Recent Posts Tagged With 'greece'

• Private Treasure from Greece and the Levant

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 08:39 in greece, graphic art, sotheby's

  Sotheby's: "Greece and the Levant: A Private Library"First edition, by Guillaume Abel Blouet:3 volumes bound in 4 (volume 3 bound in two parts), large folio (600 x 420mm.), 3 half-titles, 3 engraved additional titles, and 262 plates, 5 coloured by ha...

• Greek Drama Kings

  Posted on Monday June 9th, 2008 at 02:09 in greece

  Time for introducing Athens [perspective] for daily dose of great photography and a view of daily life in one of the world's greatest capitals.Found on Amalias Avenue right opposite Syntagma Square (Parliament) - the three great tragedians of classic...

• Helen of the Dung-Hill: a puzzle contest

  Posted on Monday June 2nd, 2008 at 04:42 in greece, postmodernism, political correctness, the guardian, archeology, subjectivism

  Read the following article carefully. Spot the crap (all of it) and win this month's Golden Ari. Send in your findings before 5th June.The Guardian/The Observer: "DNA explodes Greek myth about women," by Robin McKie, science editor - Hat Tip: Phanti...

• A Lecture from Athens

  Posted on Friday March 28th, 2008 at 12:01 in greece, herakleidon

  Following yesterday's posting "Objective Art: Toulouse-Lautrec - Paris, Athens" detailing the remarkable exhibition at the Herakleidon, "Toulouse-Lautrec and the Belle Epoque in Paris and Athens" running until 4th May, we are happy to announce that o...

• A Van Gogh Treasure for a Greek Partisan's Daughter

  Posted on Thursday January 3rd, 2008 at 09:26 in greece, vincent van gogh

  The daughter of a Greek World War II resistance fighter, writer Doretta Peppa has come into an unique inheritance: a sketchbook said to contain early original drawings belonging to Dutch impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890).The portfoli...

• Greek Art, Coming of Age

  Posted on Sunday December 16th, 2007 at 05:10 in greece, bonham's, herakleidon

  Last Thursday the international auction house Bonhams in London offered for sale over two hundred paintings and works depicting Greek subjects by 19th and 20th century Greek and Foreign artists. The paintings came from private collections.Caption: Ce...

• For the record, Spartans did not throw deformed babies away

  Posted on Friday December 14th, 2007 at 09:30 in greece, sparta, darwinism

  Earlier this year - in a meta review of the movie "300", entitled "Postmodern Fallacy #14: relativism leads to historical barbarism!" - we discussed the ancient legends surrounding the Spartans. One of those stories is, that Spartans were supposed to...

• Demolished Heritage

  Posted on Wednesday November 7th, 2007 at 16:03 in greece, relativism, postmodernism

  If you happened to have read my post yesterday morning, you'll know what I've been up to. I went into town on assignment, hot on the trail of a building in distress. As it happens, it is actually no less than an entire community, and a place represen...

• Exclusive: The Clinton Legacy, The Balkan Caliphate

  Posted on Wednesday October 10th, 2007 at 07:40 in serbia, greece, terrorism, clinton, u.s.a., kosovo, u.k., u.n., albania, organized crime, the balkans

  Last Friday morning the traditional neoclassical building, today the Cultural Center of the University of Indianapolis - an architectonic jewel in the traditional old town of Athens at the foot of the Acropolis mountain - was the scenic theatre of th...

• Preliminary Results Greek General Elections

  Posted on Sunday September 16th, 2007 at 15:54 in greece

  Exit polls and counts after midnight local time show a healthy victory for the Conservative government party, Nea Dimokratia of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. Considering this summer's heavy wildfires - the worst in post World War II history, and...