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The Municipality of Athens invited people to celebrate Clean Monday and the beginning of Lent together, and as traditional, young and old are already gathered early on Filopappou Hill to fly kites with fun and music. Lenten dishes, lagana, warm bean salad and halva will await those who climb Filopappou Hill, where colourful kites are… […]
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Clean Monday: Athenians colour the sky above Filopappou Hill with kites
February 27th, 2023 
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Marathon: How the Athenians Defeated a Superior Persian Force
April 27th, 2017 Awake Goy The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dream’d that Greece might yet be free For, standing on the Persians’ grave, I could not deem myself a slave. — Lord Byron, “The Isles of Greece” Rekindling the stories of old The stories of old, […]
