The Temples of Rhamnous
The temples of Themis the Titaness and the dread goddess, Nemesis, stood cheek by jowl on a rocky promontory overlooking the Gulf of Euboea. Today, the site, and the beach below, are accessible to city-weary Athenians.
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Solomos
THE EIRT building in Agia Paraskevi could be the setting for a Kafkaesque fairy tale.
Post Byzantine Art: The 17th – 19th Century
During the 16th and 17th centuries, two peculiarities in the art of Orthodoxy stand out increasingly. On the one hand there is a group of painters who flirt with the styles and iconography of Western art to the point of introducing oil techniques which destroy once and for all the character of the icon.
The Bishop of the Klephts
Throughout her long and fascinating history, the rugged and mountainous landscape of Greece has played host to wild robber bands, often so fierce and unruly as to be almost unmanageable even by their own leaders.
Byron at Missolonghi
The sun shone at Missolonghi on Monday, January 5, 1824. By morning the crowds of citizens and soldiers — men and women of every age — were thick along the shore, waiting for the man they reckoned their ‘delivering angel’, watching for his arrival. And then at eleven, with all eyes on it, a Speziot boat crossed the lagoon, came alongside the quay, and George Gordon Noel Byron stepped ashore.
