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Author | : Denis Roubien |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2017-04-28 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1351966170 |
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This book explores the development of the city of Athens after the Greek War of Independence. It presents the process of creation of a neo-classical capital, in the place of a pre-existing town with the remains of a long history. The book examines the treatment of the pre-revolutionary town, its connection with the neo-classical city, the position of old churches in this antiquity-centered capital, and the factors that influenced the implementation of the projects for the new capital and their consequences on the city’s evolution. It will be of interest to historians, geographers, architects and scholars of Europe.
Author | : Robin Waterfield |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2012-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1447207173 |
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An up-to-date accessible history of the phenomenal rise and fall of the greatest city of antiquity, describing its rise to pre-eminence and rapid demise as the greatest of all Greek tragedies. The first history of the city to continue the story through 1500 years of obscurity to its romantic revival under Byron's influence and up to the present day, is eminently qualified to write this book. A classicist by training, he has translated many of the key texts for Penguin Classics and OUP, is intimate with the latest scholarship and travels to Greece every year.
Author | : George Sarrinikolaou |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2004-06-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0865476993 |
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Author | : George Horton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Athens (Greece) |
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Author | : Denis Roubien |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-04-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1351966162 |
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Athens is a well-known destination for those interested in discovering the birthplace of Western civilization. Its ancient monuments have been the model for innumerable buildings and works of art all over the Western world. However, the reality of modern Athens is much more complicated: the ancient monuments and neo-classical buildings are interlaced with winding streets, Byzantine churches, mosques, and an oriental bazaar. These juxtapositions require explanation. This book explores the development of the city of Athens after the beginning of Greek independence in 1830. It presents the process of creation of a neo-classical capital, in the place of a pre-existing town with the remains of a long history. An array of chapters examine the treatment of the pre-revolutionary town; its connection with the neo-classical city; the position of old churches in this antiquity-centred capital; and the factors that influenced the implementation of the projects for the new capital and their consequences for the city’s evolution. All this will be placed in its European context, explaining how the construction of modern Athens relates heavily to the influence of the ‘great’ European capitals. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in urban design, urban geography, and modern Greek history.
Author | : Robert Mudie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1825 |
Genre | : Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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Author | : Robert Mudie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1825 |
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Author | : James Edward Miller |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807832472 |
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Focusing on one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in modern Greek history and in the history of the Cold War, James Edward Miller provides the first study to employ a wide range of international archives_American, Greek, English, and French_t
Author | : Nicole Loraux |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2002-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
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An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens. Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the democrats have returned to the city victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of willful amnesia, citizens call for---if not invent---amnesty. They agree to forget the unforgettable, the "past misfortunes," of civil strife or stasis. More precisely, what they agree to deny is that stasis---simultaneously partisanship, faction, and sedition---is at the heart of their politics. Continuing a criticism of Athenian ideology begun in her pathbreaking study The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux argues that this crucial moment of Athenian political history must be interpreted as constitutive of politics and political life and not as a threat to it. Divided from within, the city is formed by that which it refuses. Conflict, the calamity of civil war, is the other, dark side of the beautiful unitary city of Athens. In a brilliant analysis of the Greek word for voting, diaphora, Loraux underscores the conflictual and dynamic motion of democratic life. Voting appears as the process of dividing up, of disagreement---in short, of agreeing to divide and choose. Not only does Loraux reconceptualize the definition of ancient Greek democracy, she also allows the contemporary reader to rethink the functioning of modern democracy in its critical moments of internal stasis.
Author | : Robert Mudie |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290957144 |
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.