A Pocket Guide to GreeceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 92 pages |
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... King Minos at Knossos near Iraklion . This started off a wave of excavations that is continuing today . The written language of these people has never been deciphered . If you're good at crypto- graphic puzzles , you might take a crack ...
... King Minos at Knossos near Iraklion . This started off a wave of excavations that is continuing today . The written language of these people has never been deciphered . If you're good at crypto- graphic puzzles , you might take a crack ...
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... King Agamemnon reigned and planned his expedition against Troy , which was the subject of Homer's great epic , the Iliad . The Greeks absorbed Aegean culture and became the dominant people in the peninsula . Owing in part to the ...
... King Agamemnon reigned and planned his expedition against Troy , which was the subject of Homer's great epic , the Iliad . The Greeks absorbed Aegean culture and became the dominant people in the peninsula . Owing in part to the ...
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... King George II returned to the throne . Greece's greatest statesman during the 20th century was Eleftherios ... King left Greece when the Germans occupied the country . In 1946 , after a plebiscite , the King was again recalled to head ...
... King George II returned to the throne . Greece's greatest statesman during the 20th century was Eleftherios ... King left Greece when the Germans occupied the country . In 1946 , after a plebiscite , the King was again recalled to head ...
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... there is great diversity of opinion and a hodge - podge Ekhat ΕΚΑΝΕΣ EKAUTH King Paul of Greece at tomb of his nation's Unknown. It's a good idea to stay out of political discussions . Queen Frederika ( center , in white ) dances at. 35.
... there is great diversity of opinion and a hodge - podge Ekhat ΕΚΑΝΕΣ EKAUTH King Paul of Greece at tomb of his nation's Unknown. It's a good idea to stay out of political discussions . Queen Frederika ( center , in white ) dances at. 35.
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United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division. King Paul of Greece at tomb of his nation's Unknown Warrior . ΚΛΕΙΣΟΥΡΑΣ ΣΤΡΟΒΙΤΣΑ Π ΡΟΥΠΕΛ - ΠΕΡΙΟ EA - AAAME IN POYBIKAN A of political parties . It's very easy to start a.
United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division. King Paul of Greece at tomb of his nation's Unknown Warrior . ΚΛΕΙΣΟΥΡΑΣ ΣΤΡΟΒΙΤΣΑ Π ΡΟΥΠΕΛ - ΠΕΡΙΟ EA - AAAME IN POYBIKAN A of political parties . It's very easy to start a.
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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.