Pericles

The funeral oration was a tradition observed almost annually for classical Athenians fallen in war

The Aegean has been a sea of commerce ever since the dawn of the Neolithic Age, and obsidian was one of its most sought-after and valuable exports.

If Athens' population is estimated at roughly 4 million today, back in ancient times, Attica as a whole was home to just 300,000 to 400,000 people, the majority of whom resided in the valley around the Acropolis and the Agora, the center of political, social and commercial activity.

Pericles Lewis, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Yale University, serves as dean of Yale College. He owes his Greek name to his father's love for the Greek historian Thucydides.

An article by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is hosted by the British newspaper "The Mail on Sunday", in which he calls on his British counterpart to seize the opportunity at this time, and the current generation to be the one to finally reunite the Parthenon Sculptures.

Here is the full text of the Prime Minister's article:

The new world order has not come into being as one would have expected in the wake of the Soviet collapse 30 years ago. In fact, it is still in the making, with no signs of settling down. The current coronavirus pandemic, which is ravaging every corner of the world, could perhaps bring this distant prospect closer to us than imagined.

Australians continue to study the celebrated funeral oration attributed to Pericles at school and at university. Often the French are surprised to learn this. For them, Australia is simply a distant land with fierce bushfires and very strange animals. Yet studying ancient Greece in Australia dates back to the arrival of Europeans two centuries ago.

A worker hoists a piece of marble inside the Parthenon during ongoing restoration works on top of the Acropolis hill in Athens, on Monday. Culture Minister Myrsini Zorba and the ministry's General Secretary Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki were briefed on the progress of works during a visit to the site on Monday.

An Athens appeals court on Thursday overturned the convictions of Irianna and Pericles, two university graduates accused of belonging to urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and whose first names have become a symbol of protests against their detention.

A three-day conference on "Thucydides the Athenian," will take place at DIKEMES/College Year in Athens from June 26 to 29.

The conference aims to examine Thucydides within the Athenian context: exploring his political entourage and intellectual content. An international group of scholars will delve deeper into the realities of Periclean ideology and the post-Periclean legacy.