Our recent political history has made their central role on the political scene crystal clear. Every Prime Minister, or almost every one, from Constantine Karamanlis and Andreas Papandreou to the present incumbent are cases in point.

Alexis Tsipras’ new book promised a carefully crafted comeback narrative—until its release triggered a storm of accusations, old feuds, and political drama worthy of a reality show, raising the question: is this a new beginning or the final chapter?

A symbolic opening — a pigeon freed at dawn — gives way to a long, combative defense: Alexis Tsipras’s Ithaca is part personal portrait, part exhaustive account and justification of his years in power, written to shape how history will remember him

The July 23, 2018, Mati wildfire that claimed the lives of 104 people and injured hundreds of others in a seaside resort east of Athens proper and essentially served as the 'gravestone' of Tsipras' coalition government

Fragments bearing the name of Odysseus have been found on the island of Ithaca- home, according to legend, of one of ancient Greece’s greatest heroes.