Dimitriadis

Award-winning Greek playwright Dimitris Dimitriadis, hailed as one of the country's top contemporary dramatists, returns with "Aiautos," a study on the death of the hero based on the ancient Greek myth of Ajax.

The serious injury of a police officer by a naval flare at a volleyball match in Athens on Thursday night is yet another incident in the bloody cycle of fan violence in Greece.

Since 1983, at least 13 people have died as a result of hooliganism in and around sport.

Below are some of the major incidents from the litany of shame for Greek sports.

1983: Kicked to death

By Vasilis Labropoulos

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaks the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, July 5, 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/JULIEN WARNAND

Saint Paul's Anglican Church inaugurates its Easter program of concerts with Gabriel Faure's masterpiece "Requiem," written between 1887 and 1890. The mass for the dead features soprano Marilena Striftobola and baritone Dimosthenis Stavrianos, the Musica Raeda chamber orchestra, under the baton of Dimitris Dimitriadis, and the Kallitechnimata and Panteion University choirs.

The government has intervened to reduce labor costs at the Florina and Megalopoli power plants, just before the submission of binding bids for their sale. Its objective is to maintain investor interest and attract a price offer that will be approved by Public Power Corporation.

A day after the Canadian mining firm Eldorado Gold threatened to suspend its operations in Greece, the head of its Greek subsidiary Hellas Gold, Dimitris Dimitriadis, told Skai that the company's local activities are fully licensed and said no ultimatum has been issued. 

Greece's financial woes have clobbered spending on state-provided health services, even as demand has spiked because fewer Greeks can pay for private treatment.

“Insenso”,  written by Dimitris Dimitriadis and directed by Peter Sevastikoglou, will open the theatre circle of the Cultural Capital of Europe 2016 in Wroclaw, Poland, on January 15.

The play is a co-production of the Grotowski Institute and the Avant Art and will be in the Greek language. It will participate in the Theatrical Olympiad contest to be held in autumn 2016 in Wroclaw.