A Pocket Guide to GreeceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 92 pages |
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... 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 called " the first great civilization of the West- ern World . " Much ...
... 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 called " the first great civilization of the West- ern World . " Much ...
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United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division. HOMER SOCRATES PERICLES ARISTOTLE Famous Greeks who influenced Western civilization . edge of classical Greek could read some modern Greek ,
United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division. HOMER SOCRATES PERICLES ARISTOTLE Famous Greeks who influenced Western civilization . edge of classical Greek could read some modern Greek ,
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... man and the universe and of man's relation to it . Their inquiries into these things were the beginnings of Western philosophy and science . The ideas of Socrates , Plato , Monasteries of Meteora ( left ) , and Byzantine church. 122.
... man and the universe and of man's relation to it . Their inquiries into these things were the beginnings of Western philosophy and science . The ideas of Socrates , Plato , Monasteries of Meteora ( left ) , and Byzantine church. 122.
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... Western power , Rome . Many of the ancient Greek cities were rebuilt and restored by the Romans , so that you will often find both Latin and Greek letters on monuments . This is true at Olympia and Delos , to mention only two places ...
... Western power , Rome . Many of the ancient Greek cities were rebuilt and restored by the Romans , so that you will often find both Latin and Greek letters on monuments . This is true at Olympia and Delos , to mention only two places ...
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... Western or Roman Catholic Church . Now there are separate Orthodox churches in Russia , the Balkan countries , and the lands bordering the Eastern Mediterranean . There are some religious minorities in Greece . Perhaps 3.5. Youths in ...
... Western or Roman Catholic Church . Now there are separate Orthodox churches in Russia , the Balkan countries , and the lands bordering the Eastern Mediterranean . There are some religious minorities in Greece . Perhaps 3.5. Youths in ...
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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.