Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Shakespeare – Epidaurus 2009
If you are in Greece in July and August, and you’d like to watch performances of classical theatre, here are some dates you should write down: National Theatre of Greece – Dimiter Gotscheff (dir), Aeschylus, The Persians, Epidaurus Ancient Theatre / 31 July & 1 August ::More
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People to People goes Greece
“People to People” program brought Will, a Haverford Middle School sixth grader, and 36 other middle school students to Italy and Greece for 19 days of educational travel in July. As the program’s brochure describes it, “People to People” has the mission “to ::More
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Nana Mouskouri concert 23 July 2008 – Athens Herodion
There are no tickets available for the concert of Nana Mouskouri, according to the following message that I received. The sender of the message says he could help a few persons obtain tickets – at an extra cost I guess (be careful). —– Original Message —– Sent: ::More
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Visiting Athens
Late May and June is a good time to visit Athens: temperatures are already as hot as the average English summer, but without any hint of the blistering heat that will follow in July and August. The Athens Epidaurus Festival begins in late May and runs throughout the summer, with a variety of ::More
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McCabe’s Santorini
On his first trip to Greece half a century ago, Chicago-born Robert McCabe was still a student of English literature at Princeton University working on his thesis on Byron’s philhellenism. Travelling from Venice to Piraeus and eventually the Ionian islands, he came across a landscape which ::More
