Open-Air Cinemas
In the 1960s, over 700 open-air cinemas operated in Greece, with more than 300 flourishing in the Athens area alone. By 1993, this number has been slashed to 38 in Athens, two in Piraeus and one in Thessaloniki.
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The Centenary Canal
Later this month celebrations will mark the 1893 opening of the Corinth Canal which realized a dream 2500 years old to connect the Adriatic with the Eastern Mediterranean.
Farming the Future Class of 1993
“No sales pitch is needed once people have seen the place.” The spell cast on all visitors to the American Farm School at Thessaloniki more importantly inspires its graduates to transform the agricultural future of the country.
City of Trees and Billboards
It was that purveyor of saccharine verse Joyce Kilmer who thought he would never see a poem lovely as a tree. But Odgen Nash’s parody of it proves that Athens’ central optical experience today was well-known in America half a century ago.
In the Eye of Venice
The great seaside castles of Methone and Korone in the southwest Peloponnese were known as “gli occhi di Venezia”.
Embarkation for Kythera
Favored by rococo painters and poets as the birthplace of the Goddess of Love, it is still almost a magical island “lying in the realm of dreams” according to the archaeological couple who will be digging there this summer.
George Papanikolaou: The Good Anonymous Doctor
Only a handful of the millions of women who owe their lives to the internationally accepted Pap test are aware that it was named after the Greek doctor who pioneered it.
The Shrine of Helen and Menelaos
Just 20 years ago this month definitive British excavations began, but scholars are still divided on identifying the Menelaion site as the Spartan palace connected with Helen of Troy. It does appear likely, however, that she and Menelaos were buried there.
The Castles of Navarino
The Old Castle, built by the Crusaders, is more imposing, but the new Castle is more fun, and soon it’s to become an important Marine Antiquities Museum
Macedonia’s Early Kings
Controversy over the Greekness of Macedonia from ancient politicians to Victorian scholars mainly sprang from a bias for or against kings. Yet its particular and characteristic institution of kingship was Macedonia’s principal contribution to history.
