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Kate Tempest: A 21st Century London Poet – Musing and Rapping on Greek myths 04 April 2015     by James C. Stratis We can be inspired by words, the art of words as in the inspirational art of poetry. Previously1 …

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Kommos Archaeological Site Master Planning Coordination 14 March 2014       by ASCSA Director James Wright At the 2014 annual OPEN MEETING of the American School of Classical Studies of Athens, Dr. James Wright discussed the progress made in …

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Posted for James Stratis. During the fourth season of the Kommos excavation in 1979 the team from the University of Toronto, discovered, amongst other finds, two faience statues of Egyptian deities – Sekhmet (AB85) and Nefertum (AB86). The fact that …

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Building P Minoan Shipsheds by Joe Wynn

By Alexander Assaf Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.~Nikos Kazantzakis The bright sun beat down on the plains overlooking the distant Rocky Mountains. In the midst of this landscape ouzo flowed, the crowds dined on saganaki …

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Fig 1. Akrotiri Thera fresco segment. Fig 2. Minoan ship reconstruction Hania, Crete Posted for James Stratis: I received a tweet, copied below, of a brief notice from Bernard Knapp, Friday 11 January 2013 that made me think of L. …

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