Programme
➤ 25 May 2026 | 16:00 – 17:30 | First Cemetery of Athens
Guided walk “The Poets’ Graves — The Greek Language Engraved in Memory”
A special guided walk through the graves of poets and writers at the First Cemetery of Athens, where literature encounters public memory and funerary inscriptions become precious traces of the Greek language through time.
The tour approaches the cemetery as an open cultural landscape and as a unique “anthology” of inscriptions: from archaic expressions and learned epitaphs to deeply moving dedications, personal testimonies, and even unexpected moments of subtle humour. Through monuments, words, and the stories attached to them, participants will explore the many forms of the Greek language, as well as the different ways society remembers its men and women of letters.
The route presents the graves of important poets and literary figures, the forms and symbolism of their funerary monuments, as well as the stories and “afterlives” associated with their memory and posthumous reputation.
The activity is addressed to secondary education teachers, within the framework of the blended-learning training programme “Teaching Greek Language and Literature in Lower and Upper Secondary Education.”
➤ 24 May 2026 | 17:00 – 18:30 | Third Cemetery of Athens
Guided tour “Remembrance Route 1940–1944”
A guided tour dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Occupation, famine, executions, and war, presented within the framework of the This is Athens City Festival.
The tour explores the historical landscape of the Third Cemetery of Athens and the traces of World War II preserved within it, highlighting the cemetery’s role as a place of collective memory and historical testimony.
More information is available here: This is Athens City Festival – A Remembrance Route for Those Who Didn’t Make It (1940–1944)
