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For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...
Santorini' lets you build up your beautiful Greek island. And if things get hard, use the powers of your gods to cheat… Just ...
He was channeling Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and festivity, with a song about "the absurdity of violence between human ...
Greece's beaches have stories, too. Dionysus, god of wine, wooed Ariadne on the sandy shores of Naxos. Kolovri Rock, off Corfu's Palaiokastritsa, is said to be Odysseus' ship turned to stone by ...
Temple of Greek god Apollo and goddess Athena in Side, Turkey. Credit: Ingo Mehling / CC BY-SA 3.0 Once overshadowed by the more famous Temple of Apollo, the ancient Temple of Greek goddess Athena in ...
The champion of the Acropolis must surely be the Parthenon, which, according to Andrew Stewart’s book One Hundred Greek Sculptors ... spring festival of Dionysus, it was positioned next to temples of ...
Everyone is hooked on the content of the show, so much so, people have noticed the very sweet detail of some childhood pictures that appear in the Adolescence opening credits. As episode two ...
God of War: Ragnarok. Both feature Greek demigod Kratos having slaughtered the pantheon of Greek god and retiring with his son to Scandinavia where he must contend with mythical figures of Norse ...
A selection of some of the most striking sports photographs taken around the world over the past seven days: Tasmania player Jordan Silk dives to attempt a catch before their Sheffield Shield ...
Marble sculpture of the Greek god Apollo from the 2nd century AD. Credit: Reuters. For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of ...
The Newcastle players and coaching staff have posed for giant team photos regularly under Eddie Howe, but this one will have topped the lot ...