Author: David Ricks

Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and the story of ‘Modern Greece’ is usually said to …

Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and the story of ‘Modern Greece’ is usually said to …

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and with British political influence over Greece soon to be ceded to the United States, there was a considerable degree of cultural interaction bet …

Dialogos" encompasses Greek language and literature, Greek history and archaeology, Greek culture and thought, present and past: a territory of distinctive richness and unsurpassed influence. It …

Dialogos" encompasses Greek language and literature, Greek history and archaeology, Greek culture and thought, present and past: a territory of distinctive richness and unsurpassed influence. It …

Called variously the ‘Byzantine epic’, the ‘epic of Modern Greece’, an ‘epic-romance’ and ‘romance’, the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, …

Called variously the ‘Byzantine epic’, the ‘epic of Modern Greece’, an ‘epic-romance’ and ‘romance’, the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, …

Perhaps because of the fact that modern Greece is, through the Orthodox Church, inextricably linked with the Byzantine heritage, the precise meaning of this heritage, in its various aspects, has …

Perhaps because of the fact that modern Greece is, through the Orthodox Church, inextricably linked with the Byzantine heritage, the precise meaning of this heritage, in its various aspects, has …