Greek Reporter

Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
Greek Reporter

The Ionian Academy: The Short But Glorious Life of Greece’s First Modern University

Ionian Academy, the first university in Greece, founded by the eccentric British aristocrat Frederick North (Guilford), ...
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 ...
The New York Times

Edmund Keeley Dies at 94; Shined a Light on Modern Greek Culture

The pre-eminent translator of poets like C.P. Cavafy and George Seferis, he was also a well-regarded novelist and poet in his own right. By Clay Risen Edmund Keeley, who as a novelist, translator, ...
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Modern Greek Politics

Join us for this event that will introduce the new volume The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics, edited by Kevin Featherstone and Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos. This ground-breaking volume provides a ...