Today we are going to tell you about the Greek tradition of VASILOPITA, the cake we cut and share on New Year’s Eve or Day. The vasilopita is usually a cake with a coin inside it.

Today we are going to analyse a word that is very widely used these days…

You will all say WATER-NERO in Greek. But did you know that NERO-ΝΕΡΟ in Greek has changed?

Today we are going to tell you about a beautiful word that you may know from your own language.

It’s the word NOSTALGIA. Did you know that ….

To everyone’s delight, the alkyonides days have come again this year!

Dearest friends and colleagues,
 
Let us tell you a myth from the Greek Mythology and let you make your analogies:
 
When Pandora opened her box, a box that Zeus had given her with the advice not to open it because that would lead to trouble for all the people, we know what happened: misfortune, pain, misery, trouble, [...]

To your surprise, today we are going to talk to you about a word in English that comes from Latin that comes from Greek!!!
The word is CORNUCOPIA, which in English means “HORN OF PLENTY». The roots of the word are CORNU (horn) and COPIA (plenty), but the amusing part is the myth behind it!
Well, dear [...]

DID YOU KNOW…
where the greeting “ghia sou” comes from? Well, it comes from the name of the Greek goddess HYGEIA {ΥΓΕΙΑ}, which means “health”. Hygeia was the daughter and attendant of the medicine-god ASKLEPIOS. She had two sisters, Panakeia (all-cure) and Iaso (remedy). Her opposites were the Nosoi (Diseases). In classical sculpture she was represented [...]