Classical Athens

US President Barack Obama received a crash course in Greek mythology and antiquity at the Acropolis Museum in Athens.

Obama toured the museum after descending from the hilltop complex where he had lingered at the base of the Parthenon and glanced around at the panoramic view of Athens.

The visit by outgoing American President Barack Obama next week to Athens was planned on the certainty that it was going to take place after the victory of Hillary Clinton. And that his keynote speech was to be delivered on one of world's best known locations for the practice of democracy. 

The trial of Golden Dawn leadership and members resumes Monday in Athens after a summer recess with more testimonies of witnesses to the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas.

Fyssas was stabbed to death to murder by Golden Dawn member Giorgos Roupakias in a suburb of Piraeus in September 2013.

According to the online version of US magazine ‘Jetsetter’, Athens is one the 6 most economical cities in Europe for America tourists. The piece urges American holiday makers to seize the opportunity and travel to Europe in 2016, as the air fares are at very affordable rate with the US dollar staying strong.

The Olympic Flame Torch Relay continues its way around Greece, visiting Komotini, Xanthi, Katerini and Larissa on Monday before traveling toward Athens on Tuesday evening.

There just aren’t enough words to describe the city of Athens, though the #ImAnAthenian does all it can to capture the essence of the city with suggestions aimed at enhancing the experience of being an Athenian.

By Lina Giannarou

We take it for granted ? it?s at our fingertips, constantly on our minds, a part of our lives ? but whenever the Internet decides to reveal another small piece of its magic, we are still amazed.

Nighttime visits to three hills in central Athens ? Pnyx, the Hill of the Nymphs and the Hill of the Muses ? are to be permitted following a ruling by the fifth section of the Council of State which overturns a 2008 decision by then Culture Minister Michalis Liapis.

Football supporters defaced the ancient Athenian Long Walls with graffiti. The walls, originally erected in the 5th century BC, were destroyed by Sparta in 403 BC and were rebuilt with the help of the Persians during the Corinthian War.

Femen’s bare-breasted protests reached the Acropolis in central Athens on Thursday as a blonde activist with the words “No God, No Master” written across her chest posed a … modern-day Caryatid in front of the Erechtheion Temple.