The Orthodox Easter tradition of throwing dynamite on the island of Kalymnos echoes the Greek resistance to the Italian occupation of the 1940s.

A hundred years after the cosmopolitan city burnt to the ground, the truth about who started the fire and why remains a point of contention.

The idea that the disparate nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea represent a single region is the product of the nineteenth century.

In the first century B.C.E., a Roman ship sank near the Greek Island of Antikythera. In 1900 some off-course sponge divers discovered the wreckage.

Globalization is the watchword of our time, but maybe Alexander The Great was the first global citizen.

The Greeks rallied under the word "ochi", or no, as the Italians attempted to gain control of Greece during 1940-1941.

Without a more nuanced understanding of the power dynamics at play, economic coercion will fail to bring Greece back into the European fold.