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Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to Southern Greece by : Brian De Jongh
Download or read book The Companion Guide to Southern Greece written by Brian De Jongh and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece has always possessed a special significance for the foreign visitor and the author intends this book primarily "to help the traveller ... to identify the surviving monuments of the Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic ages and look at them in terms of their historical context against the background of their natural setting." Appendices include advise on hotels, restaurants and shops, a list of feasts and holidays, a glossary and chronological tables.
Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to Mainland Greece by : Brian De Jongh
Download or read book The Companion Guide to Mainland Greece written by Brian De Jongh and published by Companion Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Brian de Jongh's two classic Companion Guides, Southern Greece and Mainland Greece, were first published they were greeted with acclaim and immediately established themselves as essential guides. They have now been combined into this single volume, covering the whole of the Greek mainland. This new edition has been thoroughly revised by John Gandon (Brian de Jongh's nephew) and Geoffrey Graham-Bell, taking into account both new archaeological discoveries and recent development. Brian de Jongh combined an expert knowledge of history, archaeology and mythology with a profound understanding of the Greek people and a feeling for the landscape which inspired their myths and monuments: he describes a country that he loved and much of which Pausanias, writing almost two thousand years ago, would still recognise. This book is, more than ever, the most indispensable of all modern guides to Greece.
Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to the Greek Islands by : Ernle Bradford
Download or read book The Companion Guide to the Greek Islands written by Ernle Bradford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to the Greek Islands by : Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford
Download or read book The Companion Guide to the Greek Islands written by Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford and published by Collins Publishers San Francisco. This book was released on 1975 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Companion Guide to the Greek Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Greece written by Pausanias and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1984-08-07 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2,000 years ago Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues, it also describes in detail the myths, religious beliefs and historical background behind the monuments considered. In doing so, it preserves Greek legends, quotes classical literature and poetry that would otherwise have been lost, and offers a fascinating depiction of the glory of classical Greece immediately before its third-century decline. This, the second of two volumes, explores Southern Greece including Sparta, Arkadia, Bassae and the games at Olympia. An inspiration to travellers and writers across the ages, including Byron and Shelley, it remains one of the most influential of all travel books. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Synopsis Greece Before History by : Curtis Neil Runnels
Download or read book Greece Before History written by Curtis Neil Runnels and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to the people and monuments of ancient Greece.
Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to the South of Spain by : Alfonso Lowe
Download or read book The Companion Guide to the South of Spain written by Alfonso Lowe and published by Companion Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I value the traditional virtues of the Companion Guides... actually written by an individual rather than packaged by production teams... straightforward intelligent guides to cultural sites. BOOKSELLER Andalucia in its heyday, after the invasion of the Moors in 711, was famous for its wealth and fertility, and the province's Moorish character remains distinct; even before the Moors, the Phoenicians, the Romans and the Vandals had all been drawn to this beautiful land. The Moors cultivated science and the arts, and their influence was felt throughout western Europe - in the songs of the troubadours, the poems of Dante and the discoveries of Copernicus; their merchants enriched the province; their courtiers and architects set new standards of luxurious living. This glory finally ended in 1492, when the Christian armies of the Reconquista entered Granada, but much remains in the three Moorish towns of Cordoba, Seville and Granada, and the country round about, to recall the great times. Alfonso Lowe is an admirable guide, from the intricacies of the distinction between Mozarabic and Mudejar Moorish styles to the characteristic dishes to be found in restaurants and bars - and to the adjacent territories of Murcia and the greater part of Alicante.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition by : Graham Speake
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition written by Graham Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 2407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece by : Nigel Wilson
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece written by Nigel Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to South-west France by : Richard W. Barber
Download or read book The Companion Guide to South-west France written by Richard W. Barber and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1977 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to South Africa by : Eve Palmer
Download or read book The Companion Guide to South Africa written by Eve Palmer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1978 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Venetian Empire written by Jan Morris and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1990-01-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean – an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'. Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the historic Venetian trade routes from Venice itself to Greece, Crete and Cyprus. It is a traveller's book, geographically arranged but wandering at will from the past to the present, evoking not only contemporary landscapes and sensations but also the characters, the emotions and the tumultuous events of the past. The first such work ever written about the Venetian ‘Stato da Mar’, it is an invaluable historical companion for visitors to Venice itself and for travellers through the lands the Doges once ruled.
Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to the Coast of North-east England by : John Seymour
Download or read book The Companion Guide to the Coast of North-east England written by John Seymour and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Greek Stones Speak by : Paul Lachlan MacKendrick
Download or read book The Greek Stones Speak written by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1962 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schliemann's excavation is but the opening chapter in this exciting story of what modern science has revealed about the ancient cultures of the Aegeans and Grecians. It is a story that begins with the potsherds of Neolithic villages and climaxes in the glories of Lyric, Classical and Hellenistic Greece. Among its fascinating events is Ventris' deciphering of the archaic Linear B script, a breakthrough which revealed the secrets of the fabulous Minoan civlization. Wedding the complex techniques of such archaeological methods as the carbon-14 dating of artifacts to an astonishingly complete cultural history of man in Greece, the author has produced a lavishly illustrated study that will interest nonprofessionals as much as archaeologists, historians, travelers and students of the fine arts.
Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to Florence by : Eve Borsook
Download or read book The Companion Guide to Florence written by Eve Borsook and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to Southern Italy by : Peter Gunn
Download or read book The Companion Guide to Southern Italy written by Peter Gunn and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1969 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
