Adamantios Korais

Potamos Publications presents the Greek edition of "Voices of the Lost Children of Greece," a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees from Greece to the USA and the Netherlands in the years of the Cold War, at the Epi Lexi bookstore (32 Akadimias) at 7 p.m. on November 22.

Prominent professor and Hellenist Roderick Beaton took the oath to become a Greek citizen at a ceremony held at the Bank of Greece on Tuesday.

The 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution constitutes a good opportunity for Greece and the US to celebrate their historical friendship. The Greek and American struggles for independence were marked by similar causes and ideals. The material not only points to older research but also facilitates the realization of new studies.

Hundreds of people were stranded on the port of Alexandroupoli in northern Greece on Wednesday morning after a mechanical failure on a Zante Ferries vessel.

It happened on the Adamantios Korais ferry ahead of the 7 a.m. departure for the islands of Samothraki and Limnos.

The company said that 597 passengers were on board.

The Adamantios Korais ferryboat will be inaugurating a new service between the port of Alexandroupoli in northern Greece and the north Aegean island of Samothraki on Monday.

"Adoption, Memory and Cold War Greece" is the subject of a lecture that Gonda Van Steen, a professor at King's College, London, will deliver at the British School library on Wednesday, April 3. Van Steen is the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, and director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. The Athens lecture starts at 7 p.m.