A Pocket Guide to GreeceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 92 pages |
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... Italy , Syracuse in Sicily , and Marseille in France got their start as Greek colonies . 10 100 The city - state of Athens was a prosperous commercial. The Parthenon , 2,500 - year - old temple on Acropolis at Athens . Democritus was the ...
... Italy , Syracuse in Sicily , and Marseille in France got their start as Greek colonies . 10 100 The city - state of Athens was a prosperous commercial. The Parthenon , 2,500 - year - old temple on Acropolis at Athens . Democritus was the ...
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... Italy until 1947. Rhodes has excellent hotels and good highways . 1 THE LAND AND THE CLIMATE In spite of its. Islet near Corfu ( left ) and scene from a castle on Rhodes . Rice grows on recently reclaimed wasteland near Salonika . 22.
... Italy until 1947. Rhodes has excellent hotels and good highways . 1 THE LAND AND THE CLIMATE In spite of its. Islet near Corfu ( left ) and scene from a castle on Rhodes . Rice grows on recently reclaimed wasteland near Salonika . 22.
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... these mounts are monasteries . Until recently , the only way to gain access to them was in a high basket hoisted and lowered by monks by means of a winch . 333 43 ITALY ALBANIA PINDUS MTS . Corfu Joannina YUGOSLAVIA Kastoria MACEDONIA.
... these mounts are monasteries . Until recently , the only way to gain access to them was in a high basket hoisted and lowered by monks by means of a winch . 333 43 ITALY ALBANIA PINDUS MTS . Corfu Joannina YUGOSLAVIA Kastoria MACEDONIA.
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United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division. ITALY ALBANIA PINDUS MTS . Corfu Joannina YUGOSLAVIA Kastoria MACEDONIA Kezani MT . OLYMPUS BUL Salonika Gulf of Salonica Larissa Volos Trikkala Lamia Spor Khalkis Ko Ithaca ...
United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division. ITALY ALBANIA PINDUS MTS . Corfu Joannina YUGOSLAVIA Kastoria MACEDONIA Kezani MT . OLYMPUS BUL Salonika Gulf of Salonica Larissa Volos Trikkala Lamia Spor Khalkis Ko Ithaca ...
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... Italians , and Bulgarians . No other soldier in Europe has been fighting as steadily since 1940 . The fame of Grecian arms dates back to antiquity . In 490 B. C. , a hundred thousand Persians , during the reign of Darius , invaded ...
... Italians , and Bulgarians . No other soldier in Europe has been fighting as steadily since 1940 . The fame of Grecian arms dates back to antiquity . In 490 B. C. , a hundred thousand Persians , during the reign of Darius , invaded ...
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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.