Ancient Greek religion

As tourism starts to pick up with the advent of spring, the launch of summer opening hours at the country's archaeological sites and museums on Saturday got off to a less than satisfactory start.

Mary Beard has cornered the market in ancient Rome. But the sun may be setting on her empire as the Greece of Plato and Sophocles is about to make a stirring comeback. Having thrilled theatregoers down the ages and formed the basis for modern soap operas, the stories of ancient Greece find themselves centre stage once again.

The reunification of the Parthenon Marble with the monument itself is part of the issues that archaeologists from around the world will talk about in the Palazzo dei Congressi in Florence under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of Tourism.

Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avcı has thanked daily Hürriyet for reporting on the poor condition of the Temple of Artemis, saying he gave the necessary orders for the protection of the ancient temple in the Selçuk district of the western province of İzmir. 

Heraclia Latmos was one of the beautiful coastal cities of Karia, resting against the Latmos (Beşparmak) mountains and facing the Aegean. 

While the alluvial silt carried by the Greater Menderes River resulted in coastal towns like Miletus and Pyrenees being left 30 kilometers from the sea, they turned Latmos into a lake city called Bafa. (A) 

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Greece's Central Archaeological Council (KAS), which has oversight over all of the country's ancient sites, has rejected a request by international fashion house Gucci to hold a runway show on the Acropolis this summer.

This is a map showing where all of the characters originated in Homer’s epic poem The Iliad. I know Greece is small by today’s standards, but it was surprising to me how geographically widespread the hometowns of the characters were. The Iliad is set sometime in the 11th or 12th century BC, about 400 years before Homer lived.

Findings obtained during archaeological excavations in Klaros, one of the world's oldest oracle centers in the Menderes district of the western Turkish province of İzmir, are contributing to the development of faith tourism. 

The head of the Klaros excavations, Professor Nurdan Şahin, said excavations had been continuing with intervals in Klaros since its discovery in 1907. 

The American Women's Organization of Greece (AWOG) is organizing its annual Christmas bazaar on Wednesday, November 30, at the Athens War Museum. Going on sale are handmade ornaments, wreaths, tablecloths and other decorative Christmas items.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Friday laid wreaths at the Commonwealth Cemetery in Belgrade in commemoration of the WWI Armistice Day.

In attendance at the ceremony were members of the Serbian Armed Forces Guard and the Irish Guard.