Stories
Read interesting stories on history, arts, cuisine and contemporary lifestyle. Follow historic routes and celebrate the timeless essence of Greek culture.
Rineia: The island that time forgot
Rineia, big sister to Delos, is four times its size and a lot less likely to receive tourists, as it is currently the only part of the Municipality of Mykonos that has been protected against the influence of the outside world.
The wives of Philip II of Macedon
Although most people are likely to recognise the name Olympias, the Epirote princess and Alexander the Great’s mother, very few people realise that Philip II, despite dying at the young age of forty-six, is believed to have entered into no less than seven marriages in the effort to strengthen the kingdom of Macedon through political alliances.
The well-guarded secrets of producing an exact museum copy
How are exact copies of emblematic museum exhibits made and what do we need to know about this clandestine process? What separates the good from the bad and what makes an exact copy a stand-alone work of art?