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So what do we think of when
we say "Greece"?
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Early times:
- philosophy &
learning
- Athens, Plato
- wars - city-states,
Athens vs. Sparta, Philip of Macedonia, Alexander the Great
- legends, myths,
religion - Zeus, Apollo and the muses, Mars & Venus,
Hera & Demeter, Icaros
- early Christianity
- Luke the doctor, Paul visited, the gospels written in Greek
- Romans adopting
Greek culture - paintings, statues, language, music
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Byzantium:
- another great
empire we know virtually nothing whatever about
Turkocracy:
- Greek territories
as provinces of an Islamic great power
- Byron involved
in revolution
in some way which seems to have been as significant as it
is incomprehensible
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Recent times:
- fetà cheese
- Greek Orthodox church
- the Colonels, 1970s
dictatorship
- Merlina Mercouri,
Nana Mouskouri & the Athenians; Theodorakis, bouzoukis
- into the European
Community, one of the poor relations with Portugal, Spain
and southern Italy, receiving more than giving
- in Sweden, author
Theodor Kallifatides and radio personality Vassilis Bolonassos
- brightly-coloured
fishing boats; donkeys and goats; only old women, all dressed
only in black
- all-night parties
with ouzo, interminable singing, dancing in a long
line, no partners ...
