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Remembering Thermopylae – ARGHHHH
Right. Long time, no blog. But this one is going to be a heartfelt post that may well put some noses out of joint. But it needs saying. The Greek government is issuing memorial coins for the battle of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Current events, Europe, Greece, Inventing the Past, Peloponnese, Politics
Tagged Greece, Persian Wars, Sparta, Thermopylae, White Supremacists
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Greek Treasures: ancient and modern
I just came across this opinion piece in the LA times of 26th February by James Romm, a scholar I admire greatly. But here he offers an example of highly emotional rhetoric which is historically unjustified. At the same time, his article … Continue reading
Posted in History, Inventing the Past
Tagged Ancient Athens, Greece, Greek crisis, Parthenon, Pericles, Thucydides
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Building the Parthenon
It’s time to talk about the photograph at the top of my blog. It’s part of a picture I took on the Acropolis of Athens in summer 2007: let’s call it The Parthenon Under Construction (Again). Of course, ancient buildings … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Inventing the Past
Tagged Athens, Byzantine Greece, Classicism, Greece, Ottoman Greece, Restoration, Ruins
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