Cupid and Psyche

The Greek National Opera (364 Syngrou) presents a groundbreaking double bill, pairing Rachmaninoff's "Aleko" and Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle" for the first time. This rare staging brings together two powerful one-act operas, each exploring the complexities of the human psyche.

A disturbing incident unfolded in Sofia as a group of teenagers subjected a homeless woman to a vicious assault, capturing the brutality on a mobile phone and sharing the video across social media platforms, as reported by Nova TV.

The perpetrators, aged between 13 and 15, callously filmed themselves laughing while relentlessly kicking the woman throughout her body.

Covid-19 exerts violence on the human psyche. It changes our attitude not only to the world, but also to each other. The pandemic deprives us of the opportunity to be different and tries to depersonalize us, according to writer Vladimir Zarev. Each of us feels the fear that he or his family, friends, may become infected and face fatal consequences.

Celebrated American choreographer Trajal Harrell returns to the Onassis Cultural Center with "O Medea," a part of a trilogy in the making that focuses both on the historical aspects of the famed character from Greek mythology as well as on representations of the female psyche, while exploring the effects of internal conflict on the decision-making process.

The Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens presents "The State Hermitage Museum: Gateway to History," an exhibition of works from the permanent collections of the renowned Saint Petersburg museum. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, November 2, and runs through February 26, 2017.

The French and the Greek people have a long-standing mutual respect for one another. This relationship, despite its ups and down, is embedded in the psyche of the two countries. It surfaced again recently when French technocrats offered their expertise to the Greek government to draw up a last minute set of proposals to help the Greeks avert a disorderly exit from the Eurozone.

Love is one of the most common themes in Greek mythology and this is not at all surprising, given the fact that the Ancient Greeks worshipped not one, but two deities linked with this powerful feeling: Eros (Cupid) and his mother Aphrodite.