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The "Romance" of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated manuscript on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the Middle Ages as it was translated into thirty languages. The original version was composed in Ancient Greek sometime...

Kostis Palamas was not only one of the major Greek poets of modern times. He was also one of the most inspiring figures of Hellenism, as pieces of his literary work were adopted as national poems of the young...

Zorba the Greek, the story of Alexis Zorbas, is one of the most memorable films in the history of the genre, and the Nikos Kazantzakis book on which it is based is one of the best works of modern...

In Constantinople, circa 500 AD, a girl was born to a poor circus worker and his wife. That child, Theodora, would become an actress, a prostitute, a mistress, a  feminist, an empress of the civilized world, and eventually, a...

A rare, handwritten gospel stolen from a Greek monastery was recently returned by its latest owner, the Museum of the Bible in Washington. The artifact is believed to be one of the oldest handwritten gospels, written in Greek sometime between...

Greece offers not only an abundance of wonderful vacation destinations but also plenty of charming, funny, and bittersweet stories captured by various authors. The authors of these five books were inspired by Greece and brought it to life in their...

A Greek Orthodox monastery, founded more than one thousand years ago is thriving just south of Rome, Italy in the epicenter of Catholicism. 

The Naxos Quartet is a compelling series of novels by author Patrick Garner about the Greek gods in the modern world. We know the Greek gods from mythology, and assume their stories ended there. According to Garner, they did not....

When Yannis Ritsos passed away on November 11, 1990, the world of poetry lost one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.

Greek-American author David Sedaris, who reflects on difficult moments in his life with honesty and humor, has become one of the most beloved contemporary American humorists. Born in 1956 to an Anglo-American mother and Greek-American father, whose parents were immigrants...