Articles in Modern Greek of general interest

Ioannis Kokkinidis has sent me a number of links to online articles in modern Greek on subjects which many readers may find interesting.  Remember, Google now has a Greek->English translator.

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_columns_2_04/05/2008_268634
Opening of the library of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, sponsored by the National Bank of Greece.

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_2_10/02/2007_215501
Greek Libraries on the Internet

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_2_14/01/2007_211765
Rare treasures saved in digital form

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_2_14/05/2006_183787
Our future is being “rebuilt” digitally

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_2_27/06/2004_107938
The importance of monastery treasures

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_2_19/12/2004_127191
book-binding, a witness of culture/civilisation

The following 3 are on the Vatican Library:

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_2_12/12/2004_126358
Rare Greek Manuscripts

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_1_12/12/2004_126360
In the secrets of the Vatican library

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_100002_12/12/2004_126359
No more secrets (it is an interview with the librarian of the Vatican, by far the most interesting of all articles so far)

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_2_16/06/2002_28486
Did Byzantium hurt antiquity? (This article generally summarises what the majority of Greeks think about themselves and the Byzantine Empire and the transmission of Greek culture. As you can see though in the introduction, not all Greeks)

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_2_22/07/2001_5004088
Unique relics abroad

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_columns_2_13/05/2008_269634
http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_2_13/05/2008_269621
http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_2_05/12/2008_294810
Three more on the Greek patriarchal library in Alexandria.