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Sophocles. Aeschylus. Euripides. Aristophanes. Their plays are still produced today -and have inspired countless playwrigths through the centuries. DramaExpress puts Greek drama at your fingertips with these capsule guides to plots and characters. Written in plain English, these shirtpocket-size guides contain all the information you need to enjoy a performance or simply brush up on the ancient masterpieces. Each series is illustrated by a different artist and make a perfect gift or collectible. Each booklet features biographical information about the playwright and...

Sophocles. Aeschylus. Euripides. Aristophanes. Their plays are still produced today -and have inspired countless playwrigths through the centuries. DramaExpress puts Greek drama at your fingertips with these capsule guides to plots and characters. Written in plain English, these shirtpocket-size guides contain all the information you need to enjoy a performance or simply brush up on the ancient masterpieces. Each series is illustrated by a different artist and make a perfect gift or collectible. Each booklet features biographical information about the playwright and...

Sophocles. Aeschylus. Euripides. Aristophanes. Their plays are still produced today -and have inspired countless playwrigths through the centuries. DramaExpress puts Greek drama at your fingertips with these capsule guides to plots and characters. Written in plain English, these shirtpocket-size guides contain all the information you need to enjoy a performance or simply brush up on the ancient masterpieces. Each series is illustrated by a different artist and make a perfect gift or collectible. Each booklet features biographical information about the playwright and...

Sophocles. Aeschylus. Euripides. Aristophanes. Their plays are still produced today - and have inspired countless playwrigths through the centuries. DramaExpress puts Greek drama at your fingertips with these capsule guides to plots and characters. Written in plain English, these shirtpocket-size guides contain all the information you need to enjoy a performance or simply brush up on the ancient masterpieces. Each series is illustrated by a different artist and make a perfect gift or collectible. Each booklet features biographical information about the playwright an...

Sophocles. Aeschylus. Euripides. Aristophanes. Their plays are still produced today - and have inspired countless playwrigths through the centuries. DramaExpress puts Greek drama at your fingertips with these capsule guides to plots and characters. Written in plain English, these shirtpocket-size guides contain all the information you need to enjoy a performance or simply brush up on the ancient masterpieces. Each series is illustrated by a different artist and make a perfect gift or collectible. Each booklet features biographical information about the playwright an...

Sophocles. Aeschylus. Euripides. Aristophanes. Their plays are still produced today - and have inspired countless playwrigths through the centuries. DramaExpress puts Greek drama at your fingertips with these capsule guides to plots and characters. Written in plain English, these shirtpocket-size guides contain all the information you need to enjoy a performance or simply brush up on the ancient masterpieces. Each series is illustrated by a different artist and make a perfect gift or collectible. Each booklet features biographical information about the playwright an...

Crete is not just a Greek island. For millennia, Crete has been a center of Greek culture. Revel in the wonders of Minoan civilization and seek inspiration from the remarkable Byzantine architecture, the striking Venetian fortifications, and breathtaking landscape. Explore the cities of Iraklio, Hania, and Rethymno. Experience the majesty of the Minoan palaces and the wild beauty of the Cretan mountains. Enjoy the exotic beaches and pristine waters at Vai, Preveli, and Elafonissi. Feel the warmth of Crete’s people and discover a world unlike any other. Concise alphabetic...

Sophocles. Aeschylus. Euripides. Aristophanes. Their plays are still produced today -and have inspired countless playwrigths through the centuries. DramaExpress puts Greek drama at your fingertips with these capsule guides to plots and characters. Written in plain English, these shirtpocket-size guides contain all the information you need to enjoy a performance or simply brush up on the ancient masterpieces. Each series is illustrated by a different artist and make a perfect gift or collectible. Each booklet features biographical information about the playwright and...

Sophocles. Aeschylus. Euripides. Aristophanes. Their plays are still produced today - and have inspired countless playwrigths through the centuries. DramaExpress puts Greek drama at your fingertips with these capsule guides to plots and characters. Written in plain English, these shirtpocket-size guides contain all the information you need to enjoy a performance or simply brush up on the ancient masterpieces. Each series is illustrated by a different artist and make a perfect gift or collectible. Each booklet features biographical information about the playwright an...

Sophocles. Aeschylus. Euripides. Aristophanes. Their plays are still produced today - and have inspired countless playwrigths through the centuries. DramaExpress puts Greek drama at your fingertips with these capsule guides to plots and characters. Written in plain English, these shirtpocket-size guides contain all the information you need to enjoy a performance or simply brush up on the ancient masterpieces. Each series is illustrated by a different artist and make a perfect gift or collectible. Each booklet features biographical information about the playwright an...

The German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the first President of the USA, George Washington, the English Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, the French writer and philosopher Voltaire, the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Italian adventurer and author Giacomo Casanova, the English actor Peter Sellers, the Greek-American actor and film director Aristotelis ('Telly') Savalas, the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, the Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Sir Alexander Fleming, the Swiss founder of the Red Cross Henry Dunant, the English writer Alexander Pope,...

Sinds de eerste decennia van de negentiende eeuw hebben archeologen uit Nederland in Griekenland gewerkt. Wetenschappers zoals Carl Vollgraff, Ferdinand de Waele en Cornells Bakhuizen wijdden een belangrijk deel van hun loopbaan aan de ontdekking en de studie van de materiele resten van het oude Griekenland. Tegenwoordig doen Nederlandse archeologen nog steeds veldwerk in Griekenland. Dit onderzoek maakt deel uit van het werk van het Nederlands Instituut in Athene, dat al de Nederlandse universitaire uitwisselingen met Griekenland coordineert. In dit boek worden diverse Ned...

Με στόχο την πληρέστερη και σφαιρικότερη δυνατόν εικόνα το ανθρώπινου παρελθόντος, η ιστορία της "Σύγχρονης παγκόσμιας εγκυκλοπαίδειας", στους τέσσερις τόμους της, επιχειρεί μία επισκόπηση, κατά χρονολογική σειρά, των γεγονότων που αναφέρονται στη δράση του ανθρώπου (κοινωνία, κρατική ενότητα, οικουμενική αυτοκρατορία). Από τις πρώτες φάσεις της προϊστορίας έως τις μέρες μας, εξετάζεται η πολιτική, στρατιωτική και διπλωματική ιστορία της ανθρωπότητας, οι μεταβολές και ο τρόπος που αυτές συνέβησαν, οι προσωπικότητες που διακρίθηκαν μεταξύ των απλών ανώνυμων ανθρώπων, τα κρά...

Greek antiquity has fascinated the British since the Renaissance and inspired numerous scholars , and travelers to visit Greece, from James Stuart and Nicholas Revett who meticulously surveyed ancient monuments and Francis Penrose who studied the Parthenon and Byzantine monuments to Arthur Evans, the driving force behind the Knossos excavation. This history of the British School at Athens, with contributions by the archaeologists who have led or worked on a wide range of innovative investigations, offers a unique look at completed and continuing fieldwork in Mediterranea...

From the late-Victorian exploits of Charles ‘Trick’ Currelly, a real-life Indiana Jones, and the dashing, peripatetic Gilbert Bagnani to a high-tech underwater search of the Aegean for lost Persian fleets, Canadian archaeologists have long played a significant part in the quest to rediscover ancient Greece. This history of the Canadian Archaeological Institute at Athens, with contributions by the archaeologists who have led or worked on a wide range of innovative investigations, offers a unique look and completed and continuing fieldwork at: Argilos, Macedonia· Kallithe...

Archaeologists from the Netherlands have been working in Greece since the early decades of the nineteenth century. Scholars such as Carl Vollgraff, Ferdinand de Waele, and Cornells Bakhuizen devoted their careers to the discovery and study of the material remains of ancient Greece. Nowadays, Dutch archaeologists still actively carry out fieldwork in various parts of Greece. These investigations are conducted under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute in Athens that coordinates all academic exchanges between Greece and the Netherlands. In this book, several archaeolog...

The story of Swedish archaeology in Greece begins long before the official inauguration of the Swedish Institute on May 10, 1948. Drawing on archival material and personal experiences, Berit Wells and Arto Penttinen narrate the adventures of 17th-century Swedish travelers and the quests of legendary figures like Sam Wide and Axel W. Persson, whose excavations at Kalaureia and Asine laid the foundations for the extensive, and often ground-breaking, work undertaken by Swedish archaeologists in Greece. Go behind the scenes of completed and ongoing fieldwork at: Asine· Dend...

1884, ottobre, Federico Halbherr sbarca a Creta, ancora in mano turca, e inizia la lunga avventura dell’archeologia italiana in Grecia, che vede nel maggio del 1909 la nascita della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene. Una storia lunga piu di 120 anni e mai interrotta che ha portato alla scoperta della grande iscrizione di Gortina, a quella dei palazzi minoici di Festos e della "villa" reale di Haghia Triada a Creta, alla scoperta della citta preistorica di Poliochni e del Cabirio a Lemno. Questo libro, scritto da coloro che hanno vissuto in prima persona questa avventu...

Wherever you live in Athens or are visiting, Cordelia Madden will introduce you to the city's shopping scene, from cutting-edge designers to fashion classics and from well-known establishments to specialty shops off the beaten track.

An essential guide to the Greek masterpieces in plain English, with information on the plot, setting, and characters as well as scene summaries and quotes.