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The Athenian was founded in 1883, [6] with an 1886 circulation of about 1,000. [7] In its early history it billed itself as a Republican newspaper published weekly on Fridays. [8] The Post-Athenian was purchased in 1930 by Fred Wankan, and on March 16, 1931, was relaunched as a daily under the name The Daily Post-Athenian. [9]
Funeral monuments from the Kerameikos cemetery at Athens. After 1100 BC, Greeks began to bury their dead in individual graves rather than group tombs. Athens, however, was a major exception; the Athenians normally cremated their dead and placed their ashes in an urn. [4]
Mid through the Greek financial crisis in 2016, on a national level there were 15 daily general interest, 11 daily sports, 4 daily business, 10 weekly and 16 Sunday newspapers in circulation. [2] On a local level, almost all regions of Greece have a printed newspaper. Below is a list of newspapers published in Greece.
The last part of the ceremony was a speech delivered by a prominent Athenian citizen chosen by the state. Several funeral orations from classical Athens are extant, which seem to corroborate Thucydides's assertion that this was a regular feature of Athenian funerary custom in wartime. [a]
Mary Alison Frantz (September 27, 1903 – February 1, 1995) was an American archaeological photographer and a Byzantine scholar. She is best known for her work as the official photographer of the excavations of the Agora of Athens, and for her photographs of ancient Greek sculpture, including the Parthenon frieze and works from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946. The citizens, including some World War II veterans, accused the local officials of predatory policing, police brutality , political corruption , and voter ...
In ancient Greece and, in particular, in ancient Athens, the funeral oration was deemed an indispensable component of the funeral ritual. The epitaphios logos is regarded as an almost exclusive Athenian creation, although some early elements of such speeches exist in the epos of Homer and in the lyric poems of Pindar .
The Athens Messenger was established in 1848, and became a daily publication in 1904.. The newspaper was owned and published by Brown Publishing Company, which publishes more than fifteen daily newspapers and over sixty weekly newspapers.