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Growing up Greek in Australia
I am the child of Greek post-war immigrants. I grew up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s and early 70s. The landscape of my childhood was bound and defined by the narrow, meandering...
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Finding the Hidden Hellenism in Melbourne
Melbourne is the city with the largest Greek population outside of Europe. Since the earliest instances of Greek migration in the mid-19th century, the Greek community has been a great contributor to...
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How do you crack the code to a lost ancient script?
How do you go about deciphering the script of a wholly different language that was lost more than 3,000 years ago?Linguist and archaeologist Dr Brent Davis says it’s like walking out on a tightrope...
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Beauty, wine and death in the ancient world
Picture a woman gazing at her face in a small mirror of highly polished brass. She has never seen her whole body – no mirror is that large in the Greek and Roman worlds. She whitens her face with...
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