Greece

Two hundred years after his death, Lord Byron is still considered among the founding fathers of modern Greece

Hundreds of athletes and tens of thousands of fans were in Athens in 1906. But a hugely successful Olympics has now been stricken from the records

After six gender-based murders so far this year, Greek women now feel such tragedies are inevitable

Today’s political climate makes celebrating two centuries of freedom more poignant – and political – than ever for the city’s Greek community

Kyriakos Mitsotakis is trying, and failing, to prove that he’s a modern, liberal prime minister

Born with a talent for living – and living off others – the painter never quite seemed to fit in. Then he discovered Greece

Why Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest could be the weirdest Oscar-winner ever

The number of refugees arriving in Athens is out of control

The argument that only the British Museum can protect the marbles isn’t accepted in Greece

The row with Greece shows Sunak can’t even do basic diplomacy. So what’s the point of him being PM?

Tetchy, thin-skinned, used to getting your own way? Then politics isn’t for you, Mr Sunak

Trafficked migrants, fake embryo transfers, babies for sale… the shocking story that reveals the dark side of Crete

This comforting and easy salad works as a refreshing aside to a barbecue, sun willing, or a main course

In Greece, the far-right is bouncing back into the political mainstream

A new exhibition explores whether Ancient Greece's labyrinth existed or was a confection of the imagination cultivated over the centuries

The country thought it was finally putting the financial crisis behind it. But a fatal train crash has thrown the general election into doubt

Taramas is a glorious dip, reliant only on cod’s roe, old bread, oil, garlic, lemon juice and the like. I’m not convinced anything tastes more Mediterranean

After austerity was followed by stability and positivity, the country’s elusive search for sustainable growth is stalling

A revelatory collection of Mediterranean antiquities makes for a quietly subversive exhibition in Cambridge

Over 200 years on, Britain may be about to reverse Lord Elgin’s act of chicanery and vandalism

The Greco-Turkish war took place 100 years ago – but historical accounts of those events obscure a disturbing truth, one that must be confronted

Greece’s wildest peninsula, the Mani, is a place of mystery and ruined towers, where locals lived “a knife’s edge away from starvation”

How fascist leaders in Italy, Spain, Germany and Greece all tried to control the public by stifling linguistic variety

One of the inspirations behind the acclaimed movie, Sara Mardini is on trial for helping other refugees

Greece’s wildest peninsular, the Mani, is a place of ruined towers and ‘functional anarchy’

Reconciliation between Turkey and Greece could be simple, despite historic enmities. But who has the political will?

Poet Constantine Cavafy took his own linguistic path as the argument over the form of written Modern Greek raged on

A phone-tapping scandal threatens to end the rule of prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and give power back to a reinvigorated left

As the mercury climbs in the Greek capital and forest fires spark into life again, Athens’ chief heat officer worries about what summer will bring but tempers her fear with dreams of change in one of the world’s oldest named cities

PETER TRUDGILL explains how Catherine the Great’s ‘Greek Project’ led to the naming of Khersón

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