Greek Reporter

Strabo: The Ancient Greek Geographer Who Mapped the World

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...
The New York Times

For Greece’s Economy, Geography Was Destiny

THE debt crisis that caused Greece to ask for an international bailout on Friday has been attributed to many things, all economic: Greece’s budget deficits, its lack of transparency and its ...
Salon

How Athens’ geography feeds unrest

This week the Greek parliament voted through the harshest austerity measures to date — a condition of another IMF/EU bailout aimed to avoid bankruptcy. In response, the Athens streets erupted in riots ...
NOLA.com

Tracing Greek geography from Bayou Road to the banks of Bayou St. John

"New Orleans," wrote A. J. Liebling in 1961, lies "within the orbit of a Hellenistic world that never touched the North Atlantic." Each May, New Orleanians are reminded of their city's Grecian aura at ...
Greek Reporter

The Ancient Greek Philosophers That Knew About America

Ancient Greek philosophers envisioned a fourth continent across the Atlantic, anticipating America centuries before Columbus.
The Debrief

This Remote Greek Peninsula May Preserve a Living Link to the Ancient World

The researchers found that many locals have strong genetic ties to Bronze Age and Classical-era Greeks. While most of southeastern Europe saw major population changes in the Medieval period, the ...