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[...]"Patmos treasures of the monastery" contains chapters on the various kinds of works of art housed in the monastery from the byzantine and modern greek popular traditions, and also on the rare manuscripts and valuable editions in the library, the richest in the Aegean. These chapters, each lavishly illustrated, deal with the architecture of the fortress-like complex of the monastery, the outstanding wall paintings and icons, the masterpieces of gold-embroidery and church silver, the exquisite miniatures in the manuscripts, and the other treasures in the library and the...

Edward Lear first visited Corfu in 1848 and the island seems to have made a deep impression οn him. At all events, he returned in 1855, after further travels in Greece, Albania, Egypt and elsewhere; and for the next years Corfu was to provide him with the nearest he got to at least a winter base until he finally settled at San Remo in 1870. Lear's Corfu years coincide with the last years of the British Protectorate (the Ionian Islands were ceded to Greece in 1864 ); and his letters and journals written οn Corfu, from which the text of this book is composed, form a commentar...

A distant, forgotten continent in the dawn of time...Its name became a legend, its history was lost somewhere between truth and fantasy...In this unique, authentic recount, pages from the daily life of Atlantis come to light for the first time... Days of unprecedented well-being, as well as moral decline...A time of unequalled technical achievements but also of a softening of the morals...Solon the Athenian and Archimedes having pre-existed - in different time periods - in this legendary continent, enlighten us about all these, until now unknown matters of the Atlantean civ...