Posts Tagged “athens”

A 57'' spot to support the international campaign by S.E.A. (Greek Archaeologists Association) against the IMF / E.U. cuts in Culture ( in GREECE -and not only there..!.)
Inspired by the recent museum thefts in Athens and Olympia. 19.000 archaeological sites in danger. ACT NOW.
MONUMENTS HAVE NO VOICE. THEY MUST HAVE YOURS.
http://www.facebook.com/AssociationOfGreekArchaeologistsAgainstImfCuts
S.E.A. ARCHAEOLOGISTS
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wly0GUZ_QZQ Tags: athens, culture, Greece, greek archaeologists, olympia
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Macedonia News - Makis Psomiadis, the businessman and soccer club owner at the heart of an investigation into a match-fixing scandal, was remanded in custody at Korydallos Prison in Athens on Tuesday, after being handed over to Greek authorities on Monday by the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
“I wanted to return to Greece. I was ... Tags: athens, fyrom, kavala, macedonia, News, psomiadis
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 by David Wilson
Part one of a two part series for BBC4, preseted by Dr Michael Scott of Darwin College, Cambridge. Shot in Athens, Sparta, Macedon and the UK, the film explores the intense debate about luxury which went on throughout the classical period, and which has many echoes in our own time
Tags: ancient greece, athens, luxury, macedon, Sparta
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Recent days have seen a re-emergence of the issue of a Greek withdrawal from the Interim Accord. In fact, the ‘failure’ of the Karamanlis and Papandreou governments to withdraw from the Interim Accord with FYROM has been called “criminal neglect of national interest”. This view was expressed in November of 2008, seven months after NATO’s ... Tags: athens, delavekouras, ethnos, foreign ministry, fyrom, Greece, interim accord, macedonia
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HMG WILL CONTINUE TO ENGAGE WITH ATHENS AND SKOPJE ON "MACEDONIA" NAME/NATO ACCESSION ISSUE
Passed to the Telegraph by WikiLeaks 9:06PM GMT 04 Feb 2011
Ref ID: 08LONDON1112
Date: 4/18/2008 14:00
Origin: Embassy London
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Destination: 08STATE40462
Header: VZCZCXYZ0000OO RUEHWEBDE RUEHLO #1112 1091400ZNY CCCCC ZZHO 181400Z APR 08FM AMEMBASSY LONDONTO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8305INFO RUEHZG/NATO EU COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUEHSQ/AMEMBASSY SKOPJE PRIORITY ... Tags: ACCESSION ISSUE, athens, name, nato, skopje, Wikileaks Cables
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Berea in Easton's Bible Dictionary: a city of Macedonia to which Paul with Silas and Timotheus went when persecuted at Thessalonica (Acts 17:10, 13), and from which also he was compelled to withdraw, when he fled to the sea-coast and thence sailed to Athens (14, 15). Sopater, one of Paul's companions belonged to this city, and ... Tags: A city of Macedon, athens, Greece, modern Aleppo, Seleucus Nicator, syria, thessalonica, verria
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BFR92R The Acropolis, Athens, Greece as it would have appeared in ancient times. Photograph: Classic Image/Alamy
Greece: Birthplace of the modern world?
It had paid-up intellectuals and progressive politics, yet ancient Greece was less civil than we are inclined to remember, says Paul Cartledge
Sunday 7 November 2010 12.00 GMT
E pluribus unum: "out of many – ... Tags: Alexander the Great, athens, birthplace, Greece, paul cartledge
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The uncertainty of the financial markets amid the current recession has had a direct effect on the worldwide fine art market. However, one area of the art market has remained not only resilient but robust. Ancient Art, or antiquities, the term used to describe the art and artifacts of the ancient civilizations of the old ... Tags: Ancient Greek Art, athens, Christie's, Sotheby's
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October 12, 2010
Diplomats in Athens were vexed yesterday by the latest proposal by Antonio Milososki, foreign minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), according to which FYROM should be allowed to begin negotiations with officials in Brussels for accession to the European Union while bilateral talks aimed at solving a dispute over the ... Tags: Antonio Milososki, athens, eu, fyrom, Greece, skopje
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Athens, symbol of the classical civilization, changed its course during the Byzantine period. During late Antiquity it constituted a great intellectual and cultural center in the Empire. However, the following period was characterized both by the prohibition of the teaching of philosophers in the School of Plato under Justinian and ... Tags: athens, attica, Byzantine Empire, churches, daphni, Greece, macedonian renaissance
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