Greece on Uránia

Greek Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Becomes an Escape Room About Fascist History and Zak Kostopoulos

Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 +0400

At the 61st Venice Biennale, Greece is represented by artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis with the installation Escape Room . In the Greek Pavilion, he brings together an S&M club aesthetic, the building’s 1934 history, Plato’s allegory of the cave, and the memory of Zak Kostopoulos, the Greek-American LGBT and HIV activist and drag artist known as Zackie Oh.

An Ancient Punishment for Adultery – Inserting Fish and Radish into the Anus (Rhaphanidosis)

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0700

Rhaphanidosis (ῥαφανίδωσις) in classical Athens of the fifth to fourth centuries BCE was the forcible insertion of a radish root into the anus.

What the Ancient Greeks Wrote About Homosexuality in Persia – and How Much of It Is True

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0700

The modern concepts of “homosexuality” and “heterosexuality” took shape in European medical science by the end of the 19th century. They do not apply to ancient societies. In the ancient world, sexual relations were structured not by the sex of one’s partner but by social status, age, the distribution of power, and the distinction between active and passive roles.