A Pocket Guide to GreeceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 92 pages |
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... color provide a great popular emotional outlet . Candlelight parades are held the night before Easter , a particularly impressive sight being the line of candle - bearing priests descending the winding path on Mount Lycabettus in the ...
... color provide a great popular emotional outlet . Candlelight parades are held the night before Easter , a particularly impressive sight being the line of candle - bearing priests descending the winding path on Mount Lycabettus in the ...
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... color . They take their ouzo in moderation , eating little snacks ( me zedes ) along with it . You rarely see drunkenness in Greece . Several of the tavernas in the Plaka area of Athens. You can visit some restaurant kitchens to choose ...
... color . They take their ouzo in moderation , eating little snacks ( me zedes ) along with it . You rarely see drunkenness in Greece . Several of the tavernas in the Plaka area of Athens. You can visit some restaurant kitchens to choose ...
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... color slides and movies . temples , as well as the more modern churches , make fine subjects . The country folk have colorful costumes , and on the occasion of special religious or national holidays , the activity in the villages is ...
... color slides and movies . temples , as well as the more modern churches , make fine subjects . The country folk have colorful costumes , and on the occasion of special religious or national holidays , the activity in the villages is ...
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... color you will probably find it necessary to mail exposed film back to the United States or to Western Europe . It will also be very expensive to buy film and photographic equipment on the Greek market , so take a good supply with you ...
... color you will probably find it necessary to mail exposed film back to the United States or to Western Europe . It will also be very expensive to buy film and photographic equipment on the Greek market , so take a good supply with you ...
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... color . They then link hands and dance around the main square singing their own dance tune . The most famous of the Greek folk dances are known as the Kalamatianos and Mandilaki . One of the dancers leads , singing and waving a ...
... color . They then link hands and dance around the main square singing their own dance tune . The most famous of the Greek folk dances are known as the Kalamatianos and Mandilaki . One of the dancers leads , singing and waving 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.