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CHOREGIA – SPONSORSHIP

The ancient Greek society and especially the Athenian one were highly developed and inherited us with some liturgies  still practiced to this very  day and proved to be beneficial for modern societies also. The most important of them is choregia= sponsorship … Continue reading

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A Time of Change is a Time of Opportunity

  THE MORNING OF THE WORLD Most people, when they think of Greece, think of Socrates and Pericles. They believe that Greece’s real importance lies in the past. But that conception is wrong. For over 200 years, Greece has been … Continue reading

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Protests in Athens

On February 12, 2012, in the very late hours of the evening, the Greek Parliament struggled but succeeded in passing new and more severe austerity measures, imposed by the EU, in order to avoid financial default. The measures are considered … Continue reading

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