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Some Glories of Greece

Some Glories of Greece

Glynn Baugher

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iUniverse
Año de edición:
2020
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Historia
ISBN:
9781663207029
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This is a light and personable account of a quick tour of parts of Greece in 2019. The tour focused on ancient Grecian sites-archaeological wonders and the museums connected with those sites, from the Acropolis to t he original Olympics, from the Agora to Mycenae-and on some of the most appealing places of modern Greece-the beauties of Nafplion and three of the Saronic Islands. The book is lushly illustrated with 100 of the author’s photographs.

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