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Chronography - parallel text, Greek and English (Hardcover)
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Chronography - parallel text, Greek and English (Hardcover)
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The Archaeological Society of Athens is celebrating its 180th
anniversary in December 2017 with the publication of a collection
of photographs taken in the 1950s of major Greek Archaeological
sites, most of which the Society has had a role in excavating and
studying. The photographs were taken by the American photographer
Robert McCabe primarily during his first two visits to Greece in
1954 and 1955. The sites represented include Athens, Delphi,
Rhodes, Mycenae, Ancient Thera, Corinth, and Methoni. Many things
that interested McCabe were things that the Greeks took for granted
but he was seeing for the first time and wanted to record: the
light and shadow revealing the shapes and masses of the ruins, the
guard taking refuge from the noon-day sun, the lone figure of a
woman on a deserted dirt road under the Acropolis-all take on
symbolic meaning. a floor worn by water and millenniums of
footsteps presents a play of shadows that dance to the whims of the
sun. Everything interests him: the peaceful railroad station at
Mycenae, the photographer at Delphi, the marble workers with their
chisels-all bear witness to a lost world that few remember.
Introduction by Vasileios Petrakos, the President of the
Archaeological Society of Athens. 196 original b&w photographs,
printed in tritone.
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