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The Museum of Greek Folk Art is a museum in Athens, Greece. The museum was founded in 1918 as the Museum of Greek Handicrafts in the Tzistarakis Mosque in Monastiraki , which later became the National Museum of Decorative Arts and in 1959 it obtained its current name.
Greek folklore is the folk tradition that has developed among the Greek people in and outside Greece over the centuries. Similarly to other European folklore, it includes pre-Christian pagan folklore and elements of ancient Greek mythology and folklore which developed from the Indo-European religion and the local Pelasgian mythology, along with Christian myths and legends that developed during ...
Restored North Entrance with charging bull fresco of the Palace of Knossos (), with some Minoan colourful columns. The first great ancient Greek civilization were the Minoans, a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on Crete and other Aegean Islands, that flourished from c. 3000 BC to c. 1450 BC and, after a late period of decline, finally ended around 1100 BC during the early Greek Dark Ages.
The church of Hagia Sophia (on the skyline) at Monemvasia, classed as an ancient (immovable) monument [1] [2]. The cultural heritage (Greek: πολιτιστική κληρονομιά) of Greece, as defined by Law 4858/2021, includes archaeological sites, historical sites, monuments both immovable and movable, and intangible cultural heritage.
Category: Culture of Greece. 93 languages. ... Greek folk culture (3 C) Food and drink in Greece (3 C) G. Greek-American culture (8 C, 9 P) H. Hellenistic astrology ...
Category: Greek folk culture. 1 language. ... Greek folklore (7 C, 22 P) M. Folk museums in Greece (2 C, 3 P) Greek folk music (3 C, 2 P)
Greek and Roman Folklore: A Handbook. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313335754. Felton, D (2010). Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78924-1. Hansen, William (2019). The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691195926
National Historical Museum of Greece (Old Parliament House) Folklore, Folk art. Centre for the Study of Traditional Pottery; Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum; Museum of Greek Folk Art; Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments; Museum of the History of the Greek Costume; Art museums and galleries, Music, Theater, Culture, Popular Art. Athinais ...