Silver drachma minted in Massalia (Marseilles, France) circa 350-220 BC. Credit: Jastrow/Wikimedia Commons The first ancient Greek colonies were established as early as the 8th century BC, while wide ...

In the last decade, you have no doubt seen the explosion of yogurt options available at the grocery store. While many of the traditional options of years past are still available, Greek yogurt has ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...

In Montclair, New Jersey, a woman caused a scene at a Greek restaurant when she began tearing down Greek flags while shouting, “Free Palestine, this is genocide!” Her outburst startled the ...

Athina (Nounou) Martinou passed away on Friday night - She entered shipping in 1964 and in 1971, she founded the shipping company Thenamaris Athena (Nounou) Martinou, the strongest woman in Greek ...

There’s a section in comedian George Carlin’s 2004 book When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? titled “Count the Superfluous Redundant Pleonastic Tautologies.” “My fellow countrymen ...

A combination of globalisation, people moving, and intermarriage with a nearby town means there are now only five speakers of the Ongota language left.

The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias and lexicons.