Category: CULTURE
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Acropolis Museum in world’s top 10 Institutes
Users of the TripAdvisor website have voted the Acropolis Museum in Athens the best museum in Greece, making it ninth in the world. Designed by US-based architect Bernard Tschumi, the modernist building at the foot of the Acropolis’ southern slope showcases surviving treasures from the Archaic and Roman periods, with particular emphasis on the Acropolis…
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UNESCO names Athens World Book Capital for 2018
The city of Athens has been announced from UNESCO as the World Book Capital for 2018. The proposed program includes meetings with writers, translators and illustrators, concerts, thematic exhibitions, poetry readings and workshops for publishing professionals. The aim of the program is to make books accessible to the city’s entire population, including migrants and refugees.…
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Alexander the Great: Pioneering Multiculturalism
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of its foundation, the Australian Institute of Macedonian Studies (AIMS), in collaboration with the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) and the Pan-Macedonian Association presents the musical concert “Alexander the Great: Pioneering Multiculturalism”. The concert will take place on Wednesday, October 26 at 8 pm in one of the world’s finest…
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“The Decoration of the Temple of Repit in Athribis in Upper Egypt”
Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies Cordially invites you to attend a lecture entitled: “The Decoration of the Temple of Repit in Athribis in Upper Egypt” By: Professor Christian Leitz, Director of the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES), University of Tübingen, Germany Tuesday, 4 October 2016; 4:00‒6:00 pm Bibliotheca Alexandrina Main Entrance, Auditorium. Lecture: Open to the Public,…