Tag: Culture
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Greco-Persian
I find the proposition that people should learn Modern Greek because this will improve their English vaguely amusing. Granted there do exist an extremely large number of Greek loanwords and Greek-derived neologisms in the English language but more often than not, English speaking Greeks tend to learn the Greek word AFTER they have discovered its…
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7th Edition of Nassim El Raqs
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Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2017: Youthful, Alternative, Political
Since its inception in 1955 the “Athens and Epidaurus Festival” was staged at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in an attempt to bridge modern recollections of antiquity with contemporary artistic output. In recent years the Festival forged a modern identity opening up to cutting-edge international productions, and promoting young Greek artists who have something to…
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4th century imperial bath complex inaugurated in Egypt’s Alexandria
Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany and members of parliment inaugurated Alexandria’s cistern and imperial bathing complex area in the Kom El-Dikka archaeological site. The area had been undergoing excavation and restoration since 1960 by an Egyptian-Polish mission from Warsaw University. Mahmoud Afifi, head of the ministry’s Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Department, said that the newly…