Michael Llewellyn Smith

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Athens: A Cultural HistoryPaperback, 1 March 2004

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Part of Series
Interlink Cultural Histories
Part of Series
Cities of the Imagination
Print Length
256 pages
Language
EnglishGreek, Modern (after 1453)
Publisher
Interlink Books
Date Published
1 Mar 2004
ISBN-10
1566565405
ISBN-13
9781566565400

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Modern Athens is a bustling, overgrown city, continually coming to terms with its illustrious past. Dominated by the Parthenon, the world-famous symbol of classical antiquity, it has been touched by every aspect of Greece's turbulent history, suffering invasions and occupations, sieges, division and dictatorship, and has grown dramatically into a metropolis of four million people. Mixing old and new, the Greek capital is a treasure house of eastern Orthodox and western culture, rich in the visual arts, architecture and poetry. Michael 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. - The city of visitors: treasure hunters and Philhellenes; Byron and Chateaubriand; Thackeray and Mark Twain; Freud, Virigina Woolf and Winston Churchill. - The city of Olympians: host of the first modern Games of 1896 and the Olympiad of 2004; the revival of the Olympic idea. - The city of Athenians: classical soldiers and thinkers; poets, politicians and princes; migrants and refugees from Greece and beyond.

Product Details

Author:
Michael Llewellyn Smith
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 March 2004
Dimensions:
20.27 x 13.46 x 1.68 cm
ISBN-10:
1566565405
ISBN-13:
9781566565400
Language:
English
Greek, Modern (after 1453)
Location:
Northampton, MA
Pages:
256
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Weight:
349.27 gm

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