Eos, the Greek Goddess of the Dawn, with Memnon So-called “Memnon pieta”: Eos is shown lifting the body of her son Memnon. Kalos inscription. Interior from an Attic red-figure cup, ca. 490–480 BC.

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Could the global flood narrative in the Bible have a basis in fact? Scientists have different theories on the historicity of Noah's flood.

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The passing this week of Harry Mark Petrakis, a literary giant of the Omogeneia and a loving scribe of the Greek-American ...

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Kristallnacht: The Holocaust and the 9th of November. Credit: Mike Licht/ Flickr CC BY 2.0 Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews carried out on November 9-10, 1938, ...

To this day, the "Holocaust of Arkadi" remains a universal symbol of self-sacrifice for freedom in the face of barbarism.

In 1972, Pink Floyd put on a concert for ghosts live in Pompeii. The millennia-old venue witnessed one of rock's most ...