Members of the Parliamentary Friendship Group Greece-Germany will visit Germany, following an invitation from the corresponding German Parliamentary Friendship Group, from September 21 to 26. The delegation comprises the president of the group, Filippos Petsalnikos (PASOK, Kastoria), the vice-president, Elias Fotiadis (New Democracy, Imathia), the secretary, Maria Skrafnaki (PASOK, Heraklio), and members Stavros Dailakis (ND, Drama), Theodora Tzakri (Pasok, Pella) and Athanasios Plevris (LAOS, A’ Athens).
Education Minister Evripidis Stylianidis met on Thursday with the Patriarch of Alexandria, Theodore II. In statements made immediately after the meeting, the Education minister said the focus of discussions was support for the Patriarchate with executive staff, whose education would ensure the functioning of an excellent library that has been organised there. Also, it was agreed to legalise – through a legislative amendment – an institute for career orientation in Alexandria.
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday received his Danish counterpart Anders Fogh Rasmussen for a meeting focusing mainly on European issues, energy policy and climate change.
The Foreign Undersecretary – in charge of Greeks living abroad – Theodore Kassimis went to Paris yesterday, in order to attend a ceremony for the enthronement of the Metropolitan bishop of Europe, Patriarchate of Antioch, Ioannis. It is the first time that a Metropolitan diocese of the Antioch Patriarchate will be established in Western Europe.
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Greek vases on display at Melbourne University
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21.09.08
In Australia, Melbourne University’s Ian Potter Museum of Art is featuring a new exhibition, entitled Greek Vases, running to April 5, 2009.
Some of the most important pottery producing centres of the Greek world
are represented in the University of Melbourne’s Classics and
Archaeology Collection: Athens, Corinth, east Greece and south Italy.
This important collection covers the period from the thirteenth to the
fourth centuries BC and is one of the most highly regarded collections
of classical antiquities in Australia.
The collection of classical antiquities at the University of Melbourne
was created to honour the memory of John Hugh Sutton, of Trinity
College, who was killed in a motorcycle crash soon after he had
completed his second year of studies in Classics. As a memorial to
their son, in 1926 Sutton's parents donated the sum of £500 for the
establishment of a Classics museum, and a superbly representative
collection of 37 vases and artefacts, 100 coins and nearly 80
reproductions, was rapidly assembled on the campus.