greece-10-understand-survival.pdf

HISTORY THE MODERN GREEK NATION 1924–34 Greece is proclaimed a republic and King George II leaves Greece. The Great Depression c ...

HISTORY THE MODERN GREEK NATION 1944–49 The end of WWII sees Greece descend into civil war, pitching monarchists against communi ...

HISTORY THE MODERN GREEK NATION 1981 Greece joins the EU, eff ectively removing protective trade barriers and opening up the Gre ...

HISTORY THE MODERN GREEK NATION 2007 Vast forest fi res devastate much of the western Peloponnese as well as parts of Evia and E ...

HISTORY THE MODERN GREEK NATION 2008 Police shoot and kill a 15-year-old boy in Athens following an alleged exchange between pol ...

Ancient Greek Culture When the Roman Empire assimilated Greece it did so with consider- able respect and idealism. The Romans in ...

ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE MYTHOLOGY »Aphrodite (Venus) Goddess of love and beauty. The curvy lady of the shell was said to have been ...

ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE THE GOLDEN AGE OF DRAMA Seagull...glue melts, feathers separate, bird-boy drowns. And the moral is: listen ...

ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE SCULPTURE and reason. Athens’ greatest, most noble citizen,Socrates (469–399 BC), was forced to drink heml ...

ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE THE ORACLE OF DELPHI of state: be it whether to go to war, whether to colonise a new country or subjects m ...

The Greek Way of Life The Greek way of life came under unprecedented international scrutiny in the wake of Greece’s 2011 soverei ...

THE GREEK WAY OF LIFE SOCIAL & FAMILY LIFE vibrant street life and relaxed dining scene. People of all ages live it up at ni ...

THE GREEK WAY OF LIFE THE GREEK CHARACTER It’s uncommon for Greek children to move out of home before they are married, unless t ...

THE GREEK WAY OF LIFE THE GREEK CHARACTER Greeks prefer spontaneity to making plans and are notoriously late (turning up on time ...

THE GREEK WAY OF LIFE THE NEW GREEKS It’s taken several attempts at banning smoking in public places to make any impact. Creativ ...

THE GREEK WAY OF LIFE FAITH & IDENTITY moving to the cities. Greece’s illegal immigration problems have sparked anti-immigra ...

THE GREEK WAY OF LIFE FAITH & IDENTITY social, political and economic infl uence. Greece doesn’t have the same Church-state ...

Architecture Cast your eyesaround most major Western cities and you’ll eventually fi nd a reinterpretation of classical Greek ar ...

ARCHITECTURE MYCENAEAN ENGINEERING also in Crete, and at the Minoan outpost of Ancient Akrotiri on the south of Santorini. ,Seve ...

ARCHITECTURE HELLENISTIC CITIZENS The mother of all Doric structures is the 5th-century-BC Parthenon, the ultimate in architectu ...