many will wish to know who the absolute craziest is. But what should the criteria for crazy be exactly? This is difficult to say. Calling people crazy is sometimes insulting....

Photographer François-Frédéric Boissonnas took some of the most beautiful images ever captured of Greece during his travels throughout the country. By Eugenia Russell This October is the 76th anniversary of the death of the great Swiss landscape photographer François-Frédéric Boissonnas (June...

Greece's Panathinaikos basketball team issued a statement on Wednesday afternoon informing the public that it is suspending its participation in Greece's basketball championship "Basket League", in its words ''until legality prevails again.'' Panathinaikos was set to play against the team of Kymi on...

  The schedule for the 2019 version of the spectacular annual arts festival taking place in Athens and Epidaurus, Greece was announced on Tuesday. The festival this year will include musical, theatrical and many other cultural events and will take place...

Τhe Platonic Academy was founded by Plato himself in 428/427 BC in Athens, and is considered to be the world's first university.

The "Pyrforos II" electric car designed and made by students of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is ready to hit the roads. This is the second research project of the "Prometheus Team NTUA", a group of inventive young...

Greece’s electric motor engineering talent has lured Elon Musk’s Tesla, the U.S. giant specializing in electric cars, energy storage and solar panel manufacturing to set up a R&D center in Athens. “Greece has strong electric motor engineering talent and technical...

Since the beginning of time, people have turned their eyes to the sky and discerned the shapes of animals and objects in the stars.

According to sputniknews.com, Athens has put a proposal on the table for Russia's Gazprom to consider making a considerable investment of 800 million euros in Greece's coal industry. On Tuesday, reports from the Russian newspaper, Kommersant say that the Vevi...

While speaking at the Russian-Greek business forum in Thessaloniki Saturday, Russian's Energy Minister Alexander Novak stated that Russia's Gazprom is negotiating projects that may begin in Greece via affiliated companies, including coal mining. Gazprom's presence is already felt in Greece...

Master musician, conductor and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, with his son Dimitri Ashkenazy on solo clarinet, returns to the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on August 1. Vladimir Ashkenazy will conduct the Athens State Orchestra as it performs a rich classical...

INO is a Greek street artist who has created the most impressive and artful murals in Athens. Recently, he was invited to Cyprus to make a mural for the country's parliament in Nicosia. His works can be found in several...