The recently restored Ancient Theatre of Aptera in Chania on the island of Crete will re-open after 17 centuries with a free, dramatised performance of a passage from Homer’s Odyssey.

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has taken a stance against the Trump Administration, and its use of the Bible to justify its controversial immigration policy which has seen children of immigrants being separated from their families at the US-Mexico border.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) counterpart Zoran Zaev have made history, with the leaders coming to an agreement over a mutually acceptable name for FYROM, putting an end to a 27-year dispute between the neighbouring countries. Or so they thought.

Ruling SYRIZA party MP Kostas Seltsas has caused some controversy after dancing to the tunes of an irredentist song that calls for the “liberation” of “Aegean Macedonian”.