A Pocket Guide to GreeceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 92 pages |
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... brief language guide , including the alphabets . It would be wise to familiarize yourself with the capital letters at once , so as to make it easier to find your way around the streets . SOME HISTORY - MOSTLY ANCIENT " The Glory that was.
... brief language guide , including the alphabets . It would be wise to familiarize yourself with the capital letters at once , so as to make it easier to find your way around the streets . SOME HISTORY - MOSTLY ANCIENT " The Glory that was.
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United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division. SOME HISTORY - MOSTLY ANCIENT " The Glory that was Greece . ' -Edgar Allen Poe You won't be able to appreciate what makes the modern Greek tick without a bird's eye view of the ...
United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division. SOME HISTORY - MOSTLY ANCIENT " The Glory that was Greece . ' -Edgar Allen Poe You won't be able to appreciate what makes the modern Greek tick without a bird's eye view of the ...
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... of books have been written on the history and the glories of ancient Greece . You can get yourself lost in learned discussions and minute archaeological detail if you try reading too many of them . But you should be generally familiar with ...
... of books have been written on the history and the glories of ancient Greece . You can get yourself lost in learned discussions and minute archaeological detail if you try reading too many of them . But you should be generally familiar with ...
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... the mainland of Greece , about 1400 B. C. , a highly developed civilization arose around Mycenae in the Peloponnesus . The. Walls of Mycenae , which flourished from 1400 to 1100 B. C. Greek ideal of feminine beauty - two famous statues of.
... the mainland of Greece , about 1400 B. C. , a highly developed civilization arose around Mycenae in the Peloponnesus . The. Walls of Mycenae , which flourished from 1400 to 1100 B. C. Greek ideal of feminine beauty - two famous statues of.
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... the Peloponnesus . The ruins of this ancient city are in one of the world's most splendid scenic sites . Here King Agamemnon reigned and planned his expedition against Troy , which was the subject of Homer's great epic , the Iliad . The ...
... the Peloponnesus . The ruins of this ancient city are in one of the world's most splendid scenic sites . Here King Agamemnon reigned and planned his expedition against Troy , which was the subject of Homer's great epic , the Iliad . The ...
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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.