Alcmaeonidae

Australians continue to study the celebrated funeral oration attributed to Pericles at school and at university. Often the French are surprised to learn this. For them, Australia is simply a distant land with fierce bushfires and very strange animals. Yet studying ancient Greece in Australia dates back to the arrival of Europeans two centuries ago.

An Athens appeals court on Thursday overturned the convictions of Irianna and Pericles, two university graduates accused of belonging to urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and whose first names have become a symbol of protests against their detention.

Archaeologists have discovered two mass graves near the Greek capital containing the skeletons of 80 men who may have been followers of ancient would-be tyrant Cylon of Athens.

Regional archaeological services director Stella Chryssoulaki laid out the theory Thursday as she unveiled the findings at the Central Archaeological Council, the custodians of Greece's ancient heritage.

By Elis Kiss

Professor Ioannis Tzifopoulos on Tuesday resigned as deputy rector of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University following the release by a group of philosophy students of television footage in which he commented that those in positions of power should be “fascistized.”

A cup believed to have been used by Classical Greek statesman Pericles has been found in a pauper's grave in north Athens, according to local reports Wednesday.

The ceramic wine cup, smashed in 12 pieces, was found during building construction in the northern Athens suburb of Kifissia, Ta Nea daily said.