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Richard Bonson, Stewart Ross

The book’s main story takes place in 416 BC Greece. It is the story of a young man competing in the Olympic Games, told in the form of a graphic novel. After a brief plot overview and the historical background, the story continues around the border of every page, whilst the centre of each page is filled with factual information. The plot of the story focuses on a young Athenian man named Kinesias and his journey to and attendance of the Olympic Games. Kinesias dreams of personal succe(...)

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YEAR: 2004

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Agora Apollo Athena Athens Masks Olympic Games Oracles Peloponnesian War Pottery / Vases Sparta Theatre

Kalliope Kyrdi, Evi Pini

Glafki at the Athenian Agora [Με τη Γλαύκη στην Αρχαία Αγορά της Αθήνας (Me tī Gláfkī stīn Archaía Agorá tīs Athī́nas)]

The opening page, entitled “instead of a preface,” explains that the book is about an explorative journey to the past, for which teachers and parents can prepare children before visiting the Agora. A talking bird guides children throughout the book. Appropriately, for Athens, the bird is an owl called “Glafki”, and we are given information about its symbolism in ancient Greece and about owls nesting in the Acropolis today. An illustration with a reconstructed view o(...)

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YEAR: 2008

COUNTRY: Greece

TAGS: Agora Apollo Artemis Athena Ergane Attalos II Cimon / Kimon Eponymous Heroes Hephaestus Hephaisteion Hermes Ostracism Pindar Poseidon Pottery / Vases

Eleni Svoronou , Mark Weinstein

Shall we go to Athens? [Πάμε στην Αθήνα; (Páme stīn Athī́na?)]

The book’s purpose is to offer young children an overview of Athens’ history and monuments. The author and the illustrator invite children to walk through Athens, to observe sights and architecture, and to think logically and creatively via the book’s exercises. The front cover depicts the Parthenon and the New Acropolis Museum. These two buildings appear on more pages of the book. Readers will likely form an impression, and with good reason, that this guide is mostly abou(...)

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YEAR: 2010

COUNTRY: Greece

TAGS: Acropolis Agora Apeliotes Athena Cecrops Cleisthenes / Clisthenes Hadrian Hephaisteion Kerameikos Muses Nymphs Odeon of Herodes Atticus (Athens) Peisistratus Pericles Pheidias / Phidias Pnyx Poseidon Temple of the Olympian Zeus Theatre of Dionysos Theseus

Natalia Kapatsoulia, Filippos Mandilaras

Solon. The Wise Statesman [Σόλωνας, ο σοφός νομοθέτης (Sólōnas, o sofós nomothétīs)]

Solon is presented, right from the book’s opening page, as a wise and well-travelled individual who set the foundations of Athenian democracy. The city-states of Solon’s time were governed by tyrants. Solon travelled around the world, studying the laws of different places. When he returned to Athens, the book continues, people were distressed that the Megarians had taken over Salamis. After Solon’s motivational speech in the Agora, the Athenians followed his crafty plan to figh(...)

literary

YEAR: 2011

COUNTRY: Greece

TAGS: Agora Areopagus / Areios Pagos Athens Croesus Cyprus Egypt Heliaia Lydia Megara (Polis) Salamis Solon