According to COUNTRYAAH.COM, Greece or as the country is officially called the Hellenic Republic can be found in Southeastern Europe on the southernmost part of the Balkan Peninsula, but the country does not belong to the Balkan region. Greece consists of a peninsula and about 3,000 smaller islands scattered off […]

Exhausted the living sources of the epic, poetry, fantasy, sentiment had to find another outlet. In fact, they found it in the many forms of what we conventionally call lyric: which had its splendor in the seventh and sixth centuries. C. With it the primitive lyric-musical manifestations, mentioned above, which […]

On the same path as Archilochus, but with a somewhat different, less personal, less aggressive temperament, a contemporary or a little later, Semonides of Amorgos (a native of Samo), author of the famous satire of women, took up his post. Instead Hipponatte of Ephesus, who lived about the middle of […]

In Cretan-Mycenaean art there are very valuable documents of pictorial art, and more precisely of frescoes. In the Hellenic Middle Ages the art of large fresco painting seems to have been lost; this can also be assumed on the basis of literary tradition. There is indeed uncertainty as to its […]

Athens, even after Polygnotus, continues to be the major center of pictorial art. A development of the primordial polygnothean perspective had to be felt in the works of Agatarco di Samo, who in Athens, already before 450 BC. C., had painted a scene for a tragedy by Aeschylus (Vitruv., VII, […]

From the Theban school came Eupranore from the Isthmus, who was also a sculptor, and who actually belongs to the Attic school, nevertheless reconnecting with the Sycionian school for the care shown in the symmetry of the figures. Eufranore’s pupil was the Antidote, and of this was Athenian Nicias, contemporary, […]

The Hellenic mobilization was secretly begun in mid-August 1940. While Greece provided for the reinforcement of the coverage of the Albanian border and the completion of the coastal and anti-aircraft defenses, Italy sent three divisions to Albania, in addition to the five that were already there. According to healthvv.com, the […]

In February there were other offensives by the Greeks who were trying to obtain a decisive victory, before the dreaded German military intervention took place. But every attempt was almost unsuccessful and the opponent had to renounce at first the conquest of Berat and then that of Tepeleni. On 9 […]

The contemporary history of Hellenic finances begins with the implementation of articles 2 and 6 of the peace preliminaries between Greece and Turkey, signed on September 18, 1897 in Constantinople; act by which, in order to guarantee the payment of the war indemnity owed by Greece to Turkey (4 million […]

Of the total area just under a fifth belongs to the islands: this already shows how much of Greece is closely linked to the sea. But even mainland Greece, due to its marked peninsularity and the deep indentation of its coasts, is a whole, one can say, a maritime country; […]