This LJ is primarily a blog for me to let readers know when I add updates to my Greek travel website:



It includes my photos, diary entries, and musings on ancient Greek art and archaeology, sites and monuments, mythology, gods and goddesses, and history. I also include book and website recommendations.


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Heads full of famous art, we were bussed back to the hotel for a late lunch. But food could wait -- Athens' archaelogical sites and museums closed at 2:30! I had seen something tucked against the lower slopes of the Acropolis that I did not want to miss.

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The Acropolis is Athena's, but also shared. Most of the restored Acropolis is hers, but there were also altars, statues, shrines, temples to Pytho (Persuasion), Artemis, and Poseidon.

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Also in This Section:
Recommended Links: Persian Wars, Parthenon websites
Online shopping: Images of Athena

Thera. How long has that island held me in its spell? I remember stumbling across its legend as a child. Before the Trojan war, before Greece was Greek, a thriving people we call Minoans lived on the big island of Crete. They plied the seas with ships, trading with Egypt and Babylon and the Bronze Age peoples living where Greece would one day arise from marble-bedded hills.

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Also in this section:
Book Recommendations on Santorini and the Atlantis Legend