Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

[...] The modern museum offers a picture far removed from the mere accumulation of artifacts side by side and the ostentatious reconstruction of monuments in the few rooms of the first building at the beginning of last century. The exhibits are not simply placed alongside each other aw autonomous works of art or scattered images from the entries of an art encyclopaedia. They are rather arranged in chronological units, organically linked together, to compose o historical novel, the pages of which cover twelve centuries over the course of the display: a museological narrativ...

Der Hugel der Akropolis (Oberstadt ) nimmt, wie bereits der Name sagt, einen herausragenden Platz uber der Stadt Athen und uber der Ebene von Attika ein. Er erreicht eine Hohe von 156 m uber dem Meeresspiegel, ist naturlich befestigt und besitzt Wasserquellen am Fub des Felsens. Die altesten Spuren menschlicher Prasenz sind am Nord- bzw .am Sudabhang des Felsens entdeckt worden und gehen bis in die neolithische Zeit zuruck (5500-3200 v. Chr.). [...] Im 6. Jh. v. Chr. forderten politische Groben wie Solon, der Tyrann Peisistratos und seine Sohne die baulichen und kunstleri...

[...] The Eridanos, a small Athenian stream, has had the good fortune, and now the ill fortune, to lie at the heart of the development of the city. Rising on Lykabettos hill, it flows both underground and above ground, crossing the historical center of the city -the "asty" of the 5th c. BC- and passing the political centers of modern and ancient Athens -the Greek Parliament and the Ancient Agora- before joining another lost river, the Ilisos. The Eridanos is an irreplaceable feature of the Attic landscape, interwoven with changes in the urban design of the city, and rich...