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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Several weeks ago, Dr. Jessie Voight, from Wandering Educators, interviewed me. She asked, among other things, “Can we ever read enough to get to know a place? Even if we’ve been there?” She also asked about some of my favorite books about different cultures. And she borrowed some of the photographs I have taken on [...]
Destination: Peloponnese, Greece Book: Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor “All of Greece is absorbing and rewarding. There is hardly a rock or a stream without a battle or a myth, a miracle or a peasant anecdote or a superstition; and talk and incident, nearly all of it odd or memorable, [...]
Destination: Pylos, Greece Book: The History of the Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides I’m in a road trip frame of mind, since I’m in the middle of one right now. Thanks to a hotel with WIFI and for Traveler’s son lending a laptop to the cause, I can add some thoughts on road trips to the [...]
Welcome to visitors from Spot Cool Stuff. I hope you will stay a while and enjoy the Traveler’s Library. If you are looking for more on Greece in books and movies, read on. I’m flitting around the Internet guest posting again. This time at Spot Cool Stuff, where I talk about one of my favorite [...]
