Bustle

Modern Greek Mythology Retellings You Need To Read

Believe it or not, some of my favorite kinds of books are the ones that pull from stories I already know. Whether it's adapted fairy tales, re-written classic literature, updated fables, or modern ...
Paste

Translating Ancient Greek: How One Man Launched a Modern Greek Wine Revolution While Holding Onto the Past

Greece has always had a complex relationship with time. Ancient history and modernity in most places make for uneasy bedfellows. In Greece? They’re inseparable. Ancient Greece essentially pioneered ...
Greek Reporter

Athens’ Aiolou Street: The Heart of Modern Greece’s Emergence

Aiolou Street in Athens is arguably the navel of modern Greece—street around which the city and an entire nation began to ...
The New York Times

Modern Greek

'The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy: A New Translation' By Brad Leithauser THE COLLECTED POEMS OF C. P. CAVAFY A New Translation. Translated by Aliki Barnstone. 264 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $25.95 ...
Discover Magazine

An Ancient Form of Greek Language Needs Help to Survive

Romeyka, a relative of the Modern Greek language, has a shrinking population of speakers in Turkey, but a helping hand from scholars and the general public may help it survive. Thousands of languages ...
The Atlantic

The Modern Greeks: An Interpretation of National Characteristics

WHO are the modern Greeks? What is their origin? How did their national character come to be formed? Greeks today speak a language which, though not the ancient Attic tongue, is nevertheless, in a ...
PBS

Episode 412: THE FATHER OF MODERN GREEK COOKING

Diane meets with old friend Chef Lefteris Lazarou, the father of modern Greek cuisine. THE FATHER OF MODERN GREEK COOKING. Diane and Chef Lefteris Lazarou, often called the father of modern Greek ...