In the summer of 1999 he plays the lead role in the film Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns directed by Australian director John Tatoulis. The film is a box office hit when released in Greece in January 2000. In 2001 he works on a film entitled My best friend, the script of which he ...
Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and died of disease leading a campaign during that war, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted after the First and Second Siege of ...
The Greeks would have completely perished during their siege of Troy, had not Achilles been stirred to vengeance by the death of his lover Patroclus. Literary depiction of the exact sexual nature of their relationship runs the range from their being sexual lovers - to “just pals” or “war ...
Hera, Aphrodite …), the mountain is one of the most famous landmarks in ancient Greece and enjoys great importance in the eyes of the Greeks until today. The history of the mount is also marked by the Macedonian
There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education. These stories are of several different classes. To one class belon
In the poem, Apollo is Troy's most consistent and enthusiastic champion against the Greeks. The Iliad opens with Apollo's anger against Agamemnon*, who had taken the daughter of a Trojan priest of Apollo captive. Despite the priest's pleas and offers of ransom, Agamemnon refuses to return ...
Ruler of Halicarnassus, Artemisia helped Xerxes defeat the Greeks and then helped talk him into abandoning the war against the Greeks. 97 of 100 Martha Graham Hulton Archive / Getty Images Martha Graham was a dancer and choreographer best known as a leader of the modern dance expressionist movem...
In classical antiquity, Greeks and Romans displayed art and artifacts in temples and public spaces, laying the groundwork for future museum practices. During theRenaissance, the notion of preserving and studying antiquities resurged. Cabinets of curiosities, or German Wunderkammer, emerged across Europe...
The Greeks followed mythology. Mythology was believed to have been run by three different groups of god. First came the titans, two of them were Gaea and Uranus. The next group was the Olympians; two of them were Zeus and Poseidon. Then after the Olympians came the lesser gods and two ...
...They (the holders of Spanish commissions) have committed barbarous cruelties and injustices, and better cannot be expected, for they are Corsicans, Slavonians, Greeks, mulattoes, a mongrel parcel of thieves and rogues that rob and murder all that come into their power without the least resp...