Greek Reporter

Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

The City Where Ancient Ruins Meet Modern Life

Athens is often introduced through its ancient ruins. But this city also tells another story. One shaped by grand ...
Paste

Translating Ancient Greek: How One Man Launched a Modern Greek Wine Revolution While Holding Onto the Past

Greece has always had a complex relationship with time. Ancient history and modernity in most places make for uneasy bedfellows. In Greece? They’re inseparable. Ancient Greece essentially pioneered ...
Greek Reporter

The Ionian Academy: The Short But Glorious Life of Greece’s First Modern University

Ionian Academy, the first university in Greece, founded by the eccentric British aristocrat Frederick North (Guilford), ...
The New York Times

Edmund Keeley Dies at 94; Shined a Light on Modern Greek Culture

The pre-eminent translator of poets like C.P. Cavafy and George Seferis, he was also a well-regarded novelist and poet in his own right. By Clay Risen Edmund Keeley, who as a novelist, translator, ...
Time

Art: Modern Greek

When he was a 13-year-old schoolboy, a tousled Greek youngster named Nicolas Hadgikyriaco saw his first “modern” painting—a tortured Matisse street scene—in a Paris gallery. “I was terribly shocked,” ...