FILE - This April 6, 1896, file photo is a general view of the audience at the opening of the first modern Summer Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece. From that modest start in Athens with 241 ...

In the Greek capital, ancient history is everywhere you look. But these days, the city is also home to boundary-pushing art. A passerby might have mistaken it for a wedding feast. In Metaxourgio, a ...

OF ALL, Europeans only the Greeks, and the Balkan peoples under their civilizing influences preserved the art forms, subjects, and principles of medieval Byzantium. Only if we fully appreciate this ...

You step off the bus, and you think you know what you are going to see. You’ve seen the pictures, taken the rudimentary 8th-grade course on ancient Greece, and watched the movie “Clash of the Titans.” ...

The history of Modern Greek at Harvard University began in 1828, just a few years after the Greek War of Independence started ...