From the islands of the Dodecanese to the villages of Epirus, from Pelion and the Sporades to Thrace, Macedonia and the ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

Nowhere else in Greece have traditions rooted in the worship of Dionysus remained as vibrant as in Eastern Macedonia ...

All traditions are human inventions that last briefly or, sometimes, forever. Some of those innovations are extremely useful, and last, others vanish, only to be replaced by better alternatives. We ...

The Dutch mark New Year’s Eve with oliebollen, deep-fried dough balls whose roots trace back to ancient Germanic midwinter ...

Many of us will be celebrating Easter on March 31st this year and are already shopping for Easter basket stuffers and gifts. The same isn’t true for folks who follow the Orthodox calendar, however. In ...

There's always been a deep-seated rejection of monarchy in Greece, favoring accountable, accessible leaders over distant, ...

Correspondent photo / Brandon Cantwell The Filarakia (translates to “friends”) served as the primary musical entertainment at the 38th annual Summerfest on Saturday. ...Correspondent photo / Brandon ...

The smell of warm butter filled the kitchen at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Mount Vernon. That’s because there was butter, everywhere: in clear plastic squeeze bottles; on ...

My daughter attends a Greek Orthodox Church school whose tradition is to send its eighth-grade classes on a graduation trip to Greece as a capstone to their Hellenic learning. Parents “chaperone” the ...

The Greeks first colonized the Bay of Naples and the various cities like Pompeii and Herculaneum that studded its sun-kissed coast in 600 BC. Centuries later, when the Romans conquered Greece in 146 ...