Συντάκτης: Theodoros Karasavvas

Ancient Greece’s history is chock-full of heroic figures, glorious wars, and countless contributions to the world in various disciplines. These contributions have impressed and stimulated the minds of generations of people worldwide for more than two thousand years. However, there were events that occurred that were pretty shameful, especially for a superb civilization such as the ancient Greek. One such shameful event was the Peloponnesian War, arguably the most catastrophic and disastrous civil war in antiquity, which transformed ancient Greece from a cultural capital into a poor and decadent place….READ MORE

Soon after winning the first modern-day Olympic marathon at the 1896 Summer Games, the newly crowned champion was accused of cheating. Some of the biggest sporting powerhouses at the time — France, Australia and the United States — couldn’t accept that their well-trained athletes had lost to an unknown water carrier from Athens, so they accused him of covering part of the course by carriage. But the allegations against Spyridon “Spyros” Louis were totally unfounded, and the young Greek and only competitor to ever run a marathon in a fustanella — a traditional skirtlike garment worn by men in the Balkans — would go on to become a sporting icon….READ MORE

According to Wikipedia and most contemporary dictionaries social media consists of computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share, or exchange information, ideas, and images/videos in virtual communities and networks. However, and as we all know, wherever human activity is involved there’s often jealousy, violence, craziness, and many more “nice” attributes of humankind. In this list we take a closer look at 11 cases where social media became the reason or served as the tool for some crazy or cruel people to commit murder….READ MORE

Houses in film and TV are not normal. Sure, you could argue that some of them are real locations, but they rarely depict everyday homes that everyday people actually live in. Rarely. But that’s not a bad thing. See, if they are to be memorable and entertaining pieces to the whole production package then they can’t be normal. Normal is boring. So it should come as no surprise that houses in films and TV productions tend to be a bit larger than life. Even small dwellings like apartments tend to have a certain air of superiority….READ MORE

In what might be one of the worst years in terms of the passing of major entertainment and celebrity figures, 2016 continues to take from us one icon after another. After David Bowie, Alan Rickman, and Prince most recently, we’re in the sad position today to say good-bye to another great personality who made our world a better and brighter place: humanitarian, activist, and boxing legend Muhammad Ali. The boy who was born Cassius Clay and ended up Muhammad Ali left us late Friday after suffering for years from Parkinson’s disease….READ MORE

According to the academic definition of the term, “popular culture” is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid-20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. However, here at TCmag we kind of disagree with the aforementioned definition since we tend to believe that “pop culture” dates back to antiquity and revolves around anything that can brainwash the masses to a particular extent for specific purposes, such as consumerism and cultural propaganda….READ MORE

Obesity has always been an issue, even from antiquity, but in recent times it has reached epidemic proportions. For that matter, many scientists and doctors refer to it as the plague of the twenty-first century. What makes this issue even worse is that in the West, especially in the United States, political correctness has seemingly restrained the freedom for a much needed discourse over the ills and dangers of this epidemic. Most people know that it’s not healthy, yet few know that it can lead to death….READ MORE

Many of us grew up watching Looney Tunes comedy shorts (produced by Warner Bros.) and for some special reason most of us continue to love them even as adults. What’s even more amazing is that millions of kids today love Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Sylvester, Duffy Duck, and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang just as much as children loved them back in the 1930s when they were first created. Though we can name many reasons why this is so, the only sure thing is that the pure joy and laughter that these magical characters offer will uplift everyone’s spirit, regardless of age, gender, or race, for as long as they’re around….READ MORE

The human body is an evolutionary marvel. It hosts the most intelligent brain on this planet (our brains can even hold up to five times more information the the Encyclopedia Britannica…yikes), our bones are-pound for pound-stronger than some steels, and we are the best long-distance runners out of any animal.

But for being such an extraordinary living being the human possess a body that hosts an incredible amount of things that make no sense. For example, what’s the deal with male nipples. They serve no purpose, their comically unsightly, and can be sensitively painful (titty twisters anyone?)….READ MORE

Since the early ‘90s there’s been a trend in the film industry, which continues to this day and seems to be expanding at light speed. It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that since the year 2000 there has been at least one (if not more) film every year with a superhero and today in TCmag we are evaluating some of the best portrayals in such films, with our only criteria being the awesomeness of the actor/actress portraying the superhero or villain…READ MORE