Greece is Great!
Jan Migenda
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In 2016, I did a guided tour through Greece with a group of Irish students! From Athens to Sparta and more ... enjoy lots of history!
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National Museum of Archeology - Bronze Age
The Bronze Age in Europe (ca 3200-800 BC) was a very important period for the development of many cultures by crafts and trade. The Minoans in Crete were a famous example ... but in the end, preferring luxury goods over staple food lead to problems in the archaic...
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National Museum of Archeology - Insular Culture
After the Stone Age department, a small collection of artifacts from the Greek islands awaited the visitor: A relief of a war chariot attacking an enemy with spirals as smolbs for the wind. Ivory statues of musicians playing a lyre (harp) and an aulos, a double flute....
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National Museum of Archeology - Stone Age 2
The second part about the Stone Age in Greece: Female figurines made from clay with exaggerated sexual features were a widespread artifact used as bringers of fertility. Similar "Venus" figures were found in Germany, too, see the "Venus of Willendorf". Some everyday...
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The National Museum of Archeology Athens - Stone Age
Our first main attraction as a study group was the National Museum of Archeology in Athens, the biggest archeological collection in Greece and famous worldwide. My next posts will structure the exhibition in a chronological way, piece by piece. In the Stona Age, people...
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The Panathenaic Stadium "Kallimarmaro"
Ancient Greece is known for good physical education culminating in the Olympic games and pankration (kind of ancient MMA). A highlight I saw in Athens before meeting my group was the Panathinaiko Stadium, also called Kallimarmaro because it is the world's only stadium...
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Athens Beach
On the next day, I was still waiting for the others to arrive, and so I decided to go to the beach not far away from the hotel. I just had to take a tram for 30 minutes, and there it was! On this sunny and warm day, many people were there ... a special feature: You...
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Lykabettos Hill - A Panorama over Athens
On my first evening in Athens, I was waiting for the others to arrive the next day, and so I was free to roam and explore. Not far away from my hotel was Lykabettos Hill, the highest point in the city centre giving you a great panoramic view of the city! It took about...
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Starting Out in Greece - Athens
In August/September 2016, I did a study tour of two weeks to Greece with the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies to explore the origins of Classical European culture to get to know the origins of philosophy and democracy in some early forms along with tons of history...
