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Athens, Home of the '04 Olympics

Oak Knoll Press announces the publication of "Athens, From the Classic 
Period to the Present Day." This beautifully written and illustrated book 
about the 2,500-year history of the City of the Olympics celebrates Athens' 
ancient beginnings to its rebirth as a bustling modern capitol. With more 
than 500 illustration in color and B/W, the city's art, culture, monuments, 
and history are explored by seventeen leading Greek scholars. If you can 
not actually go to the Olympics this year, this handsome, commemorative 
book is the next best thing to being there!

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ATHENS: FROM THE CLASSICAL PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY (5TH CENTURY B.C. - 
A.D. 2000)
By Konstantinos Sp. Staikos, et al.
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.
    The reader is invited to view many beautiful illustrations that capture 
Athens' timeless architecture, mosaics, wall paintings and sculpture that 
have fascinated both ancient and modern travelers. Each scholar/author 
shares with us their special insight into the many facets of the city's 
long history.
    The text of this work is presented in seventeen well-written chapters 
that focus on the city's architecture, art, culture, monuments, landscape, 
history and urban development. These essays allow the reader to form a 
multi-dimensional understanding of this birthplace of Democracy and origin 
of Western Thought and Civilization.
2003, hardcover, 9 x 12 inches, 540 pages, over 500 illustrations
ISBN 1584560916     Order No. 071774     Price: $85.00    SPECIAL PRICE: $68.00
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