It may be the very lack of real ancient remains that contributes to the city’s occupying such a substantial place in the imagination. Even after the disappearance of the worlds of Cavafy and Durrell, Alexandria remains the most magically disorienting of cities.
Computer imaging technology as applied to Athens is an attempt to uncover the living memory of the place and help restore its inhabitants sense of the past.
Parliament by unanimous resolution has brought into being an organization which seeks to upgrade the Greek presence and spread the ideals of Hellenism throughout the world.
Athenians call their drinking water by the lovely word oulen. Is it not the most beautiful of ancient Greek words? Does not its sound instantly conjure up the image of babbling Arcadian brooks? Did not the great Pindar with the very first words of his first Olympic Ode sing, “Best of all things is oulen?”
Modern Hania, the Kydonia of classical times, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns on earth. This is the reason why excavations of its prehistory are so complicated and so tantalizing.
Decision-makers – that agreeable combination of sounds – are finally becoming aware of the fact that the environment can take no more vile treatment, for they see that we are ‘prisoners’ of the biosphere. Others consider their body to be their limit. It is indeed alienation that seems to have no limits.
Mainly a child-and-parent’s guide to the parks of Athens not only for the young and the young at heart, but for grown-ups interested in some unfrequented corners in this city’s inexhaustible history.
Sculptor, painter, marionette maker, and creator of contraptions, David Kennedy will show the results of his Hephestian oils in Kolonaki in April.
When Skopje recently abducted the Star of Vergina and attached it to its flag, it was in effect declaring for a Greater Slavic Macedonia.
Even if Greek objections fail at the UN and other international forums, the feud between Athens and Skopje is likely to continue for a very long time. After a possible toughening of the Greek stand, it can only be settled on a bilateral level.
