Hacker News with Generative AI: Greece

Greeks Are Defying an Indoor Smoking Ban (nytimes.com)
Greeks smoke more than most other Europeans, and even 14 years after Greece banned smoking in indoor public places, it is not uncommon to see people light up in bars and clubs.

Greece, Public Health, Smoking, Culture

12 points by ivewonyoung 19 days ago | 0 comments

Pre-Greek Substrate (wikipedia.org)
The pre-Greek substrate (or substratum) consists of the unknown pre-Greek language or languages (either Pre-Indo-European or other Indo-European languages) spoken in prehistoric Greece prior to the emergence of the Proto-Greek language in the region c. 3200–2200 BC, during the Early Helladic period.

Linguistics, History, Greece, Ancient History, Pre-Indo-European Languages

25 points by diodorus 66 days ago | 3 comments

Demographic decline: Greece faces alarming population collapse (euronews.com)
Empty villages, disillusioned young workers, and government officials scrambling for solutions: this is the stark reality Euronews uncovered in Greece, where the country is bracing for a major population collapse fuelled by plummeting numbers of births, mass emigration, and low fertility rates.

Demographics, Greece, Population Decline, Emigration, Fertility Rates

49 points by toomuchtodo 126 days ago | 78 comments

Greece announces new rules banning mobile phones in schools from September (euronews.com)

Greece, Education, Technology, Policy

101 points by ulrischa 139 days ago | 48 comments

Analysis of Greek prehistoric combat in full body armour (plos.org)

History, Warfare, Archaeology, Greece

51 points by bryanrasmussen 141 days ago | 23 comments

Fragments of two lost tragedies by Euripides discovered in an Egyptian papyrus (labrujulaverde.com)

Ancient History, Literature, Archaeology, Greece

59 points by bookofjoe 152 days ago | 6 comments

Greece's Six-Day Workweek Is a Recipe for Disaster (jacobin.com)