Plato

Choreographer Iro Vasalou and the Snap Dance Company breathe life and movement into Plato's "Symposium," focusing on the ancient Greek philosopher's study of "love as a god, a physical state, a spiritual quest and a social condition." The performance will be on stage at Understage B of the Athens Concert Hall (megaron.gr), from March 10 to 12.

Dimitri Gondicas speaks passionately but modestly when discussing the new branch of Princeton University's Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies in Athens.

Gondicas has been at Princeton since the 1970s, first as a student of physics and then as a lecturer in Modern Greek, going on to become the director of the Seeger Center of Hellenic Studies in 2010.