Athens by Michael Llewellyn Smith
Modern Athens is a bustling, overgrown city, continually coming to terms with its illustrious past. Dominated by the Parthenon, the world-famous symbol of classical antiquity, it has been touched by every aspect of Greece's turbulent history, suffering invasions and occupations, sieges, division and dictatorship, and has grown dramatically into a metropolis of four million people. Mixing old and new, the Greek capital is a treasure house of eastern Orthodox and western culture, rich in the visual arts, architecture and poetry. - THE CITY OF VISITORS: treasure hunters and Philhellenes; Byron and Chateaubriand; Thackeray and Mark Twain; Freud, Virginia Woolf and Winston Churchill. -THE CITY OF OLYMPIANS: host of the first modern Games of 1896 and the Olympiad of 2004; the revival of the Olympic idea. -THE CITY OF ATHENIANS: classical soldiers and thinkers; poets, politicians and princes; migrants and refugees from Greece and beyond.
Among a large pack of guides-cum-histories released for the Olympics, this should take the gold- The Independent ... readers will discover for themselves the depth of the author's love for Athens past and present. - ekathimerini.com
MICHAEL LLEWELLYN SMITH is a historian who has lived and worked in Athens for more than ten years as a student, teacher and diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Athens between 1996 and 1999.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781902669816 |
| ISBN 10 | 1902669819 |
| Title | Athens |
| Author | Michael Llewellyn Smith |
| Series | Cities Of The Imagination |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Signal Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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