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Website maps all outdoor sculptures of Athens
For the first time a website records the sculptures sited in public places in Athens. The site athenssculptures.com created by the team «Atenistas» aimes at gathering, photographing, mapping and describe in details all the sculptures that adorn public places of Athens. More than 300 sculptures...
Panathlitikos won the Deaf Champions League
The Group Panathlitikos won the Deaf Champions League 2014. The event was hosted in Belgrade. The team of Minoas of Crete also participated in the organization and occupied the tenth position. The RECs prevailed 2-0 of Typhoon Moscow, 3-0 SCC Budapest Karlsruhe 4-0 in the...
Research: Caryatids’ hairstyle is timeless
Dr. Katherine Schwab, Professor of Visual & Performing Arts at Fairfield University, conducted The Caryatid Hairstyling Project. The project engaged student volunteers as models, while a professional hairstylist recreated the individual hairstyles of the Erechtheion marble Caryatids or maidens, which stand in place of columns in the...
Harvard translates Odysseas Elytis
The Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library has published translations of two collections by Odysseas Elytis, The Oxopetra Elegies and West of Sorrow, translated by David Connolly, renowned translator and Professor of Translation Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the introduction of...
Australia: La Trobe assures progress on Dardalis Archives
La Trobe University is making significant progress on classifying key elements of – and making accessible – the Dardalis Archives of the Hellenic Diaspora. The Dardalis Archives are a unique collection of millions of documents relating to Greek settlement in Australia. Concerns have been raised in...
Exhibition: Greek Gods, Myths and Mortals travel in Australia
Gods, Myths and Mortals: Greek Treasures across the Millennia brings the past to Australia. Experience the evolution of identity, as it interweaves through objects, pieces and artworks from the Pre-Historic to the Neo-Hellenic period. The exhibition commences the collaboration between the Benaki in Athens and the Hellenic Museum...
German museum returns two ancient artifacts to Greece
Baden state museum in Karlsruhe was forced to return two treasures of ancient Cycladic art, a female figurine 88 cm tall and a copper dish, that were illegally obtained. Succumbing to pressure from the Ministry of Culture, Harald Siebenborgen, Director of the German museum, finally...
Greek film festival in Israel
The Embassy of Greece in Tel Aviv is presenting to the Israeli audience the most important Greek film director living today, Pantelis Voulgaris, on the occasion of the Greek Presidency of the European Union Council. His work reflects in many ways the turbulent political history of...
Acropolis Museum celebrates its fifth birthday on June 20
On the occasion of its fifth birthday on Friday 20 June 2014, the Acropolis Museum will commence an ambitious digital restoration program of the Parthenon sculptures. Horse riders of the west frieze will be presented in 3D digital images with additions of copper weapons and bridles,...
Stand up against racism and xenophobia
See below the latest Action Aid Greece campaign that stand up against racism and xenophobia....