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catalog abstract "A guide to the history and culture of Athens explores its streets and squares, revealing layers of Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine history, elegant Bavarian neoclassical buildings, and a modern city of concrete and glass, metro and tram.".
catalog contributor b13218895.
catalog coverage "Athens (Greece) Civilization 19th century.".
catalog coverage "Athens (Greece) Civilization 20th century.".
catalog created "2004.".
catalog date "2004".
catalog date "2004.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
catalog description "A guide to the history and culture of Athens explores its streets and squares, revealing layers of Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine history, elegant Bavarian neoclassical buildings, and a modern city of concrete and glass, metro and tram.".
catalog description "FOREWORD by Roderick Beaton -- PREFACE -- CHRONOLOGY Some Key Dates in the History of Athens -- INTRODUCTION Between Ancient and Modern -- CHAPTER ONE : MARKETS, KIOSKS, HOLES IN THE GROUND, SOUND AND LIGHT : Street Life ; Business and Pleasure ; Cafe Culture ; The Story of a Hole ; Growth of the Modern City ; Migration and Crime ; Heat and Light ; Athenians Observed ; Mark Twain and the Acropolis -- CHAPTER TWO NOSTALGIA AND RETROSPECT: IMPRESSIONS OF FORTY-FIVE YEARS : "Old Athens" ; Curse of the Car ; The View from Mount Lycabettus -- CHAPTER THREE OTRO TAKES POSSESSION: WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE ACROPOLIS? : The Acropolis: A Brief History ; Restoration and Excavation -- CHAPTER FOUR LANDSCAPING THE ACROPOLIS : Revelation and Rapture ; Freud's Memory ; "A Prodigious Bomb" ; Classical Symbol ; The Elgin Marbles -- CHAPTER FIVE THE AGORA AND THE CLASSICAL CITY : Heart of the City ; Excavating the Agora ; Roman Athens -- CHAPTER SIX THE ATHENIAN WAY OF DEATH : The Kerameikos ; Funeral Rites ; The First Cemetery ; The Protestant Cemetery -- CHAPTER SEVEN BYZANTINES, FRANKS, CATALANS AND FLORENTINES : Traces of Byzantium ; The Orthodox Church ; "A Great Ruin" ; Enter the Franks -- CHAPTER EIGHT THE TURKISH TOWN : Writers and Visitors ; Chateaubriand and Byron ; Greek against Turk -- CHAPTER NINE ATHENS REVIVED : Otho's Capital ; Planning the New Athens ; The Plaka ; The Anaphiotika ; Constitution Square ; Power Politics -- CHAPTER TEN ATHENS CAPITAL CITY : The University ; Symbols of State ; Cathedrals and Churches ; Architects and Benefactors ; From Otho to George I ; Heart of Hellenism ; Cultured Tourists -- CHAPTER ELEVEN OLYMPIC ATHENS : Olympics Revived ; American Triumph ; The Marathon ; From 1896 to 2004 ; The Great Idea -- CHAPTER TWELVE WAR, MIGRATION, AND REFUGEES : Athens at War ; Refugee Crisis ; Identity and Change: Yerania and Kaisariani ; Changing Cityscape: the Inter-war Years ; Political Instability ; German Occupation and Famine ; Liberation -- CH.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-248) and indexes.".
catalog extent "xvii, 257 p. :".
catalog identifier "1566565405 (pbk.)".
catalog isPartOf "Cities of the imagination".
catalog issued "2004".
catalog issued "2004.".
catalog language "eng gre".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Northampton, Mass. : Interlink Books,".
catalog spatial "Athens (Greece) Civilization 19th century.".
catalog spatial "Athens (Greece) Civilization 20th century.".
catalog subject "949.5/12 22".
catalog subject "DF920 .S65 2004".
catalog tableOfContents "FOREWORD by Roderick Beaton -- PREFACE -- CHRONOLOGY Some Key Dates in the History of Athens -- INTRODUCTION Between Ancient and Modern -- CHAPTER ONE : MARKETS, KIOSKS, HOLES IN THE GROUND, SOUND AND LIGHT : Street Life ; Business and Pleasure ; Cafe Culture ; The Story of a Hole ; Growth of the Modern City ; Migration and Crime ; Heat and Light ; Athenians Observed ; Mark Twain and the Acropolis -- CHAPTER TWO NOSTALGIA AND RETROSPECT: IMPRESSIONS OF FORTY-FIVE YEARS : "Old Athens" ; Curse of the Car ; The View from Mount Lycabettus -- CHAPTER THREE OTRO TAKES POSSESSION: WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE ACROPOLIS? : The Acropolis: A Brief History ; Restoration and Excavation -- CHAPTER FOUR LANDSCAPING THE ACROPOLIS : Revelation and Rapture ; Freud's Memory ; "A Prodigious Bomb" ; Classical Symbol ; The Elgin Marbles -- CHAPTER FIVE THE AGORA AND THE CLASSICAL CITY : Heart of the City ; Excavating the Agora ; Roman Athens -- CHAPTER SIX THE ATHENIAN WAY OF DEATH : The Kerameikos ; Funeral Rites ; The First Cemetery ; The Protestant Cemetery -- CHAPTER SEVEN BYZANTINES, FRANKS, CATALANS AND FLORENTINES : Traces of Byzantium ; The Orthodox Church ; "A Great Ruin" ; Enter the Franks -- CHAPTER EIGHT THE TURKISH TOWN : Writers and Visitors ; Chateaubriand and Byron ; Greek against Turk -- CHAPTER NINE ATHENS REVIVED : Otho's Capital ; Planning the New Athens ; The Plaka ; The Anaphiotika ; Constitution Square ; Power Politics -- CHAPTER TEN ATHENS CAPITAL CITY : The University ; Symbols of State ; Cathedrals and Churches ; Architects and Benefactors ; From Otho to George I ; Heart of Hellenism ; Cultured Tourists -- CHAPTER ELEVEN OLYMPIC ATHENS : Olympics Revived ; American Triumph ; The Marathon ; From 1896 to 2004 ; The Great Idea -- CHAPTER TWELVE WAR, MIGRATION, AND REFUGEES : Athens at War ; Refugee Crisis ; Identity and Change: Yerania and Kaisariani ; Changing Cityscape: the Inter-war Years ; Political Instability ; German Occupation and Famine ; Liberation -- CH.".
catalog title "Athens : a cultural and literary history / by Michael Llewellyn Smith.".
catalog type "text".