This replica, however, of Greece’s one and authentic Parthenon at the Athens’ Acropolis, stands proudly as the centerpiece of Centennial Park, Nashville’s premier urban park.
The re-creation of the 42-foot statue of ancient Greek godess Athena, is the focus of the Parthenon just as it was in ancient Greece. The building and the Athena statue are both full-scale [...]
> John Dimitri Negroponte, the first US National Intelligence Director, appointed by former President George W. Bush and approved by the Senate in 2005, is the son of Greek immigrants to the United States?
> The former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, George Tennet, was also son of Greek immigrants to the US. Greek Americans [...]
People might have learned in school about how Greece was the birthplace of Democracy, and how the ancient Greece influenced modern architecture, philosophy and more. Yet seeing panoramic images of Greece and hearing an informative narrator will refresh the memory and make the compelling history real.
“Greece: Secrets of the Past”, an IMAX film that opened at [...]
New Dorp Beach man, his brother form only band of authentic Greek hoplite reenactors in North America.
It all began with a helmet. George Marcinek of New Dorp Beach was reading about hoplites, the heavily armed foot-soldiers of Ancient Greece. Corinthian helmets cocooned hoplites within their own private world, the book said. Their heads encased in [...]
The play retells a tragic story from the perspective of Eurydice, Orpheus’ wife.
The University Theatre at the University of Kansas is staging Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary look at the Greek myth “Eurydice”, at 7:30 p.m. February 9, 10, 11, 13 and 16, 5 p.m. February 14, and 2:30 p.m. February 15 at the Inge Theatre in [...]
On a broken piece of pottery, two young girls dance around the altar of Artemis, holding hands and praying that she will ensure their fertility.
The painted fragment, found in a well in Athens, is a glimpse of the world inhabited by the women of ancient Greece who, denied a role in political activities, flocked [...]
Pavlo, a composer, guitarist and singer who has created his own style of “Mediterranean music”, will be performing with his four-piece band at Arend Arts Center in Bentonville.
Sponsored by Live on Stage in NWA, the concert, is scheduled for November 9 at 2 p.m. Tickets priced at $ 25 per person or $ 5 [...]
