Traditionally, families across Greece dye eggs red on Holy Thursday in anticipation of Greek Easter in a beloved tradition in ...
When the ancient Greeks faced the Persians in the Battle of Artemisium, they set the tone for the Battle of Salamis.
On Sunday, Greek citizens overwhelming rejected the bailout plan penned by its creditors. Subsequently, many observers have condemned the Greeks as lazy, ungrateful and unwilling to accept the ...
One of things I like to think about in science is "how do we know that?" It is interesting how one thing builds on another. This is a story of how the Greeks estimated the distance from the Earth to ...
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The ancient Greeks are widely seen as having been the founders of Western medicine more than 2,000 years ago. Although we now have a far more detailed and accurate picture of medicine, the ancient ...
Amidst the financial crisis, ordinary Greeks have earned the unflattering reputation as over-paid and lazy workers who retire far too early. This week, eurozone finance ministers reprimanded Greece ...
Long before NAFTA, global telecommunications and the international shipping industry, the ancient Greeks did overseas business the old-fashioned way: In boats rowed by slaves, they traveled to distant ...
At a time when many Europeans are looking inward after years of economic and political crises, the Greeks stand out as even more focused on their country’s own problems and as the most wary of global ...