The living past of Greece : a time-traveller's tour of historic and prehistoric places
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The living past of Greece : a time-traveller's tour of historic and prehistoric places
Herbert, 1993
Rev. and updated ed
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Offers the reader a tour of some of the most interesting buildings, islands and places in Greece, including sites which best illuminate Greek history from prehistoric to Byzantine times. The authors describe over 70 sites, giving summaries of what happened there in the past.
Table of Contents
- Historical outline
- prehistoric (looking at sites at Melos, Crete, Thera and Mycenae)
- the making of Classical Greece (the great sanctuaries of Delphi, Olympia, Nemea and Delos
- the city sites of Argois
- the Aegean island cities
- the Western Isles and the Persian War battle-fields)
- Athens and late classical Greece (looking at the great monuments of Athens itself plus the temples of Attica and late Classical sanctuaries at Bassae and Epidauros)
- Greece and her conquerors (sites connected with the rise of Macedonia
- three Hellenistic sanctuaries
- two Roman sites)
- Medieval Greece (descibing the Byzantine splendour of the Orthodox churches of Greece).
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