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ATHENS AT A GLANCE

Discover the rich history, vibrant entertainment, and influential writers of Athens. Experience the iconic Acropolis and immerse yourself in the city's legendary past.

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ATHENS AT A GLANCE

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  1. ATHENS AT A GLANCE By Elias Papadopoulos BILC Conference San Antonio, Texas 2007

  2. SIGHTSEEING IN ATHENS Sitting under the night sky, you can watch the Acropolis, picked out by floodlight, loom out of the modern Athenian skyline. It is perhaps the most overused image in the world, this assemblage of classical silhouettes on the familiar bare outcrop of rock. Yet the pride in its construction is still palpable, almost 2,500 years later.

  3. ENTERTAINMENT IN ATHENS Athens excels in the sheer variety of its open-air summer entertainment.

  4. ENTERTAINMENT IN ATHENS For most Athenians, however, entertainment means late-night dining in tavernas, followed by bar- and club-hopping until the early hours.

  5. ECHOS FROM A GOLDEN AGE Visiting Athens, somebody should be prepared to sense the glorious past of this city and live the myth, which is mingled with history, tradition and reality.

  6. ECHOES FROM A GOLDEN AGE Athens was the birth of European civilization. It flourished in the 5th Century, B.C., when the Athenians controlled much of the eastern Mediterranean.

  7. ECHOES FROM A GOLDEN AGE The Greek temple is one of the most influential of all architectural creations, still used today, particularly in official or state buildings.

  8. GREEK WRITERS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND TRAGIC POETS IN BRIEF Socrates was the first philosopher who moved from philosophical-scientific inquiry to ethical questions. He constantly provoked people to examine conventional wisdom by methodical inquiry, to distinguish truth from mere belief.

  9. GREEK WRITERS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND TRAGIC POETS IN BRIEF What do we know and how do we come to know it? What is the highest excellence or virtue of mankind?

  10. GREEK WRITERS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND TRAGIC POETS IN BRIEF Plato moved a step further by stressing the fact that there is a fundamental distinction between appearance and reality. What we perceive can only be some shadow of a supersensible reality.

  11. GREEK WRITERS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND TRAGIC POETS IN BRIEF Is a man’s fate preordained? Which laws are higher—the civil law of the state or the natural law of the gods? And who can be trusted to interpret these natural laws? What is the nature of justice? Is it vengeance? Or deliberation and weighing of evidence? What dark propensities lie within us?

  12. GREEK WRITERS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND TRAGIC POETS IN BRIEF This public, popular searching for the boundaries of humanity before the eyes of a god, taking the profane with the sublime, seems to be the essence of the Greek miracle.

  13. WELCOME TO ATHENS—2008.

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