Greece

I found Greek mythology a bit stuffy and dull when I studied it at school, but now I get why so many people got hooked over the centuries

Feeling not quite Greek but not quite British, a young Georgios went down the route of many uncertain teenagers – he chose Top of the Pops as his guide

You can’t convince people to have more babies through tax cuts – so how do you reverse a falling birthrate?

The Greek capital has experienced an influx of Israeli investment in property – but the graffiti around town suggests severe local antipathy

A giant sculpture made from syrup tins gives Greece a new ally in the battle for the Parthenon marbles

The Australian football manager's name tells of his family’s history of relocating

Ten years on, the country’s treatment in the midst of financial crisis remains a stain on European democracy

Makis Voridis, Greece’s new minister for migration and asylum, and his ultra-nationalist links are catastrophic for refugees

To hear the crack of pastry, green spinach and salty cheese waiting inside, is among the highest echelons of what it means to be savoury

Could Athens's new approach to helping users slowly reverse the country's drug crisis?

In a tense year, a new Athens exhibition celebrates our precious freedom to vote

This breathtaking, unspolit Greek island is home to Cantina, a hyper-local restaurant established by Giorgos Samoilis

Two hundred years after his death, Lord Byron is still considered among the founding fathers of modern Greece

Hundreds of athletes and tens of thousands of fans were in Athens in 1906. But a hugely successful Olympics has now been stricken from the records

After six gender-based murders so far this year, Greek women now feel such tragedies are inevitable

Today’s political climate makes celebrating two centuries of freedom more poignant – and political – than ever for the city’s Greek community

Kyriakos Mitsotakis is trying, and failing, to prove that he’s a modern, liberal prime minister

Born with a talent for living – and living off others – the painter never quite seemed to fit in. Then he discovered Greece

Why Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest could be the weirdest Oscar-winner ever

The number of refugees arriving in Athens is out of control

The argument that only the British Museum can protect the marbles isn’t accepted in Greece

The row with Greece shows Sunak can’t even do basic diplomacy. So what’s the point of him being PM?

Tetchy, thin-skinned, used to getting your own way? Then politics isn’t for you, Mr Sunak

Trafficked migrants, fake embryo transfers, babies for sale… the shocking story that reveals the dark side of Crete

This comforting and easy salad works as a refreshing aside to a barbecue, sun willing, or a main course

In Greece, the far-right is bouncing back into the political mainstream

A new exhibition explores whether Ancient Greece's labyrinth existed or was a confection of the imagination cultivated over the centuries

The country thought it was finally putting the financial crisis behind it. But a fatal train crash has thrown the general election into doubt

Taramas is a glorious dip, reliant only on cod’s roe, old bread, oil, garlic, lemon juice and the like. I’m not convinced anything tastes more Mediterranean

After austerity was followed by stability and positivity, the country’s elusive search for sustainable growth is stalling

A revelatory collection of Mediterranean antiquities makes for a quietly subversive exhibition in Cambridge

Over 200 years on, Britain may be about to reverse Lord Elgin’s act of chicanery and vandalism