Eumenes, Attalus I and Attalus II, the Hellenistic rulers of Pergamon, in Asia Minor, looked to the West for inspiration and education. The Pergamene link with Athens enriched both the Hellenic capital and the eastern “pretender”.
Once again on Christmas Day this year in Vitylo in Mani, male members of a clan claiming descent from the great Florentine family will be sharing a secret undisclosed for over 500 years. Beforehand, however, the secret-sharers celebrate a Mass.
Many years had gone by since my last visit to Santa Claus at the North Pole, so I decided I would make another trip last month and find out what goodies he was preparing for us this Christmas.
Sacred to Pan, lethal to Aeschylus and possessed of an indescribable voice, the lovesick tortoise of Greece has been around since before the Ice Age.
Suzanne La Follette found the Grande Bretagne “first class”, the Ilissos as dry as Wawawai Creek, and the Pnyx “the damndest arrangement” she’d ever seen. This visitor from Washington State wrote home to say the view from the Acropolis would have taken her breath away if the wind had left any to be taken.
On the west coast of Corfu is an 18 hole, par 72 golf course, open through November. Beautifully landscaped, with treelined fairways (and sandtraps) the course is attracting more and more international sportsmen… and golfing ornithologists.
The sane Tzannetakis government produced for the first time in more years than one would like to remember an air of national stability.
The III International Congress on Thera and the Aegean World reopened the debate on just when Thera’s volcano erupted, how long the event lasted, and what the ramifications were for the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean.
In mythology captured by Heracles, this southwestern site was fortified by the Akarnanians in the sixth century B.C. and later by Philip V of Macedon, whose architectural additions form the ‘three hearts’ of the castle. West German and Athenian archaeologists begin excavating this fall.
