A Pocket Guide to GreeceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 92 pages |
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... islands and mountains . They straddle the blue waters of the Aegean and Ionian Seas . Greece has a glorious history and a friendly people . Its climate and geography offer unbelievable variations . Greece is not a large country , nor ...
... islands and mountains . They straddle the blue waters of the Aegean and Ionian Seas . Greece has a glorious history and a friendly people . Its climate and geography offer unbelievable variations . Greece is not a large country , nor ...
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... island of Crete was already the center of a flourish- ing civilization around the shores of the Aegean , when the early Greeks , who were simple herdsmen , wandered into the peninsula around 1500 B. C. On Crete they found magnificent ...
... island of Crete was already the center of a flourish- ing civilization around the shores of the Aegean , when the early Greeks , who were simple herdsmen , wandered into the peninsula around 1500 B. C. On Crete they found magnificent ...
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... island of Rhodes . and in the following centuries , when democracy was all but dead , it remained an ideal that never died . On the Acropolis in Athens you will see the ruins of temples that are still beautiful . The most magnificent is ...
... island of Rhodes . and in the following centuries , when democracy was all but dead , it remained an ideal that never died . On the Acropolis in Athens you will see the ruins of temples that are still beautiful . The most magnificent is ...
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... with laurel and received great honor in their home cities . The ancient Greeks had a passion for freedom - so. Democritus was the first to study the science of atoms . Fishing village on the island of Hydra off the Greek. 15.
... with laurel and received great honor in their home cities . The ancient Greeks had a passion for freedom - so. Democritus was the first to study the science of atoms . Fishing village on the island of Hydra off the Greek. 15.
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... and Queen Frederika . The Prime Minister is Field Marshal Alexander Papagos . THE LAND AND THE CLIMATE " The isles of Greece. Fishing village on the island of Hydra off the Greek coast . The Isles of Greece : Scenes from Euboea ( left. 17.
... and Queen Frederika . The Prime Minister is Field Marshal Alexander Papagos . THE LAND AND THE CLIMATE " The isles of Greece. Fishing village on the island of Hydra off the Greek coast . The Isles of Greece : Scenes from Euboea ( left. 17.
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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.