The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is organizing, for the thirty-fifth consecutive year (with the exception of 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic), a Summer Course in Modern Greek Studies (THYESPA), intended for teaching staff, undergraduate and post-graduate students from foreign University Departments or Faculties of subjects...

The Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Greece, Mr. Xiao Junzheng, accompanied by the Educational Attaché, Mr. Lei Tian, and the Deputy Head of the Policy and Media Department of the Embassy, ​​visited the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. The Ambassador was welcomed by the Rector of...

February 9th was officially declared International Greek Language Day in 2017. The date of February 9 was selected because it is also the official commemoration day of the Greek national poet Dionysios Solomos, who wrote the Greek national anthem, titled ”Hymn to Liberty” (Ύμνος εις την Ελευθερίαν).

Greek belongs to the Indo-European family...

The exhibition "Theodoros Papagiannis, History and Diachrony" has been inaugurated at the premises of the Museum of Archaeology and Art History of the School of Philosophy (2nd floor, room 210). The exhibition is a tribute to Theodoros Papagiannis, the sculptor and professor of the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), who has made a great...

As part of the Chinese New Year celebration, the new Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Greece, Mr. Xiao Junzheng, met a group of Chinese students from our University on library premises of the school of Philosophy, on Saturday January 29, 2021 and wished them ‘Happy New Year’, with all measures for the prevention of the Covid-19...

Boston University Philhellenes – BUPh and the Department of Classical Studies at Boston University, Study in Greece, and the BA Program in the Archaeology, History and Literature of Ancient Greece, organize for the first time the “Voyage into Greek Civilization Summer Program”, from May 19, 2022 to June 19, 2022.
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It was on the 14^th of November 1973, six and a half years under the strict rule of the military junta that took over power on the 21^st of April 1967, when Greek students began demonstrations at the School of Law and entered the Polytechneio (Polytechnic School), a building about 100 meters away from the National Archaeological Museum of...