Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zante. He is best known for having written the Imnos eis tin Eleftherían ("Hymn to Freedom"), ...

The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

What’s up, Kreon?” isn’t something you’d hear in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy “Antigone,” written in 440 B.C. But in Anne ...

Director Paulo Sorrentino won an Oscar for "The Great Beauty" but seems to have gotten lost — not unpleasurably — in the sex ...

Members of Spanish and Danish royal families have gathered in Athens for the wedding of Nikolaos, son of Greece’s late former ...

The Romanian government has long sought dozens of valuable paintings that it says the country’s last king took into exile in ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

He shaped Catholic doctrine for centuries, arguing for faith based on reason and science, and offering five logical 'proofs' ...

Sir Stephen Fry, the distinguished British actor, writer, director, and well-known Philhellene, recently spoke at the ...