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In mid-October (2018), during excavations by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Phthiotis and Eurytania in the greater area of Atalanti in Phthiotis, four torsos of life size limestone statues came to light and one section of the three sided base of a statue. Continue reading “Archaic funerary statues in Phthiotis: The Atalanti kouroi”
Excavations continued this year of the prehistoric settlement at the site of “Koimisi Therasias”. The settlement that takes up the summit and upper slopes of an impressive hill on the south side of today’s Therasia on the brow of the crater/caldera before it erupted, dates from the Early and Middle Bronze Age and offers important data on the Thera-Therasia complex during the earlier phases of the Bronze Age. Continue reading “Important finds from Therasia”
The blight of “Bavarocracy”* in the Church of Greece
In the same year that Ioannis Kapodistrias was assassinated (1831), Korais, who was a product of western education, published his work “Hieratikon Synekdemon” – a text containing his proposals for the reformation of the Church according to Protestant Calvinism. Continue reading “When the Western ‘Enlightened’ looted and closed down Monasteries in, liberated (?) by the Ottomans, Greece”
Τhe Archaeology Sector at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly announces the results of regular excavations at the ancient city of Kythnos (today’s Vryokastro) earlier this year (26/5-5/8). The excavations have yielded particularly significant findings. Continue reading “Significant new findings on Kythnos island”
Here we reproduce parts from three different articles on the subject, so that our readers obtain the best possible information. Continue reading “Mycenean palace unearthed near Sparta, Linear B Tablets Found”
“It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward”. This is what Joseph Campbell said, the professor of mythology whose work on comparative mythology is vast and illuminating.
India and Greece both boast ancient civilisations with deep, rich mythologies. Like many mythologies around the world, Hindu and Hellenic mythologies too share some fascinating similarities. Here are our top picks: Continue reading “Similarities between Hindu and Greek Mythology”
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