Greek mythology

The broader vicinity of Tenea in southern Corinth has always been of interest to archaeologists, but also to antiquities smugglers. The Kouros of Tenea, for example, is a masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture that has been at a Munich museum since 1854 after being illegally taken out of the newly established Greek state.

If you look closely, you can see a variety of similarities between the commemoration of the birth of Christ and the worship of Dionysus in ancient Greece

Some traditions come straight from the ancient Greek times

A marble sarcophagus believed to date back to the second century Roman Empire era and unearthed in 2015 in an olive garden in the northwestern province of Bursa's İznik district has been determined to be telling the story of the Trojan War.

Regional health authorities on Crete have suspended a specialist doctor from a local state hospital after a misdemeanors court found him guilty of sexually assaulting a minor, it emerged on Tuesday.

Crete's regional health authority asked the hospital, which was not identified, to immediately suspend the doctor, according to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

Greek jazz pianist Emmanuel Saridakis presents "The Dance of the Maenads," a musical-narrative project inspired by Greek mythology, at the Half Note jazz club in Mets on Thursday, January 16.

In the beginning was the wind. The wind that precedes humanity and will survive us. The wind that brought the Achaeans and Danaans and other Greek warriors to the shore of Asia Minor to conquer Troy, the wind that obstructed their campaign until their lead king sacrificed a daughter to the cause. Without the wind turning there would have been no war, there would be no poem.

Women working in the ancient city of Heraion-Teichos (city of Hera), which houses the traces of the Thracian civilizations in the Süleymanpaşa district of the northwestern province of Tekirdağ, make ends meet working at the excavations.

The NOESIS Science Center and Technology Museum has inaugurated an interactive exhibition on the adventures of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.

Respected Greek composer Yiannis Markopoulos conducts the ERT Symphony Orchestra and Athens Municipal Choir at the Papagou Garden Theater in his landmark piece "The Liturgy of Orpheus," an oratorio of fragments of Orphic poems with a narrative text by Panos Theodoridis.