Greek American News Digest
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Onassis Cultural Center brings to vivid life the emotions of the people of ancient Greece Art Daily (Mar. 14) The Onassis Cultural Center New York brings to vivid life the emotions of the people of ancient Greece, and prompt questions about how we express, control, manipulate, or simulate feelings in our own society, by presenting its groundbreaking exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC - 200 AD. On view through June 24, 2017 exclusively at the Onassis Cultural Center New York, where admission is always free, the exhibition brings together more than 130 masterpieces from some of the world's leading museums-including the Acropolis Museum, Athens; National Archaeological Museum, Athens; Musée du Louvre (Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities), Paris; British Museum, London; and Musei Vaticani, Vatican City-to explore the ideas and attitudes of people in classical antiquity toward emotion and the ways in which the emotions were depicted, revealing how some are strikingly familiar to us and some shockingly alien. read more
Greece offers ancient archaeological wonders in exchange for Elgin Marbles Independent (Mar. 14) Greece has called for the return of the so-called Elgin Marbles from the British Museum as a symbolic act in the fight against anti-democratic forces seeking "the dissolution of Europe". The Athens government, which decided against taking legal action against the UK last year, will instead renew diplomatic efforts with an offer to regularly loan some of the wonders of Ancient Greece to British institutions in exchange. read more 
Twelve promising Greek startups traveling to SXSW conference in Texas Phantis (Mar. 13) Twelve dynamic Greek startups will have the opportunity to present their products and services in the "Greek Booth" of South By Southwest (SXSW), one of the largest and most important innovation and technology conferences and festivals held annually in Austin, Texas, on March 10-19. Greece's participation is supported and funded by The Hellenic Initiative (THI) and the U.S. Embassy in Greece, with a grant of 50,000 euros. read more
Emirates new Athens-Newark route raises ire of big U.S. carriersWall Street Journal via MarketWatch (Mar. 10) Emirates Airline is launching a new route between Athens and Newark, N.J., intensifying a fight with U.S. rivals that say the Middle Eastern carrier is unfairly subsidized by its government. Emirates President Tim Clark defended his airline's expansion plans on Thursday at a conference in Berlin. "We have breached no terms of the air-service agreement that allows us to do that," he said. read more
 Princeton's Hellenic Studies Center gets new Athens homeEkathimerini (Mar. 13) Dimitri Gondicas speaks passionately but modestly when discussing the new branch of Princeton University's Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies in Athens. Gondicas has been at Princeton since the 1970s, first as a student of physics and then as a lecturer in Modern Greek, going on to become the director of the Seeger Center of Hellenic Studies in 2010.
"The first foreign students to attend Princeton on a scholarship were Greeks. They were brought from Cephalonia in 1825 and presented to the university as descendants of Pericles and Plato," says Gondicas. read more
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