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When I was writing the first short guide to the Benaki Museum, in 1980, I had to make an almost superhuman effort to articulate a vast material into discrete chapters with a comprehensive and coherent line of reasoning. At that time the arrangement of the objects in the Museum was based on the principle of exhibition units by kind, which was, of course, completely contrary to my own views and vision. Today, after the enlargement of the Museum's premises and the radical remodeling of the original building, but above all the reorientation of the Museum's aims and the fundamen...

[...] The icons presented in this exhibition come from the Velimezis Collection, which was formed by Emillios Velimezis (1902-1946) during the years 1934-1946. The collection initially comprised approximately 90 icons from various regions of Greece, dating from the 15th to the 19th century. [...]

[...] The present album on Ai Stratis, which is a tribute of the Ministry of the Aegean and all the ministers who worked to bring it to pass, is the fruit of several years of scholarly endeavor and dedication by those who toiled with respect through the archives and other historical material. It is a precious document for researchers into the recent history of Greece and all praise is due to Vasilis Manikakis's children for keeping and protecting this rate treasure trove of our history and culture. (Nicolaos Sifounakis, from the preface of the book)

Greek art, the culminating achievement of the greek spirit, is the subject of the new monumental series published by Ekdotike Athenon. The artistic creation of hellenism during its three historical periods, antiquity, byzantium and modern times, is comprehensively presented in fifteen luxurious volumes, in which elegant texts are harmoniously combined with superb illustrations. Each volume, essentially a monograph on a specific art form, closely follows its evolution through a brilliant selection of representative works, which are typical of its various phases and trends, a...

Brief archaeological guidebook to Greece. 205 colour photographs. History, myth, archaeological sites. The picture of the most important monuments in antiquity and today.

"Aegean Islands", the first book in the series "Archaeology", produced by the MELISSA Publishing House, is a review of archaeological activity in the islands of the Archipelago from the nineteenth century to the present day, with emphasis on the most important field research, findings and finds of the last twenty years. The book aims at a comprehensive and collective assessment of the Aegean island world and its culture. This was the basic idea and it is this that we consider is the value and the contribution of the work to the contemporary bibliography, as archaeologica...

[...] The first volume in the series "Archaeology" examined the Aegean islands, excepting Euboea. I had pointed out there that this exception was dictated by the geographical peculiarity of Euboea and its dual -island and mainland- cultural physiognomy over the millennia. The second volume completes the circumnavigation of the islands, opening with the large island of Euboea in the Aegean. It then moves westwards towards the Ionian Sea, covering the southern part of the Greek Mainland, the region known today as Central Greece or Sterea Hellas. During historical times, th...

The city's history from prehistoric times, the archaic and classical periods through the byzantine era -The history of the city's buildings and most important monuments -The most important exhibits at the Acropolis Museum and the National Archaeological Museum -Reconstructions of the ancient monuments depicting how what we see now looked then.

- The history of the city's buildings and most important monuments with reconstructions so that "then" complements "now" - The most important exhibits at the Acropolis Museum and the National Archaelogical Museum

City of Intellectual achievement and democracy!

[...] The reader of the present volume draws information on what preceded the revival of the Games in Greece and abroad, on their successful organization and their global appeal, as well as on all the parameters of Greek life in that period. And of course, the reader will appreciate too the magnitude of the progress that has been made since, as well as the kinds of changes that have taken place in the natural and mandame environment of Attica in the century and more that has bassed. This book about Athens in 1896 also describes, with scholarly authority and clarity, the po...

The catalogue of Byzantine Glazed Pottery in the Benaki Museum is not one of those glossy, voluminous publications that glorify subjects of ephemeral interest. Nonetheless a delight to the eye, it is one of those books indented primary for the reader-researcher with scholarly curiosity, who seeks works of modest format and cost, and studies in the solitude of libraries.[...] Angelos Delivorrias

Greek art, the culminating achievement of the greek spirit, is the subject of the new monumental series published by Ekdotike Athenon. The artistic creation of hellenism during its three historical periods, antiquity, byzantium and modern times, is comprehensively presented in fifteen luxurious volumes, in which elegant texts are harmoniously combined with superb illustrations. Each volume, essentially a monograph on a specific art form, closely follows its evolution through a brilliant selection of representative works, which are typical of its various phases and trends, a...