Athens John L. Tomkinson This volume includes stories about the Acropolis, Areopagos Hill, Thesion Hill, Pnyx Hill, Museion Hill, the Ilissos Quarter, the Palace Quarter, the Cathedral Quarter, the Commercial Quarter, Lycabettos, Ampelokipi, Plaka, Monastiraki, Psiri, Metaxurgeio, Botanikos, Kifissia, Maroussi, Pendeli, Halandri, Filothei, Kaisariani, Papagou, Dafni, Haidari, Korydallos, Kokkinia, Piraeus, Faliron, Nea Smyrni, Glyfada, Vari and Vouliagmeni. Contents include: The Amazons in Athens: Fable or History? A Plot to Kill Churchill in the Grande Bretagne A Roman Meteorological Station The Real Secrets of the Parthenon The “Hard Men” of Old Athens Did Byron Really Love the Maid of Athens? An Athenian “Rififi” When the Three Fates Visited Every Child Swastika over the Acropolis Did Lord Elgin Steal the Parthenon Marbles? The World’s First University Town The Plaka Orphan Girl who Murdered her Son - and Became an Empress and a Saint The Greek Dimension of Watergate The Subterranean Museums of Athens The First Modern Olympic Games The Revenge of a Bitter God The 'Christmas Spirits' of Old Athens The Column which Imprisons the Plague The Iron Bedstead of Death A Dying Saint and an Underground Tunnel A Dead Hero and a National Disaster A Cannibal Island Twenty Miles from Athens A Monastery Born of a Romance The “Bastille” of Greece How the Allies Starved Occupied Greece When Greeks were Hunted for Sport An Island Concentration Camp The Oldest Family Name in the World A Fortune Hidden Behind a Wall A Girl who Went to Join the Nymphs A Vision over Mount Hymettos A “No” which Altered the Course of the Second World War Self-Castration and the Bloody Rites of the Great Goddess An Eccentric Duchess, her daughter's corpse, and a Brigand with a Heart of Gold The First Ever “Marathon Man” A City Built Over a Lake ...and much, much more Old price 20 euro: new price 16 euro. Bibliographical Details Price:   16.00 €