Some four thousand years ago, the pyramids in Egypt stand proud, and Babylon in Iraq is mistress of a huge […]
Greek history in a nutshell

Some four thousand years ago, the pyramids in Egypt stand proud, and Babylon in Iraq is mistress of a huge […]
Has Alexander the Great always been just under our noses all this time? On the deathbed of the so-called Philip […]
Greek mythology is having a moment By Jack Rear | 16 September 2023 | See full article Exploring the Peloponnese teaches us […]
Curator of the Exhibition of Elli Lyraraki Under the sponsorship of the Prefecture of Crete and municipality of Réthymno […]
Author Ioanna Kalypso Glypti, Mcteam 22/07/2023 The painter Elli Lyraraki presents her new painting exhibition entitled LINEAR T, curated by […]
TRAGEDY What made Greek tragedy so special was the harmonious combination of primitive sentimentality and rational thought, two states that […]
Let’s explore the outskirts of Rethymno, driving through the largest and oldest olive field of the Eastern Mediterranean Arkadi olive […]
Although the play is now considered one of the great dramas of ancient Greece, the Athenian judges did not react […]
The Western World’s first general hospitals. Hippocrates’ texts and the advanced surgical tools that were found during the excavations at […]
Dionysus is the spirit of this world the esoteric mind and liberator of this world. Elefthir is one of his […]
Zoom discussion with Dr. Edith Hall & Ioanna Kalypso Glypti. Get a preview of the extraordinary journey that awaits you […]
It is probably of biological origin that we humans have a need for beauty. Is our aesthetic need for beauty […]
The name of the god Dionysus, he of the vine and grape, is found in a couple of Linear B […]
The diet of the Bronze Age people of Crete is surprisingly interesting and modern. Indeed, in some aspects it was […]
by: Ioanna Kalypso Glypti There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in and that is where resurrection […]
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 PHAEDRA BOINODIRIS, BETH RUDDEN, IOANNA GLYPTI “Forget everything you think you know about the ancient Minoan culture,” the […]
Boozy beach breaks don’t equal rest and relaxation – I like doing things, learning, seeing sights, and meeting people ByJack […]
In a magical retreat in Crete we dived into the history, culture and transformations of women over the centuries […]
The Minotaur’s form, possibly derived from Near Eastern iconography, was explained in Greek myth through the story of his birth. […]
Euripides Tragedy The Cretans Only shards remain of Euripides’ tragedy Cretans. Yet the fragments that we do have reveal a […]
“The island is Crete in the midst of a wine-colored sea…” Homer wrote in The Odyssey. Yes, his sea is […]
Crete is home for marvelous cuisine. Gastronomy here does indeed have astronomy within it. The food here is remarkably fresh […]
by Demetrios J. Constantelos “The book . . . is a superb presentation of the faith, history, and practice of […]
Studies on the State-Sponsored Campaign of Extermination of the Christians of Asia Minor (1912-1922) and Its Aftermath by Tessa Hofmann […]
by Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, Jack L. Davis This innovative study of the southwestern Peloponnese or Morea combines the study […]
by George Finlay From the preface: “THIS volume concludes the HISTORY OF GREECE UNDER FOREIGN DOMINATION. I have divided the […]
by Trine Stauning Willert This book explores the increasing interest in the Ottoman past in contemporary Greek society and […]
by Theresa Shawcross The Chronicle of Morea, one of the most important and controversial historical narratives written in the late Middle Ages, […]
by David Brewer What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman rule? Was it a period of exploitation […]
by Anthony Everitt What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? […]
by Philip Freeman In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, […]
by H.D.F. Kitto
by Roderick Beaton A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years […]
by Thomas Cahill In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the […]
by Robert Graves
by Mary Renault In this ambitious, ingenious narrative, celebrated historical novelist Mary Renault take legendary hero Theseus and spins his […]
by Mary Renault In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey to […]
by Mary Renault Alexander’s beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the […]
by Mary Renault “It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so […]
by Mary Renault A brilliant reconstruction of the legend of Theseus, the valiant youth who slew the Minotaur, became king, […]
‘The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault’s finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat’ SARAH […]
by Mary Renault ‘Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend […]
by Mary Renault Subtitled, The Heroic Battles of the Greeks and Persians at Marathon, Salamis, and Thermopylae, this is a […]
by Mary Renault In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece […]
by Mary Renault The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault, the author of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, two […]
by Jacqueline de Romilly Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and […]
by Nikos Kazantzakis The Greek writer reviews his life, his art, and his quest for spiritual truth
by Odysseus Elytis A selection of the poetry of this winner of the Nobel Prize demonstrates the development of his […]
C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published […]