TRACES OF ANTIQUITY IN THE GREEK LANDSCAPE

Παρουσίαση

In our joint career as photographers and insatiable travellers, we have both wandered on continents, we have known peoples and cultures and we have photographed places, nature and people.
But we were most moved when, in our travels to the ancient sites of Greece, we discovered our own homeland. Every discovery was a surprise: this was our feeling at the moment we contemplated the singularity of the landscape. The ancient ruins that we saw were not ghosts of the past. They resembled living parts of our history, absolutely integrated into the magical nature surrounding them.
"When you travel in Greece, you will see that the statues belong to the landscape. The stones are there in front of you, too, so that you can touch them and caress them with your hand." These were the words of George Seferis to Edmund Keeley.
At the same time, this journey through Greece became an internal voyage, with feeling and emotion. We wanted to convey through our photographs the fascination of this place, its myths, its ancient memories and the beauty of the landscape, and to breathe life into these remnants of history. (Maria Fakidi, Dora Minaidi, from the photographers' introductory note)

Περιεχόμενα

PREFACE by Giannis Sakellarakis
PHOTOGRAPHERS' INTRODUCTORY NOTE
ATTICA
PELOPONNESE
CENTRAL GREECE
Aetolia and Acarnania
Epirus
Corfu
Phocis, Phthiotis and Boeotia
Thessaly
MACEDONIA
THRACE - SAMOTHRACE
ISLAND GREECE
Lesbos
Samos
Leros
Kos
Rhodes
Andros
Delos
Naxos
Thera
Crete
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
GLOSSARY