Athens: A Cultural and Literary History
Athens: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination) Michael Llewellyn Smith
Publisher: Interlink
ISBN: 1566565405
Edition: Paperback; 2004-03-01
Summary:
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.
Michael Llewellyn Smith describes the history and culture of Athens,
site of the 2004 Olympic Games and city of monuments enduring, purged
and restored. Exploring its streets and squares, he reveals layers of
Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine history, elegant Bavarian
neoclassical buildings, and a modern city of concrete and glass,
metro and tram. *THE CITY OF VISITORS: treasure hunters and
Philhellenes; Byron and Chateaubriand; Thackeray and Mark Twain;
Freud, Virigina 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.
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