A Pocket Guide to GreeceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 92 pages |
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... .. Appendix : 28 + 85 30 47 53 67 Vital Statistics . Weights and Measures . Language Glossary- 888 68 70 72 Important Greek Gods and Goddesses___ inside back cover A POCKET GUIDE TO GREECE INTRODUCTION " Greece appears to iii.
... .. Appendix : 28 + 85 30 47 53 67 Vital Statistics . Weights and Measures . Language Glossary- 888 68 70 72 Important Greek Gods and Goddesses___ inside back cover A POCKET GUIDE TO GREECE INTRODUCTION " Greece appears to iii.
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... important part in their lives . Our words " gymnasium " and " stadium " are really Greek words . Every four years Greeks came from 11 + 1V = VI X125 133 Pythagoras developed the theory that the world is round . all over the country to ...
... important part in their lives . Our words " gymnasium " and " stadium " are really Greek words . Every four years Greeks came from 11 + 1V = VI X125 133 Pythagoras developed the theory that the world is round . all over the country to ...
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... important source of income to the Greek nation as a whole . You will find that the Greeks love music . They have catchy tunes with an Oriental flavor . The city folk also know American popular music as well as the latest dance tunes ...
... important source of income to the Greek nation as a whole . You will find that the Greeks love music . They have catchy tunes with an Oriental flavor . The city folk also know American popular music as well as the latest dance tunes ...
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... important role the Orthodox Church plays in the life of the people . You can hardly drive a mile along a country road without sighting a tiny roadside chapel or ayasma . These little whitewashed churches , hardly big enough in most ...
... important role the Orthodox Church plays in the life of the people . You can hardly drive a mile along a country road without sighting a tiny roadside chapel or ayasma . These little whitewashed churches , hardly big enough in most ...
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... importance to the Greeks than Christmas . The " Carnival " season preceding Lent calls for much gaiety and all - night dancing . One sees little girls of five running around dressed like grown women and smeared with lipstick and other ...
... importance to the Greeks than Christmas . The " Carnival " season preceding Lent calls for much gaiety and all - night dancing . One sees little girls of five running around dressed like grown women and smeared with lipstick and other ...
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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.