A Pocket Guide to GreeceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 92 pages |
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... Marathon Dam is low . Usually his water is turned on only three hours a day for three days a week . He has to save water in a tank on his roof or in con- tainers in his house . He certainly won't have much left for his garden . Your ...
... Marathon Dam is low . Usually his water is turned on only three hours a day for three days a week . He has to save water in a tank on his roof or in con- tainers in his house . He certainly won't have much left for his garden . Your ...
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... Khalkis Lesvos Chios Edirne Istanbul Sea of Marmara U R K E Izmir Marathon Athens Andros Samos Tinos Mykonos Cyclades Naxos Milos ecane Sea of Candia Iraklion Rhodes S Karpathos THE GREEK SOLDIER AND HIS ARMY " Earth , render.
... Khalkis Lesvos Chios Edirne Istanbul Sea of Marmara U R K E Izmir Marathon Athens Andros Samos Tinos Mykonos Cyclades Naxos Milos ecane Sea of Candia Iraklion Rhodes S Karpathos THE GREEK SOLDIER AND HIS ARMY " Earth , render.
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... Marathon by a small force of Athenians . On the battlefield of Marathon , about 26 miles from Athens , you can still see a high mound under which the Athenian dead were buried . ( Our modern long - distance race is called a marathon ...
... Marathon by a small force of Athenians . On the battlefield of Marathon , about 26 miles from Athens , you can still see a high mound under which the Athenian dead were buried . ( Our modern long - distance race is called a marathon ...
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... Marathon , Cape Sounion , and Corinth . In the summer in Athens concerts are given in the ruins of the 2,000 - year - old Herodus Atticus Theater at the foot of the Acropolis . Occasionally , at historic sites such as Delphi and ...
... Marathon , Cape Sounion , and Corinth . In the summer in Athens concerts are given in the ruins of the 2,000 - year - old Herodus Atticus Theater at the foot of the Acropolis . Occasionally , at historic sites such as Delphi and ...
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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.