Philip Chrysopoulos

2 days ago | greekreporter.com | Philip Chrysopoulos

The story of the kidnapping of German Major General Heinrich Kreipe on Crete during the island’s occupation by the 3rd Reich in the midst of World War II is one of patriotism and bravery. The operation carried out by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and Cretan  resistance fighters was evidence of Crete’s resilient, fearless residents who resisted the enemy with every means possible.

4 days ago | greekreporter.com | Philip Chrysopoulos

Sacred geometry is a concept developed in ancient times grounded on the idea that the world is created based on a consistent geometrical pattern. This “mysterious” geometry can be found in ancient Greek temples all over Greece. The concept ascribes symbolic and sacred meanings to certain geometric shapes and geometric proportions associated with the belief of an orderly universe.

5 days ago | greekreporter.com | Philip Chrysopoulos

The Battle of Valtetsi, which took place on this day 202 years ago, was the first major victory of the 1821 Greek Revolution and determined the course of the War of Independence. The battle, which took place around the mountain village of Valtetsi in Mantineia roughly 12 km (7.5 miles) west of Tripolitsa (today’s Tripolis), began on May 12, 1821, according to the Julian calendar, and on May 24 according to the Gregorian calendar, and lasted for two days.

5 days ago | greekreporter.com | Philip Chrysopoulos

Just sixty kilometers (37 miles) south of Athens, between Thoricus and Cape Sounion, lie the mines of Laurion (Lavrio). Silver, copper, lead, and even rare metals have been mined there since the Late Neolithic Period, approximately 3,200 BC, until mining unexpectedly ceased for centuries, until the sixth century BC. The mines thrived during Greece’s Classic Period, with slaves doing the backbreaking mining of the metal ores.

6 days ago | greekreporter.com | Philip Chrysopoulos

The ancient Greeks revered the mother and honored her as the giver of life centuries before Mother’s Day became popular in the West. Mother Earth (Gaia), wife of Uranus, was the personification of nature that gives birth to everything and she was worshipped as the ultimate deity. Gaia was the ancestral mother—sometimes parthenogenic—of all life.