Athens: A Cultural and Literary HistoryMichael Llewellyn Smith describes the history and culture of Athens, site of the 2004 Olympic Games and city of monuments enduring, purged and restored. Exploring its streets and squares, he reveals layers of Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine history, elegant Bavarian neoclassical buildings, and a modern city of concrete and glass, metro and tram. |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MARKETS Kiosks Holes in THE GROUND SOUND | 7 |
CHAPTER | 31 |
CHAPTER THREE | 48 |
LANDSCAPING THE ACROPOLIS | 58 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 75 |
CHAPTER | 87 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 101 |
CHAPTER NINE | 127 |
CHAPTER | 146 |
OLYMPIC ATHENS | 163 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 177 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 194 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 208 |
APPENDIX | 221 |
APPENDIX | 238 |
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Acropolis Museum Agora ancient antiquities archaeological architect architecture Asia Minor Athenian Athens's Athina Attica became British Embassy building built Byron Byzantine churches café capital cars cathedral cemetery central Athens centre century city of Athens classical Constantine Constantine Karamanlis Constantinople Constitution Square cultural Cycladic early Ermou Street excavation forces foreign funeral George German Greece Greece's Greek Hadrian Hellenic Herod Atticus hill Hymettus Kaisariani Karamanlis Kerameikos King Kiphissia Kolonaki landscape later lived look Lycabettus Makriyiannis Marathon marble Maroussi metro modern city Monastiraki monuments National Nauplion neoclassical nineteenth nineteenth-century occupied Olympic Games Omonia Omonia Square Otho Ottoman Palace Panathenaic Stadium park Parthenon sculptures pavements Peloponnese Pericles period Phaleron Piraeus Plaka poet political prime minister refugees Roman ruins Seferis statue stone Street temple temple of Hephaestus theatre Theotokas took town travellers Tricoupis Turkish Turks Vasilissis Sophias Avenue Venizelos Vikelas visitors walk walls wrote Zappeion