Category: CULTURE
-
Wikipedia Robots Fight Over Alexander the Great
The research show that bots behave more like humans than one would expect, “unleashing” a war in cyberspace concerning what to include in the Wikipedia entries. Alexander the Great has always been such a controversial issue and the bots have gone to a cyber “war”. Researchers at the Institute of Internet of Oxford University and…
-
Cavafy in the World: International Cavafy Summer School 2017
These are just some of the questions that will be posed during the first International Cavafy Summer School that will be devoted exclusively to one of the most renowned and widely read Greek poets, C.P. Cavafy. Organized by the Cavafy Archive and the Onassis Foundation, this major international annual scholarly event will take place on 10-17 July 2017,…
-
Two Museums in Athens among 41 Most Spectacular to See Around the World
Acropolis Museum As noted in the article, the Acropolis Museum — inaugurated in June 2009 and designed by Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi — displays “proud statues of the ancients and life-like stone carvings of animals”. It is also mentioned that the museum’s top floor is devoted to the marble frieze that once ran around the top…
-
Greek Culture Minister allocates €2.5 million for Amphipolis Tomb project works
During a press conference this week, she clarified that the funds will be made available immediately for the restoration of the site in northeastern Greece, where a huge grave from Alexander the Great’s era was unearthed. The so-called Kasta Tomb, also known as the Amphipolis Tomb is an ancient Macedonian tomb that was discovered inside the Kasta mound (or…