All I ever wanted to know about numismatics and was afraid to ask.
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Money, money, money makes the world go around.
The way of the drachma.
Plottery?
The first time I have been in a mosque.
Quick! What is the difference between The Museum of Traditional Pottery and the Traditional Pottery Collection?
Night at the museum
A delegation from Iran to Greece will soon ask for the return the Islamic art that Mr Benaki took for his collection.
The Benaki Museum sets a standard in every respect.
Crowded House.
The pervading scent was the dust on the stones.
The National Archaeological Museum is all of Greece at once.
The aliens have landed!
I admit they do look a little bit like Thor from Star Gate.
They landed on an island in the Kyklades.
Lost your marbles?
Lord Elgin’s side of the story remains to be heard.
Acropolis Museum and New Acropolis Museum.
Shop til you drop!
The poet sandal maker is now, in the second generation, a playwright sandal maker.
Culture good, but so is commerce.
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