Category: Walk In Athens

What occurs when divinity becomes mere bureaucracy? When temples proliferate, yet belief begins to wane? When there are many gods, but the sacred feels absent? Welcome to The Sacred Made Cheap, a journey through the gradual unraveling of meaning during the late Roman Empire. From the Senate’s deification of emperors to the spiritual revolt led…

For centuries, the core story of Christianity has focused on male apostles, bishops, and theologians. However, recent research suggests that the forgotten women played a much more significant role than we’ve been led to believe, especially in the early Christian communities of the Greek-speaking world, often in the shadows of empire and within believers’ homes.…

What do a lantern, a drunken philosopher in a barrel, and a monument to Dionysus tell us about the end of the Greek city-state? That’s what we’re going to find out in “Twilight of the Free States,” a journey through the crumbling ideals of classical Athens, from civic pride to imperial decline. Along this winding…

What do a perfectly sculpted ancient athlete, a graffiti mocking early Christian devotion, and the austere robe of an Orthodox monk have in common? The answer is that Greece is Metal. Welcome to a journey into the aesthetic metamorphosis of Greek cultural and religious expression. From the gleaming muscularity of the Apoxyomenos to the black-robed…