A Pocket Guide to GreeceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 92 pages |
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United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division. Delphi , seat of the great temple and oracle of Apollo . Overlooking Athens stands the majestic Acropolis . iv.
United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division. Delphi , seat of the great temple and oracle of Apollo . Overlooking Athens stands the majestic Acropolis . iv.
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... Athens and Salonika , the two largest cities . The fastest train takes all day - or all night . Only by air do you appreciate how really small the country is . Commercial planes can go to the farthest point in one or two hours . A jet ...
... Athens and Salonika , the two largest cities . The fastest train takes all day - or all night . Only by air do you appreciate how really small the country is . Commercial planes can go to the farthest point in one or two hours . A jet ...
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... have and start afresh in forming opinions about the Greece and the Greeks of today . A FEW FACTS " It was Greek to me . Overlooking Athens stands the majestic Acropolis . Walls of Mycenae , which flourished from 1400 to 1100. 2.
... have and start afresh in forming opinions about the Greece and the Greeks of today . A FEW FACTS " It was Greek to me . Overlooking Athens stands the majestic Acropolis . Walls of Mycenae , which flourished from 1400 to 1100. 2.
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... Athens , you will find that the smallest ticket is for 20,000 drachmas and , if you are lucky , you may leave the track with a million drachmas in your pocket . The drachma's value was cut in half in terms of dollars in April 1953 , and ...
... Athens , you will find that the smallest ticket is for 20,000 drachmas and , if you are lucky , you may leave the track with a million drachmas in your pocket . The drachma's value was cut in half in terms of dollars in April 1953 , and ...
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... Athens , was built 2,500 years ago . At that time , our ancestors in Western Europe were just emerging from their caves . There were other civilizations as old and older than that of the ancient Greeks , but theirs has rightly been ...
... Athens , was built 2,500 years ago . At that time , our ancestors in Western Europe were just emerging from their caves . There were other civilizations as old and older than that of the ancient Greeks , but theirs has rightly been ...
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Acropolis American ancient Greek areas of Greece Army Athenian Athens Athens area Attica city-state civilization color Constitution Square Corfu Corinth Corinth Canal costumes Crete dance Delos Delphi developed drachmas drams Easter Edirne EE-ko-see EE-me EN-a English Greek famous film fish frontier goats Goddess Greece's Greek National Greek servicemen Greek soldier Greek TEE Gulf of Corinth Ionian Sea Iraklion isles of Greece ka-lee Kavalla Khalkis KHER-et-e Kifissia kilometer King Paul land Larissa Macedonia Marathon meters miles modern Greek monasteries Mount Athos Mount Lycabettus mountain Museum Mycenae Mykonos noncoms NOTES NOTES NOTES olive Olympia Orthodox Church ouzo Parthenon Patras pee-ye-NEM-e Peloponnesus peninsula PO-so POO EE-ne Queen Frederika restaurant Rhodes road Royal Hellenic Salonika southern Greece Spartans stremma summer tavernas TEE EE-ne tee O-ra things Turkey Turkish United Usually villages Western wine winter word YA-soo
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Page 18 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 47 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?
Page 30 - We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis, of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and we might still have been savages and idolaters...
Page 53 - Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! Or, since that has left my breast, Keep it now, and take the rest! Hear my vow before I go, ZtoT) p,ou, ads d^aira>. By those tresses unconfined, Woo'd by each /Egean wind; By those lids whose jetty fringe Kiss thy soft cheeks...
Page 48 - For one thing is certain; there never was a great people that did not venerate the law. What gave Sparta her long supremacy among the states of Greece? What, indeed, but her inflexible — you might almost call it her blind and unreasoning — fidelity to law? "Stranger, go tell the Spartans that we lie here in obedience to their laws.