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Sigma Publications publish books on ancient Greek mythology and Greek folk traditions in English, German, French and Russian.

Sigma Publications was founded in the 1970s by the brothers Menelaos and Yannis Stephanides with the launching of their 18-volume Greek mythology series for children, published in both Greek and English. Today's Sigma Publications, under Dimitris M. Stephanides, continues to issue books based on ancient Greek mythology and Greek folk traditions and are aimed chiefly at readers who love and visit G

reece and want to learn more about its civilization. Our books are a product of our love of literature and knowledge and for that reason we try to keep their prices as affordable as possible. They are produced entirely in Greece and not in distant countries where labour costs are lower. This both reinforces the local economy and avoids the environmental pollution caused by frequent bulk shipping of goods. All our books are designed to withstand frequent reading. Their pages are bound in with stitching, not simply glued and thus will not come loose with time as the pages of cheap pocket editions so often do. The quality of their manufacture ensures that they will remain on your bookshelves for many years to come.

28/09/2025

„Griechischen Mythologie“: https://sigmapublications.com/mth_en_ge0.html

Bei dieser 8bändigen „ “ handelt es sich um das Lebenswerk der Gebrüder Stefanides, das sie nach 25jährigem Schaffen 1997 zum Abschluss brachten. Seither wird die Reihe bei jeder Neuauflage bezüglich Erscheinungsbild und Inhalt verbessert.

Das Werk stützt sich auf das antike griechische Schrifttum ( , , , , , , u.a.) aber auch auf die neuere Forschung (Decharme, Richepin, Graves, Kereny, Rose, Hamilton, Koun) und lässt spätere römische Veränderungen unberücksichtigt. In diesen Veränderungen wird zum Beispiel ein , das Symbol der Verbindung von Geisteskraft und Körperkraft, zum Helden Hercules, der seine Kräfte in nutzlosen Abenteuern verschwendet.

Die Bücher erzählen uns die gesamte griechische Mythologie in moderner, lebendiger Sprache, sie sind mit bildhaften Details angereichert, die das Interesse des Lesers wecken, unabhängig davon, welcher Altersgruppe er angehört.

Ziel des Autors ist es, die Liebe zur Mythologie und zum Lesen überhaupt zu erwecken, deshalb zeigt er die Poesie und die Schönheit der alten griechischen . Er stellt die Mythologie in ihr natürliches Umfeld und präsentiert die Mythen in logischer, zeitlicher Abfolge. Die Beschreibungen und die Illustrationen „duften“ nach Griechenland und nach Meer, bekannte Namen und Bezeichnungen erlangen ihre tatsächliche Bedeutung und historische Fakten tauchen teils vage, teils überzeugend aus dem Gespinst der Erzählung auf.

So ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass die „Griechische Mythologie“ von Lehrern oft im Unterricht verwendet wird und dass sie von Tausenden Lesern jeder Altersgruppe in der ganzen Welt gelesen und geliebt wird.
Die Bücher der Reihe wurden in viele Sprachen übersetzt. 1989 wurde der Band „Die Argonauten“ mit dem europäischen Pier-Paolo-Vergerio-Preis ausgezeichnet.

24/09/2025

acropolis seen from above!

Source: https://www.visitpeloponnese.com/en/prdct/archaeological-site-mycenae

19/09/2025

’s newly restored palace represents a magnificent contribution to Greek cultural heritage, but stirs new questions about , one of ancient Greece’s most colorful but least-understood kings.

The takeaway from a visit to Aigai? The newly restored palace represents a grand, mystery-solving vision of ancient Macedonia and Philip II. We’ve certainly seen grand archaeological visions before, at the Athenian Acropolis, Knossos, Mycenae and elsewhere. Such inspired perspectives are a great tradition in Greece and a beloved source of interest for visitors. Perhaps as Aigai’s recent “dust” begins to settle, there will be a clearer understanding of the scope of the work and contributions accomplished. Much hinges on the palace’s new foundation date, with significant ramifications for the history of ancient Greek architecture and how we perceive the ancient Macedonian monarchy.

Yet many questions remain: If the royal family didn’t live at the palace, where did they reside? Was Philip II truly an enlightened, Plato-inspired monarch, an architectural innovator, who welcomed his subjects en masse into his presence, and who cared enough about democratic ideals to make his palace, as Kottaridi puts it, “an architectural manifesto of the ideal state,” and to post his new laws in a publically accessible portico beside its entrance? Such a benevolent, intellectual image clashes with that we’ve previously held of Philip as an ambitious military commander and empire builder who conquered peoples, burned cities and, at the end, elevated himself among the Olympian gods. The truth may lie somewhere in the middle.

More: https://www.ekathimerini.com/leisure/destinations/1259487/aigai-the-mysteries-of-philip-iis-restored-palace/

17/09/2025

📚📖 Mythologie Grecque des Frères Stéphanidès en français! - https://sigmapublications.com/mth_en_fr0.html

Cette série de livres est une réédition particulière de la Grecque des frères Stéphanidès qui a connu un succès mondial. Le lecteur pourra, à travers elle, se délecter de toute la magie de la Mythologie Grecque, faire un voyage de rêve en pénétrant jusqu’aux confins d’une époque qui remonte à plus de 3.000 ans, et encore, stimulé par la philosophie réaliste de l’auteur parcourant le texte, philosopher lui-même.

15/09/2025

It was part of an ambitious development plan carried out in the 3rd century BC by the king of , , for the Sanctuary of Zeus and Dione at Dodoni in northwestern Greece. The plan included a theater and a stadium, but was mainly about the bouleuterion (the senate), which, together with the adjacent prytaneion (the administrative center), testified to the sanctuary’s dual character.

The was big, covering 1,250 square meters. “It was a building of impressive proportions and it was key to the sanctuary’s role as a political center and as the seat of the Epirotic political formations in Hellenistic times. The Epirote League convened there, as did the Koinon of the Epirotes, following the abolition of the monarchy in 231 BC,” says archaeologist Hypatia Faklari from the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ioannina, referring to two important tribal alliances.

“Representatives from various Epirote tribes – such as the Molossians, the Chaonians and the Thesprotians – would gather here to make decisions about the region’s future,” she adds.

The Culture Ministry recently announced a plan to restore and showcase the bouleuterion.

More: https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1276384/ancient-building-symbolizing-tribal-unity-to-get-facelift/

31/07/2025

Inspiring stories from Greece, ancient and modern!

"Folk-tales from Greece" is a two-volume edition with twelve folk tales selected from the treasure-house of modern Greek tradition. (➤ "Folk-tales from Greece I": http://sigmapublications.com/flk_en_en1.html ➤ "Folk-tales from Greece II": http://sigmapublications.com/flk_en_en2.html)

"Aesop's Fables and Jokes by Ierocles" presents the fables in their original simple form and aims not only to entertain the reader but to give him a closer experience of this unique and, one might add, immortal form of the written word: http://www.sigmapublications.com/cls_en_en1.html

23/07/2025

The iconic 2,700-year-old $Kore of Thera statue has returned to $Santorini’s renovated Archaeological Museum, now protected by a groundbreaking anti-seismic base that can withstand magnitude 8.0 earthquakes.

The 2.48-meter Archaic sculpture, weighing 500 kilograms and carved from Naxian marble, inaugurates “Kykladitisses: Untold Stories of Women in the Cyclades.”

The innovative support system, designed by Athens’ National Technical University under Professor Emeritus Vlasis Koumousis, uses kinetic energy and friction to absorb seismic forces while requiring minimal marble intervention.

The €750,000 museum renovation preserves architect Konstantinos Dekavallas’ 1960s modernist design while adding contemporary infrastructure.

New glass installations create visual perspectives, and specially designed windows block visual pollution from Santorini’s uncontrolled tourism while maintaining controlled Cycladic lighting through lateral skylights.

This marks the first pan-Cycladic exhibition ever organized, featuring 180 masterpieces spanning prehistory to recent centuries.

Culture Minister Lina Mendoni noted advances in anti-seismic technology since the first base was created for Praxiteles’ Hermes 25 years ago. The exhibition runs until October 31.

Source: https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1272990/the-kore-of-thera-returns-home/

13/07/2025

Plan to or want to learn more about the gods and myths of Classical Greece?

Our series has you covered, with 8 pocketbooks guiding through the best and most famous of the stories: http://www.sigmapublications.com/mth_en_en0.html

Also available in:
➤ French: https://www.sigmapublications.com/mth_en_fr0.html
➤ German: https://www.sigmapublications.com/mth_en_ge0.html
➤ Russian: https://www.sigmapublications.com/mth_en_ru0.html

11/07/2025

The new Digital Guide of the Acropolis Museum

📱Using your personal smart devices, the Museum invites you to explore its permanent collections in an interactive and user-friendly way, enriching your experience within the exhibition areas.

What the App Offers:
→ Real-time object recognition
→ Short audio tour featuring 30 selected exhibits (1 hour).
→ Long audio tour featuring 60 selected exhibits (2 hours).
→ A family-friendly tour designed as a fun, engaging exploration game for parents and kids (90 minutes).

Languages: Greek / English + automatic translation into 29 languages, available in text or voice format via artificial intelligence.

More: https://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/digital-guide

26/06/2025

The full moon, known as a “Flower Moon” rises behind the Temple of in Cape , near , Greece

[May 12, 2025. Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters]

15/06/2025

"Oedipus - The Tragedies": http://sigmapublications.com/mth_en_en8.html
Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/9604250744/

The whole tragic story of , seen through the prism of the four great classical tragedies (chiefly by ), each taking up where the previous one leaves off: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, The Seven Against and . These are followed by the war of the Epigoni. This last volume in the series closes with one final myth, that of the , after which the curtain falls suddenly and unexpectedly on Greek mythology.

05/06/2025

David M. Pritchard (University of Queensland, Australia) on the Great :

❝The Olympic Games immediately spring to mind when people think about sport in ancient Greece. This is easy to understand because these games are what has inspired our modern Olympics. The ancient Greeks celebrated their Olympics for a truly staggering 1,000 years. Their games attracted sportsmen from the 1,000 Greek microstates of the Mediterranean basin. Those Olympics, like ours, were the world’s largest event.

Our focus on this four-yearly festival in honor of Zeus, who was the ruler of the gods, is thus perfectly understandable.

Yet what most people do not realize is that the Olympics were only one aspect of sport in ancient Greece. Often overlooked is that these games were part of a periodos or circuit of four international sporting festivals. The other three games in this circuit took place at Corinth, Nemea and Delphi. Each of Greece’s 1,000 microstates also staged their own sporting festivals. We know of many hundreds of these local games.

Traditional education also included classes for the events that were common to all games. Therefore, ancient Greek sport was both a competitive and educational activity.

By far the largest local games of ancient Greece was the Great Panathenaea. Ancient democratic Athens staged this sporting festival every four years in honor of its chief deity, Athena, who was a daughter of Zeus. Local as it was, the Great Panathenaea was, in important ways, as great as the Olympics.❞

More: https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1268886/the-games-of-democratic-athens-were-as-great-as-the-ancient-olympics/

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