A video shows the striking new Acropolis Museum, and A Traveler’s Library reviews the week spent in Greece.
Destination: Greece Read: Childe Harold, Canto II, XI-XIII and XV By Lord Byron If you are lucky, you’ll tune in to the Acropolis web page in time to hear the ceremony of opening today. (They have a video embedded in the web site, but don’t say what time. Presumably quite early U.S. time)
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Christopher Hitchens writes eloquently in Vanity Fair about Acropolis Museum. Just one of many world wide articles.
Yesterday it was mythology in a book, today myths strut on the stage. Destination: Greece Read/See: Medea, by Euripides (Legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece) Oedipus and Antigone, two plays by Sophocles, (Legends from the Royal Family of Thebes) In a graduate school seminar, I became fixated on traveling to Greece. The professor showed [...]
When you visit Greece, it helps to know a bit about the mythology, gods and heroes. This is particularly true if you want to enjoy the Parthenon in Athens and understand the current controversy over the British Museum vs. Greece. The recommended Mythology by Edith Hamilton reveals that ancient Greeks were good story tellers.
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The movie, My Life in Ruins, shows beautiful scenery, but the comedy fails.
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Destination: Rome Books: The Masters of Rome Series by Collen McCullough It seems to me that is essential to have some understanding of ancient Rome if you are going to travel to today’s Rome. All those piles of rock and bits of arches in the forum, with the magnificent hulk of the Coliseum watching over [...]
Book: Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World, by Sharon Waxman Destinations: Greece, Turkey, Egypt and the British Museum in London, Metropolitan Museum in NYC, the Louvre in Paris, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles Welcome to my traveler’s library. Have you ever wondered how the lovely antiquities from some [...]
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