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Our blog is an artistic, cultural guide to the Greek landscapes. At the same time it offers an introduction to the history of Greek fine arts, Greek artists, mainly Greek painters, as well as to the recent artistic movements

Our aim is to present the Greek landscapes in a holistic way: Greek landscapes refer to pictures and images of Greece, to paintings and art, to poetry and literature, to ancient philosophy and history, to contemporary thought and culture...
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Friday, October 2, 2009

Artistic, cultural guide to Greek landscapes through paintings, images, thoughts & literature

Greek landscapes

Greek landscapes refer to images and pictures of Greece, to art and culture, to history and myths, to civilization and contemporary thought. Greek landscapes express a holistic meaning: the profile of Greece. Art is the best way to approach the identity of the Greek landscape as art reflects the synthesis of civilization. Greek landscapes from Greek cities, Greek islands, Greece hinterland. Through pictures & paintings, poetry and literature, artists & poets, maps & links the unique Greek landscapes explore their myths...

An itinerary to to the Greek landscape through Yannis Stavrou painting




Yannis Stavrou, Greek landscapes from Greek islands and Greece hinterland: "Olive Groves", "Church in Greek Countryside", "Maritime Landscape", "Hydra Island Landscape", "Olive Trees", "Attica Landscape in Springtime"

An itinerary to to the Greek landscape through the history of Greek art /painting




Landscapes by Greek painters: Papaloucas, Altamouras, Ikonomou, Maleas, Parthenis

An itinerary to to the Greek landscape through Greek poetry

As if long prepared, as if courageous, / as it becomes you who have been worthy of such a city,
approach the window with firm step, / and with emotion, but not
with the entreaties and complaints of the coward, / as a last enjoyment listen to the sounds,
the exquisite instruments of the mystical troupe, / and bid her farewell, the Alexandria you are losing

from "The God Forsakes Antony" by Konstantinos Kavafis, translated by www.ellopos.net


I I've kept a hold on my life, kept a hold on my life, traveling / among yellow trees in driving rain
on silent slopes loaded with beech leaves / no fire on their peaks; it's getting dark.

from "
Epiphany" by Giorgos Sepheris, translated by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard


I found the leaves that the sun's psalm memorizes / The living land that passion joys in opening

from "
Drinking The Sun of Corinth" by Odysseus Elytis, translated by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard


An itinerary to to the Greek landscape through Greekhistory / Links

The Greeks
Greeks Interactive
The Ancient Greek World Index
The Amazing Ancient World - GREECE
EAWC: Ancient Greece
The Greek World of MARY RENAULT
Greece: History
Odyssey Online
Perseus Digital Library - Perseus: Greek and Roman Materials
Internet Resources: Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece: Archaic Greece, 800-500 BC
Ancient Greek Civilizations
The Ancient Greek World - Land
Classical Atlas Project -- Home Page
Ancient Classical History
Greece Sites
Ancient Greece
Hellenistic Greece
The Geography of Ancient Greece
Articles on ancient Greece
Lectures on Ancient and Early Medieval History - Main
110Tech-Greece
The Culture and Archaeology of Ancient Greece
Mare Nostrum: The Greeks
Latin and Greek Word Elements

► THE MINOAN & MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATIONS
The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
Barbarians and Bureaucrats: Minoa, Mycenae, and the Greek Dark Ages - Contents
MAP: Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations c. 2000 B.C.
The Minoans
The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Organization
The First Palaces in the Aegean
Minoans: Religion
Minoan Palace
Minoans: Women in Minoan Culture
Minoans: Minoan Visual Culture
The Early Minoan Period:The Settlements
The History of Plumbing (CRETE)
The Myceneans
Mycenean Religion
The Dark Ages

► MACEDONIAN CIVILIZATION & ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Timeline
Chronology of the reign of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Army of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great on the Web
ALEXANDER THE GREAT, Project by JJP
Alexander the Great history project home page
History House: Stories: Philip of Macedon (and Pausanias)
HWC, Alexander the Great
The Search for Alexander
History House: Alexander the Great
MAP: Alexander in the East
Plutarch's ALEXANDER
Hellenistic Greece: Alexander
History of Macedonia
Kings of Ancient Macedonia

► ART & ARCHITECTURE
ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Ancient Greece and Rome
The Parthenon at Athens
Parthenon
The Acropolis Museum
Acropolis Tour
Parthenon Gallery - Acropolis Plan
Acropolis Plan
Virtual Tour of Acropolis
Acropolis of Athens - 360 Virtual Tour
A Virtual Tour of The Athenian Acropolis
Acropolis Virtual Tour
The Parthenon - Ictinus and Callicrates with Phidias
Greek Art
Classical Greek Sculpture: Home
Greek Architecture
More on Greek Architecture
Greek Kouroi
Pottery and Minor art Collection
The Collection of Sculpture
National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Archaeological Museum of Delphi

► EDUCATION
The Ancient Greek World: Schooling
Coming of Age in Ancient Greece - School


► ATHENS & DEMOCRACY
Polis
The Foundations of the Greek Polis
The Ancient City of Athens
Culture of Athens
The Delian League
Ancient Greek Government
Greek Democracy
The Development of Athenian Democracy
The Development of Athenian Democracy
Solons Reforms and Democracy
Lecture 6: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy
Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy
The Buildings on Acropolis
Athens
The Age of Pericles: The Athenian Empire
Thucydides: Pericles' Funeral Oration
The Second Athenian Empire: 362-338 BC
Athenian Rowdies
The Internet Classics Archive | The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
Greek reformers
Athens in 421 BC - Project Athinai


An itinerary to to the Greek landscape through contemporary thought

"P. Kondylis"

” The late Panayiotis Kondylis, Greece’s sole real modern strategist, was the only voice that brutally and publicly demolished accepted Greek illusions about a national security model exclusively depended on the imaginary willingness of others to provide the level of protection Greece is unable to provide for herself. In his Theory of War (1997) Kondylis warned that Greek troubles with Turkey emanated from the fundamental strategic error of Greece convincing herself that Turkey perceives EU membership with the same singular fervor as that permeating Greek political and economic elites — or, that Greece’s European partners are fundamentally committed to solidarity with Greece against Turkish actions come hell or high water.

These and other erroneous premises on the part of a country that fails to stand on her own two feet, and expects other to do what she cannot fulfill in her own defense, Kondylis argued, will mathematically result in the “European-ization” of Turkey working as the ironic lever of turning Greece into a permanent satellite of the Euro-Asian, neo-Ottoman Turkish great power through a protracted process of European-Turkish negotiation in which (a) Turkey makes constant demands for preferential interpretation of accession criteria and (b) the Europeans, in wishing not to slam the door in Turkey’s face but, at the same time, unwilling to openly water down EU criteria, choose the convenient outlet of offering “incentives” to Ankara at the expense of a submissive, but wholly “European,” Greece.

Kondylis’ conception carries a frightening logic that is confirmed in practice with each passing day. “

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