Plato

What is the public role of expertise in Greece? When should governments listen to them? No one expects a modern society to emulate Plato's Republic, but the question goes to the very heart of a widespread institutional problem and one that undoubtedly holds the country back.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to hunt down habitable planets in other star systems and any alien life forms that may reside there.

An ESA committee approved the PLATO Mission on Tuesday during a meeting in Madrid, according to Warwick University, whose scientists will be taking part in the project.

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.

Plato’s Apology that presents the famous trial of Philosopher Socrates will be played in the original ancient Greek language for one night at the foyer of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki on Saturday evening.

For centuries people have looked for evidence into the lost civilization of Atlantis. They have looked for clues from Spain to Morocco, even Antarctica. Now the search has honed into the Greek islands.

By Pantelis Boukalas

Woody Allen says he’s definitely interested in shooting a movie in Athens if local authorities also pitch in for the production’s funding, noting that this was the case when he shot in London, Paris, Madrid and Rome.

Grekland Panorama, the only dedicated travel & food fair for Greece in the heart of Stockholm, the buzzing capital of Scandinavia, is scheduled to take place between February 13 and 15.