Marathon

Panagiotis Karaiskos – From the darkness of addiction to the light of the Panathenaic Stadium

Aris C.10/11/202510/11/2025

10/11/202510/11/2025

On Sunday, November 9th, 2025, Panagiotis Karaiskos crossed the finish line of the 42nd Authentic Athens Marathon as the winner. Yet behind that triumphant image, beyond the medals and the cheering crowd, lies a story far greater than an athletic achievement. It’s the story of...

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Argyris Papathanasopoulos the Greek who won the North Pole Marathon

Kostas30/05/202431/05/2024

30/05/202431/05/2024

[:el]Argyris Papathanasopoulos, a Greek doctor who lives in England, holding up the Greek flag in one hand and ice smothered across his face won the North Pole Marathon, the northernmost race on Earth. After 4 hours, 34 minutes, 36 seconds and 4.22 km, unrecognizable from...

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Spyros Louis’ Silver Cup will be exhibited at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne

Kostas30/05/202431/05/2024

30/05/202431/05/2024

The Silver Cup awarded to Spyros Louis, the first Marathon Winner at the inaugural Modern Olympic Games, will be exhibited at the Olympic Museum, in Lausanne, on the occasion of the international marathon to be held in the Swiss city on October 26. The historic...

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Greek-American ultramarathon man Dean Karnazes speaks to ellines.com

Kostas30/05/202431/05/2024

30/05/202431/05/2024

«Navarino Challenge» one of the main sporting events in Greece last year, is set to return for a second run from 19th to 21st of September 2014. The Greek-American ultramarathon man Dean (Konstantinos) Karnazes will set the pace across the three day running event in the Messinian...

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Navarino Challenge returns September 19th-21st 2014

Kostas30/05/202431/05/2024

30/05/202431/05/2024

[:el] “Navarino Challenge” one of the main sporting events in Greece last year, is set to return for a second run from 19th to 21st of September 2014. The Greek-American ultramarathon man Dean (Konstantinos) Karnazes will set the pace across the three day running event...

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Marathon for Animals Protection in Athens and Sydney

Kostas30/05/202431/05/2024

30/05/202431/05/2024

The Penny Marathon will take place on Sunday 13 July in Athens, Greece, and Sydney, Australia. In July 2012, a group of animal lovers ran and cycled from Marathon to Athens in Greece. The point was to raise awareness of the plight of stray, abused...

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Marathon Reading of Homer’s Text

Kostas30/05/202431/05/2024

30/05/202431/05/2024

On May 23-24, the Department of Classics, with generous support from the Alumnae of Northwestern University, will host a marathon reading of Homer’s Iliad on the lakefront at Northwestern University. Starting at 10 pm on Friday, May 23 and ending at dawn the next day, participants...

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Yannis Kouros: The Modern Pheidippides

Aris C.24/09/201212/12/2024

24/09/201212/12/2024

Yannis Kouros was born in 1956, in Tripoli and since 1990 he has been living in Australia where he became an Australian citizen. From a young age he seemed to have a special artistic inclination as from the age of twelve he started writing poems...

Panagiotis Karaiskos – From the darkness of addiction to the light of the Panathenaic Stadium

Argyris Papathanasopoulos the Greek who won the North Pole Marathon

Spyros Louis’ Silver Cup will be exhibited at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne

Greek-American ultramarathon man Dean Karnazes speaks to ellines.com

Navarino Challenge returns September 19th-21st 2014

Marathon for Animals Protection in Athens and Sydney

Marathon Reading of Homer’s Text

Yannis Kouros: The Modern Pheidippides

“Odyssey” – New images of the upcoming Epic movie from Christopher Nolan

The People’s Poet

Alki Zei – Τhe writer who shaped generations

A pioneer of the New Athenian School in poetry and prose

Ambassador of Greek surrealism in poetry

The sacred location that inspires awe

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