In a growingly troubled society characterized by short-sightedness, self-indulgence, private acquisitiveness and public irresponsibility, a government backed effectively and sincerely by leading political parties proved to be an impossible dream.
Wealth was no hindrance for a lady whose charity to girls and cripples outraged medieval Athens.
In the time of Homer, it was the greatest Greek entrepot of the Eastern trade. For over a thousand years it was despised Aletria. Then it briefly bloomed as Nea Psara, a dear (if unsuccessful) project of King Otto’s. Thanks mainly to the efforts of the Swiss, Greek and American archeologists, it regained in 1970 its once renowned name.
Perpetrators of violent vendettas, rugged inhabitants of mountain fastnesses the scourge of more peaceable islanders in the lowlands, the intractable inhabitants of Sfakia have a fierce history of blood and iron. Over the centuries, the heroes’ names may have changed, but both the Venetians and Moslems met their match on the southwest coast of Crete.
If the new prime minister produces a marvel, it will be to convince his starry-eyed, pampered fellow-citizens that there are no more miracles from now on except responsibility, integrity, self-control and hard work
This otherwise beautiful and fascinating book is tragically deficient in its cartography and in fact in all the appurtenances of a serious work, having only one map, and that inadequate and wholly lacking a Table of Contents, List of Illustrations, Index, Footnotes, and even the most summary of Bibliographies.
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.
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.
