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The Sites of Ancient Greece

Paul Cartledge

From the Acropolis to Mount Olympus, The Sites of Ancient Greece offers a birds-eye view of some of the most famous and evocative landscapes, cities and buildings in history, many of them UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Phaidon Press
  • Publish Date: Apr 30th, 2012
  • Pages: 160
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 11.68in - 9.23in - 0.96in - 2.70lb
  • EAN: 9780714860848
  • Categories: Subjects & Themes - Regional (see also Travel - Pictorials)Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General

About the Author

Paul Cartledge (b.1947) is Professor of Greek History, the AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He also holds a visiting Global Distinguished Professorship at New York University. Cartledge is a world expert on Athens and Sparta in the Classical Age and was chief historical consultant for the BBC TV series 'The Greeks' and the Channel 4 series 'The Spartans'. His most recent books include Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (2009) and Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities (2009). He is also honorary citizen of (modern) Sparta.

Georg Gerster (1928-2019) was a pioneer in aerial photography. For over forty years he took breath-taking pictures of mountains, coasts and spectacular archeological sites in 111 countries on all continents.

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Praise for this book

"A fresh, Zeus's-eye perspective on landscapes, and sites, that ring with ancient and mythological significance."--Metro

"With tales of strife and discord the daily bread of Greece, it is easy to forget why the country has beguiled everyone from ancient poets to modern holiday-makers. This book, however, with its 150 bird's-eye photographs, is a salutary reminder."--The Independent

"Aerial views like the 100 images in Georg Gerster's The Sites of Ancient Greece... Achieve a perspective even those immortals can envy."--The Wall Street Journal

"Gaze at the bright blues and whites of timeless Greece with aerial photography at its best."--Boston.com

"These photographs are at once striking images unto themselves and documents of a time and place. This time is now but the place is the past - we are at once straddling the space where time simply collapses. And in being in this space, Gerster allows us to consider the photograph itself as a means to telling us a story which has no beginning and no end."--La Lettre de la Photographie