Thanos Papathanasopoulos

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Misunderstanding of the Ministry Of Culture

For some time now I have noticed that the Acropolis hill appears on newscasts and on other broadcast media, from the west, from the north (lately) but never from the south, except for Herodeion with part of Eumenous’ Stoa. Appearing that we should not see the Theater of Dionysus...

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Methoni beach with the fortress in the background

Methoni, as is well known, is identified by Strabo (Geographika. 8, 359-360) and Pausanias (Messeniaka IV, 35, 1) with the Homeric Pidassos, one of the seven cities that Agamemnon gave to Achilles in order to appease him (Ill.I 294). In the Peloponnesian War there was a wall to protect...

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