Greek mythology

A weather system dubbed Electra by Greece's National Observatory brought gale-force winds and downpours to many parts of the country on Thursday, preventing several ferries from leaving the port of Piraeus, as well as islands in the Ionian Sea, where winds reached 9 Beaufort.

For Mary Beard, the image of Hillary Clinton's severed head was the last straw.

Not-for-profit educational institution College Year in Athens and the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies (DIKEMES) have invited University of Cincinnati researchers Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker, co-directors of excavations at the Palace of Nestor, to discuss the exciting discovery at Pylos in the southwestern Peloponnese of the so-called grave of the "Griffin Warrior"

After Cosco's much publicized investment in Piraeus, China's macroeconomic management agency, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), is promoting new investments in western Attica, primarily in the port of Elefsina.

BELGRADE - A project to build an early warning and alert system of sirens has been launched in Belgrade and should be complete next year, enabling the city authorities to set up sirens across the territory of the capital, Deputy Belgrade Mayor Andreja Mladenovic said Friday.

The latest translation of Homer’s The Odyssey has been translated into English, and while it has been done so dozens of times since it first appeared in English in 1615, this is the first time it has been done by a woman.

A 2nd century AD marble statue of the Ancient Egyptian goddess Isis, who was also worshipped in the wider Greco-Roman world, and a marble head of a satyr, a male companion of ancient wine god Dionysus, have been discovered by archaeologists at a Roman villa and nymphaeum near the town of Kasnakovo in Southern Bulgaria.

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Archaeologists have discovered a unique statue of the goddess Isis and a marble head of satire in the Sanctuary of the Nymphs and Aphrodite near the Dimitrovgrad village of Kasnakovo.

Valuable finds are extremely well preserved and according to experts, their value may exceed BGN 1 mln.

UPD: The road has been opened by traffic police after initially being shut down due to problems caused by the heavy rainfall.

Piraeus street Athens in its direction to the centre has closed at the junction with Hamosternas street, which is also closed, due to torrential rains.

Divination was considered as one of the most important kinds of art (technai—arts, skills, crafts) among the ancient Greeks, second only to medicine, given along with fire to humans by Prometheus (Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 484-99).