The Sites of Ancient Greece
Published on 10. April 2012
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-7148-6084-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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
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Persons
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.
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.