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Order Nr. 71774 ATHENS: FROM THE CLASSICAL PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY (5TH CENTURY B.C. - A.D....

ATHENS: FROM THE CLASSICAL PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY (5TH CENTURY B.C. - A.D. 2000).

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 4to. Cloth w/dust jacket. 540 pages. First edition. In commemoration of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, twenty outstanding scholars have set about to celebrate, with prose and illustration, 2,500 years of Greece's most famous city. This unique work, with its collection of rare drawings and photographs, explores the historical Athens from its Classical beginnings to the city's rebirth as the bustling, modern capitol of the Greek nation..... READ MORE

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                                 CONTENTS


To the Reader                                                       i
Introduction                                                 iii-viii


                             CHAPTERS I-XVII

M. Korres
    Athenian Classical Architecture                              2-45

Angelos Delivorrias
    Great Sculpture in Fifth-Century Athens                     46-87

M. B. Sakellariou
    Athenian Democracy                                         88-105

Linos G. Benakis
    Philosophy in Athens (from Anaxagoras to Damascius)       106-143

Charalambos Bouras
    Planning and Architecture in Hellenistic Athens           144-165

Alkistis Spetsieri-Choremi
    Urban Development and Monumental Buildings in Athens
    under Augustus and Hadrian                                166-193

Maria Kazanaki-Lappa
    Athens from Late Antiquity to the Turkish Conquest        194-219

Charalambos Bouras
    Middle Byzantine Athens: Planning and Architecture        220-245

Nana Chatzidakis
    Mosaics and Wall-Paintings in Byzantine and Postbyzantine
    Churches in Athens                                        246-279

Fani-Maria Tsigakou
    The Rediscovery of Athens by Artist Travellers            280-307

Fani Mallouchou-Tufano
    From the 19th to the 21st Century: Metamorphoses
    of the Archaeological Landscape in Athens                 308-343

Martin Kreeb
    The Antiquities of Athens through the Eyes
    of Foreign Travellers                                     344-369

Manos Biris
    The Founding of Modem Athens:
    The New City Plan and Urban Development                   370-397

Georgios A. Panetsos
    The Formation of Athenian Neoclassicism                   398-435

Panayotis Tournikiotis
    Public Interest in Modem Architecture in Athens
    between the Wars                                          436-459

Dimitris Philippidis
    Contemporary Architecture in Athens                       460-483

Nikos Vatopoulos
    Athens Today                                              484-508

Index                                                         509-523