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The Canadian Institute in Greece seeks to promote Canadian research and education in fields relating to Greece’s heritage.

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The Parthenon, dedicated to Athena, at the Acropolis, has miraculously withstood time for almost 2,500 years; its Doric architecture has survived multiple conflicts that resulted in it being blown up, looted, and reconstructed into different religious temples.

#athens #parthenon

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UPCOMING LECTURE & EXHIBITION: Please join us at 7 pm on June 11 for Dr. Henk Stam’s lecture, “Photographs from the Field” and the opening of a photo exhibition, “Unexpected Encounters: Roadside Shrines in Greece”.

Click the link for more info: https://t.co/v2MwmjN3nJ

#greece

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To honour those who fought for Greece’s freedom, the Greek State established the History of War Museum in 1975, which today has several branches and Annexes throughout Greece. The War Museum houses artifacts of war from the Paleolithic Period to the Korean War.

#greece #history

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Despite many of its buildings having been lost to time and to Sulla’s sacking of Athens in 86 BCE, the Lyceum—unearthed in 1996—stands as a relic of its philosophical past as Aristotle's school of philosophy.

#archaeology #athens #greece #philosophy #Aristotle

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Established in 1979 by art collectors Basil Goulandris and Elise Karadontis, the B&E Goulandris Foundation aims to promote the visual arts and operates 2 museums in Greece (Athens and Andros).

#art #athens #greece #museum

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Constructed in 570 BC, destroyed in a 510 BC fire, and rebuilt between 500 and 490 BC, the Temple of Athena Aphaia on the island of Aegina stands in worship to the goddesses of the temple’s namesake.

#aegina #greece #archaeology #mythology #αρχαιολογία

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Beginning in 1878 as a small collection exhibited at the University of Athens, the National Gallery of Greece houses 20,000 works of art, showcasing the transformations in Greek and European art (and, currently, the Russian avant-garde)

#art #greece #athens #history #museum

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Join us on May 27, 19:00, for the Institute's 50th anniversary with the opening of the exhibition, "The Canadian Institute, 1976-2026".

Info: https://t.co/v4yMPT3fcj

Live-stream: https://t.co/fX7rc1kxbH

You must RSVP to [email protected]
#archaeology #classics #greece #canada

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The Panathenaic Stadium preserves nearly 2,500 years of Athenian history.

During the Panathenaia, Athenians honored Athena here with races, boxing, and the pentathlon, awarding victors sacred olive oil tied to Athena’s mythic contest with Poseidon.

#sports #archaeology #greece

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Did you know Aegina once rivalled Athens as a trading centre before Athens conquered it in 459/458 BCE?

Today, Aegina’s Temple of Apollo stands as a lone column visible from its port—a trace of the hill’s prehistoric, Classical, and Byzantine lives.

#Aegina #Archaeology #Greece

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The CIG invites you to join us for a co-sponsored workshop, "From Pleistocene to Anthropocene: The Challenges of Representing Long-Term History" on May 22nd, from 09.00 to 17.30 at the Danish Institute at Athens.

Program: https://t.co/j55frz04GQ

#athens #workshop #archaeology

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Many of Greece’s most defining transformations, exhibited at the Museum of Modern Greek Culture, have taken place within the last 200 years. The preservation and interpretation of the sites studied at the CIG have been shaped by this history!

#history #greece #athens #culture

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Did you know? Athenian myth says Mount Lycabettus was born from Athena’s rage: after hearing Cecrops’ daughters opened the forbidden box holding Erichthonius, she dropped the limestone peak she was carrying. Today, its summit offers rare quiet above Athens.

#Lycabettus #Athens

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A warm welcome to our new intern, Nicole Kulova, a Political Science and Philosophy student from York University!

Learn more about her here: https://t.co/EJyDGSFpEU

#canadianinstituteingreece #cig #yorkuniversity

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Overlooking Athens atop the Acropolis is the Parthenon which has gone through much destruction, reconstruction, and reuse since the 5th C. BCE and is now partially restored. Next to it stands the uniquely shaped Erechtheion, the copies of the Caryatids acting as columns.
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UPCOMING LECTURE: The CIG invites you to join us at 19:00 on April 29 for Dr. John S. Traill’s lecture, “Inscriptions Illuminating ancient Athens” at the CIG's 'Nick Mirkopoulos Centre', Orminiou 3A, Athens, 11528 Greece.
Click the link for more info: https://t.co/UVBaHzMchG

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Below the Acropolis Museum lie the excavations of a neighbourhood that was occupied from c. 3500 BCE until the 14th C. CE. Visible remains include Roman structures: dwellings, baths, and public latrines. This resulted in many cisterns and water systems found here.
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The Acropolis Museum displays the artifacts found on the nearby Acropolis and its slopes. The most notable include the marble blocks with friezes from the Parthenon and the Caryatids from the Erechtheion. These are housed inside for protection from the elements. #acropolismuseum

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Happy Easter! We hope you will all enjoy some well-deserved time off with your loved ones. The Institute will be taking a two-week break for the annual Easter recess. We will be closed starting Monday, April 6th and reopen Monday, April 20th.
Καλό Πάσχα σε όλους!

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Hadrian’s Library was built in the 2nd C. CE under the emperor and consisted of the main library area to the east of a peristyle courtyard that housed 40 niches for holding papyrus books. In the 5th C, a tetraconch church was built in the court, leaving surviving mosaic floors.