Anthemius of Tralles was a Byzantine Greek from Tralles who worked as a geometer and architect in Constantinople,the capital of the Byzantine Empire. With Isidore of Miletus,he designed the Hagia Sophia for Justinian I.
Ares is the Greek god of war and courage. He is one of the Twelve Olympians,and the son of Zeus and Hera. The Greeks were ambivalent towards him. He embodies the physical valor necessary for success in war but can also personify sheer brutality and bloodlust,in contrast to his sister,the armored Athena,whose martial functions include military strategy and generalship. An association with Ares endows places,objects,and other deities with a savage,dangerous,or militarized quality.
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was an English writer,scholar,soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War,and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer,on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones,James Bond and Graham Greene".
Simonides of Ceos was a Greek lyric poet,born in Ioulis on Ceos. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of the nine lyric poets esteemed by them as worthy of critical study. Included on this list were Bacchylides,his nephew,and Pindar,reputedly a bitter rival,both of whom benefited from his innovative approach to lyric poetry. Simonides,however,was more involved than either in the major events and with the personalities of their times.
In Plato's Symposium,Penae or Penia was the personification of poverty and need. She married Porus at Aphrodite's birthday and was sometimes considered the mother of Eros. Her sisters are Amechania and Ptocheia. Penia was also mentioned by other ancient Greek writers such as Alcaeus,Theognis,Aristophanes,Herodotus,Plutarch,and Philostratus.
Mytilene is the capital of the Greek island of Lesbos,and its port. It is also the capital and administrative center of the North Aegean Region,and hosts the headquarters of the University of the Aegean. It was founded in the 11th century BC.
John Robert Fowles was an English novelist of international renown,critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus,among others.
The Albanian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used to write the Albanian language. It consists of 36 letters:
John Malalas was a Byzantine chronicler from Antioch.
Vasilis Karras is a Greek folk singer.
Ostanes,also spelled Hostanes and Osthanes,is a legendary Persian magus and alchemist. It was the pen-name used by several pseudo-anonymous authors of Greek and Latin works from Hellenistic period onwards. Together with Pseudo-Zoroaster and Pseudo-Hystaspes,Ostanes belongs to the group of pseudepigraphical "Hellenistic Magians",that is,a long line of Greek and other Hellenistic writers who wrote under the name of famous "Magians". While Pseudo-Zoroaster was identified as the "inventor" of astrology,and Pseudo-Hystaspes was stereotyped as an apocalyptic prophet,Ostanes was imagined to be a master sorcerer.
The National Observatory of Athens is a research institute in Athens,Greece. Founded in 1842,it is the oldest research foundation in Greece. The Observatory was the first scientific research institute built after Greece became independent in 1829,and one of the oldest research institutes in Southern Europe. It was built around the same period as the United States Naval Observatory.
Multiple terrorist attacks have occurred in Greece.
Anna is a feminine given name,the Latin form of the Greek:Ἄνναand the Hebrew name Hannah,meaning "favour" or "grace" or "beautiful".
Pandelis Prevelakis was a Greek novelist,poet,dramatist and essayist—one of the leading Greek prose writers of the "Generation of the '30s". Most of his works are set in Crete.
Alekos Sakellarios was a Greek writer and a director.
A major branch of classical mythology,Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks,and a genre of ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world,the lives and activities of deities,heroes,and mythological creatures,and the origins and significance of the ancient Greeks' cult and ritual practices. Modern scholars study the myths to shed light on the religious and political institutions of ancient Greece,and to better understand the nature of myth-making itself.
Kolonai was an ancient Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia. It has been located on a hill by the coast known as Beşiktepe,about equidistant between Larisa to the south and Alexandreia Troas to the north. It is 3.3 km east of the modern village of Alemşah in the Ezine district of Çanakkale Province,Turkey. Its name in Ancient Greek is the plural form of κολώνη(kolōnē),'hill,mound',a common name for promontories with hills on them in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is not to be confused with Lampsacene Kolonai,a settlement situated in the hills above Lampsacus in the north-east of the Troad.
Modern Greek literature is literature written in Modern Greek,starting in the late Byzantine era in the 11th century AD. It includes work not only from within the borders of the modern Greek state,but also from other areas where Greek was widely spoken,including Istanbul,Asia Minor,and Alexandria.
