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The poet sandal maker is now, in the second generation, a playwright sandal maker.
Author: Michael W Jackson
Big Zeus!
Big!
The temple of Zeus.
Row! Row! Row your trireme!
The new accommodates the past in Athens in many ways. Piraeus has several examples.
All I know about triremes comes from Wikipedia these days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trireme
It’s all Greek to me.
Plato’s Academy in the first hour.
My first goal in Athens was to find Plato’s Academy.
On the origins of the phrase “it’s all Greek to me,” see http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-gre1.htm
Cool Runnings
There are seven things to see at Marathon, but they are too far apart to do on foot.
The 42.19 kilometer Marathon
Bema there, done that!
I stood where Pericles stood.
The Pnyx had no tourists but us.
Bury my heart at … Kerameikos
We have been to Wounded Knee in Wyoming. I have a dream catcher to prove it.
The Cimetière du Père-Lachaise of Ancient Athens
Alexander the Great was here!
That lion is big.
Next stop Chaeronea
From Delphi to eternity
Delphi has to be seen.
Ethereal and eerie.
Get me to the church on time! The Athens Metro
“I’d use public transport if the wait was never more than eight minutes.” I used to say this based on experiences in Amsterdam. I have a new standard now: two minutes.
The cry of every commuter.
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