Welcome to ODYSSEUS, the WWW server of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

It is not possible to appraise Greek Culture as a whole, through a computer screen. Nevertheless, being aware of the force and the potentialities of new technologies, we tried to squeeze in this program the millennia of artistry, the centuries of outstanding art, the achievements of the human spirit, the routes on which the western civilization strode in order to reach its current form.

We tried to give you only a fraction of this great adventure that is called Greek Culture, from the antiquity up to our days. This fraction though is going to get larger and larger every day as we will keep on enriching our program with new data.

The name we gave our server is "ODYSSEUS" because we believe that he, the greatest of all voyagers, is the most representative Greek of all. He is also the character most apt to lead your steps to the fascinating quest you just start.