The Hellenistic period witnessed many achievements and contributions in all fields of knowledge that have greatly added to human thought and to the culmination of modern science, culture and civilization in general. To celebrate the 24 centuries that elapsed since its beginning and the startup of the Library and the Museum of Alexandria, the Μarianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation, the Acropolis Museum, the Alexandria Center for […]

By Stella Tsolakidou Based on interviews and archive material, Al Jazeera World presents a documentary film on the history of the Greek community of Egypt, from antiquity to modern times, entitled “Egypt: The Other Homeland.” The two prominent civilizations of ancient Greece and Egypt form a deeper connection between the people of the two countries, something which was evident in […]

From the YouTube channel of LycurgosNysio UC Alum Helped Bring Cleopatra to Cincinnati‬‏ Georg Rosenbauer, MBA ’63, explains why the Hilti Foundation helped fund Franck Goddio’s underwater excavations of Egypt’s lost cities, resulting in the Cleopatra exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Video/Ashley Kempher, Lisa Ventre ————————————

Pseudo-Plutarch mentions seventy of these, which must have included purely military settlements; among those whose existence seems well attested, thirteen were in the Iranian territories. They were founded for administrative, military, or commercial purposes and most of them became important regional capitals. Some took the place of already existing towns, others were genuinely new creations. Beginning in the west, they […]

In All Her Infinite Variety NOVEMBER 2, 2010 Cleopatra: A Life By Stacy Schiff A shrewd ruler, not a wastrel, though she worked her bed as no one before or since. By SARAH RUDEN Cleopatra was the last of the Ptolemies, a Greek dynasty that ruled Egypt from 305 B.C. to 30 B.C. Had her power lasted, she might […]

Mêtrophanês Kritopoulos, (Greek: Μητροφάνης Κριτόπουλος, ca. 1589–30 May 1639) was a Greek monk and theologian who served as Greek Patriarch of Alexandria between 1636 and 1639. Metrophanes Kritopoulos was a Greek born in Veria, Macedonia in 1589. Originally a monk on Mount Athos, he was a close associate of Cyril Lucaris. He studied at the University of Oxford in England and […]

In due time the final program and participants will be published on our website. Renowned speakers from Greece, UK, Netherlands, Italy, France, Malta and Egypt confirmed their contribution. Like our 2009 workshop, the program includes visits to all the archaeological sites and museums of Alexandria, and possibly a visit to an extra-mural site such as Canopos or Taposiris Magna. Preliminary Program The fees […]

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Municipal and cultural representatives from Dion, Vergina/Aigai and Pella, meeting with the Hellenic community of Alexandria: Article in Eleutherotypia, by Giorgos Kiousis. Dion is the old religious and cultural center of the Macedonians, Aigai, in the modern village of Vergina is the old, historic capital of Macedonia, where its kings were buried. Pella was […]

Sean McLachlan AP Photo/Nasser Nasser Archaeologists have pulled a massive pylon from the bay of Alexandria, Egypt, that was once a part Cleopatra’s royal complex. The pylon, a pillar of red granite measuring 2.2 meters long and weighing nine tons, formed part of the temple of Isis and stood right next to Cleopatra’s mausoleum in the year 30 BC. […]

One of the best researches over the Ethnic diversity and dialects in Ptolemaic Egypt and especially in Alexandria, comes from prof. W. Clarysse. Prof. Clarysse after examining all the available evidence regarding the names of ancient Macedonians in the Alexandria of Egypt, concludes that “nearly all the names are Greek and only 3 hellenized families shows traces of foreign descent“. Furthermore, he adds “All […]