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Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Vomit, bleeding nipples, and hallucinations on a 150-mile running race

The Spartathlon is thus a low-key example of a grand tradition, that of foreign visitors entranced by the idea of classical Greece. Western support for Greece in its war of independence in the 1820s was predicated on the philhellenistic idea that modern ...


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