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ΤΟΥ ΑΔΑΜ (ΜΑΚΗ) Γ.

ΚΡΑΣΑΝΑΚΗ
Athens, the capital and largest city of Greece, the oldest and most
famous city in the world
«"Our city (Athens) is acknowledged as the most ancient,
the largest and the most famous one in the entire world.
(Isocrates "Festive“ , 23 -25)
Athens, Acropolis
The Parthenon, Acropolis
General view of Athens,
Acropolis, odium etc
“Oh you glimmering and violet-crowned world-renowned Athens,
multi-chanted pillar of Hellas (Greece), inspiring city!” ( Pindar, 518- 438 b.C.)
ΑΕΡΟΛΙΜΕΝΑΣ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ
◼ The urban area of Athens, ie the area of Athens and its suburbs, has a population
of 2,732,875 inhabitants according to the census of 2011. The site comprises a
total of 35 municipalities and the City of Athens occupied the center, has a
population of 664 046 (census 2011) and an area of 39 square kilometers.
Olympic athletic centre of Athens (OAKA)
Olympic Games in 2004
ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΚΟ ΣΤΑΔΙΟ (ΟΑΚΑ)
Olympic athletic centre of Athens (OAKA)
Olympic Games in 2004
The city of the Athenians, according to Apollothoros (ancient writer), was built by
the king of Attica Kekrops, who reigned according to the Pario Chronicle the
year 1318 prior to the Diognito = 1582 b.C., and for the city’s name invited the
Gods to compete.
First came to compete the god of the sea, Poseidon, who proposed to king Kekrops
that the city be named after him, that is to say be named "Poseidonia" and as a
reward he would declare the city ruler of the seas.
Of course, in order to prove the validity of his commitment he struck with his trident
the enormous rock of the hill (the rock of Acropolis) and from this action
immediately sprung seawater.
Afterwards came Athena, the goddess of wisdom, the goddess Athena
The goddess Athena proposed that the city be named after her, that is to say be
named "Athena" and that she would reward the city with prosperity. Of course, in
order to prove the validity of her commitment she struck the rock of the hill with
her spear and from this action immediately grew an olive tree.
◼ Shortly thereafter, the 12 Olympian gods (i.e. Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demetra,
Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hestia) as critics
of the competition, declared Athena the victor, whose wisdom helped create the
magnificent city-state of Athens with its unsurpassed Athenian culture.
The Academy of Athens,
ATHENS, TEMPLE OF OLYMPIAN ZEUS
◼ Previously the city of Athens refers to the plural: “ΑΘΗΝΑ - Athenians" (Athens,
hence the translation Athens in English), and was a "settlement" of the scattered
municipalities of Attica, which according to legend joined Theseus.
◼ Especially in Attica, according to ancient writers, there were the following 12
districts - Kingdoms: Piraeus, Eleusis, Kifissia, the Kekropia the most of the
quartet, the Kythira, the Dhekelia, the Aphidnes the Thorikos the Brauron and
Kydathinaio (located near the Acropolis).
◼ The above districts joined Theseus the year 987 before the Diognito (= 1251 BC),
according to the Parian Chronicle, creating thus created the famous borough of
the Athenians - hence the so-called "settlement of Theseus."
◼ Όταν ο Θησέας συνένωσε τις συνοικίες της Αττικής επέβαλε η ένωση αυτή να
διοικείται όχι από ένα άτομο, αλλά από ένα όργανο που να αποτελείται από ένα
αντιπρόσωπο της κάθε συνοικίας αντί να υπάρχει κάποιος βασιλιάς ή ένας μόνο
αρχηγός.
◼ Το σώμα, ο λαός που προέκυψε ονομάστηκε «δήμος» και το νέο σύστημα
διακυβέρνησης «δημοκρατία».
ΠΛΑΤΕΙΑ ΣΥΝΤΑΓΜΑΤΟΣ
Greek parliament
Syntagma Square: The main square of Athens
Evzones in front of the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier
Syntagma square
Δημαρχείο Αθήνας
The Athenians were of Hellenic (Greek) and particularly Pelasgian origin, according
to Herodotus (H, 44).
Pelasgians were called the natives, the first residents (indigenous) of Greece,
whose main sects (races) were, the: Ionians, Achaeans', Dorians and the Aeolians.
According to Pario Chronicle, Herodotus, D. Sikeliotis, Stravon etc, in 1500 b.C. the
Danaeans, the Kadmeans and the Jews were expelled from Egypt and from them
the Danaeans went to Greece and mixed with the Achaeans of Argos (=
Peloponnese, and thus Achaeans = Danaeans = Argoes) and the Kadmeans via
Egypt and Phoenicia went to Viotia where they built the city of Thebes, in memory
of (Egyptian) Thebes.
.
The Athenian ancient writers: Xenofon (Epitaph 4), Plato (Menexenos, 245 c-d),
Isocrates etc
called the Athenians ‘natives’ and also ‘noble’ Greeks, that is to say superior and
genuinely pure, (autochthonous, endemic) Greeks, because:
A) in Attica there had never lived any barbarians, as there had been in Peloponnesus
where the Pelopes and Danaeans had gone and in Viotia where the Kadmeans or
Thebans had gone.
B) B) The Athenians had never conquered any other Greeks, as had done for example
the Dorian Spartans who had left from Sterea Hellas (Dorida) and had gone and
occupied (conquests) their Achaeans (Messenians, Argoians, and others) in
Peloponnesus.
ΘΗΣΕΙΟ, ΝΑΟΣ ΗΦΑΙΣΤΟΥ
◼ Herodotus (A, 57- 58), Hecataeus of Miletus (Strabo 7, 321), Thucydides (A, 3 -9),
Plato (Menexenus) etc. states that initially and the Greeks were barbarians,
particularly in Greece there were too many barbaric leaves the populous
Pelasgians, who lived migration for finding food sources, because not yet
invented agriculture.
◼ Then cut out the Pelasgians Dorians (= the Spartans and Macedonians) and
were apart nation, the Greek, which joined after all Pelasgians (= Ionians or
Athenians, Aeolians Thessaly etc.) and many other barbarians (the Danaans, the
Kadmeians Thebes, the Pelops etc.).
◼ The ancient writers also mention that Kadmeians Thebes and Danaans, along
with Jews, expelled from Egypt in 1500 BC and of these Danaans went to the
Peloponnese where they were joined in peace with the Achaeans of Argos and
Kadmeians went to Boeotia where built Thebes.
◼ Shortly before the Trojan War left some Phrygians from Asia led by Pelops
(hence Pelops and Peloponnese) and went and conquered the Peloponnese.
◼ Then, after the Trojan War, the Dorians left (sheet of Pelasgians and this = the
Spartans and Macedonians) from Pindos driven by Herakleidae (exiled royal
family of Argos) and went and conquered the cities of the Peloponnese to settle
again the throne the Herakleidae But after the Dorians did not return to their
place, but remained in the Peloponnese and helped create the famous poleiteia
Lacedaemonian (Sparta).
Statue of Theodoros Kolokotronis in front of the
old Parliament House
The old Parliament House
ΠΛΑΤΕΙΑ ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑΣ
◼ Athens became the capital of Greece in 1834. After the liberation of Greece from
the Turkish capital of Greece took place in Nafplio.
◼ Earlier there was the capital of Greece, because ancient Greece was not a single
state, but many specific to each city-region was a separately state: Athens,
Sparta, Knossos etc. Just occasionally some pali- state of them was ruler .
Hippias the Illios (Plato's Protagoras, 337 D) calls the ancient Athens 'Prytaneion of
wisdom "and Diodorus Siculus' public seminary of all mankind.“
Athens had a library from the 7th century b.C. and it is also the homeland, the
birthplace of Socrates, Plato, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and so many other
people who helped to create, to express and record the first cultivated and
philosophical thought of the man who guides us today.
So Athens is the city of culture, the place where the letters were developed,
democracy, humanism, philosophy, science etc..
"Our city (Athens) has exceeded by so much the rest of the other people in regard to
‘thought and reason’, so much so that her students have become schoolteachers
of others whereby the name of the Greeks is being used henceforth not as
defining our origin, but to define the cultivated mind and to call even much more
Greeks those who possess our own education and training, instead of those who
belong to the same race with us.“ (Isocrates, "Panegyrikos, 50").
The ancienta writers: Herodotus (History), Plato (Menexenos, Laws D, 106), Stravon,
Diodorus and others report that due to the heroes and the dead of Athens and
Sparta in the ground-fields and naval sea-battles: Thermopiles, Plataies, Salamis
and others that not only Greece, but the entire continent of Europe avoided
becoming the land of barbarians.
.
“For Athens alone among her contemporaries is found when tested to be greater
than her reputation”, (Pericles’s Funeral Oration, Thucydides 431 b.C.)
◼ Demosthenes the orator with his reasoning speeches prompted the Greeks to
bestow upon Athens the hegemony of all Greece, because it is the city of wisdom
(intelligent) and from wisdom (through discoveries and inventions) all people
profit,instead of Sparta or Pella of Macedonia, because these were the cities of
physical exercise and force, and that from force no one benefits except the only
one who possesses it.
ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ,
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Πανεπιστήμιο ΑΘΗΝΩΝ
NATIONAL MUSEUM
MUSEUM
ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ
ΖΑΠΕΙΟ ΜΕΓΑΡΟ
ΠΑΝΑΘΗΝΑΙΚΟ ΣΤΑΔΙΟ
ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΗ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ
ΑΙΓΑΙΟ - ΠΕΙΡΑΙΑΣ
Merchant port of Piraeus
ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΟ ΛΙΜΑΝΙ ΠΕΙΡΑΙΑ
ΑΙΓΑΙΟΝ ΠΕΛΑΓΟΣ - ΠΕΙΡΑΙΑΣ
ΛΙΜΑΝΙ “ZEAS”
Tourist port Zeas
ΜΙΚΡΟΛΙΜΑΝΟ
ΑΚΤΗ ΦΑΛΗΡΟ
ΝΈΟ ΦΑΛΗΡΟ
ΣΑΡΟΝΙΚΟΣ - ΦΑΛΗΡΟ
ΣΤΑΔΙΟ ΚΑΡΑΙΣΚΑΚΗ
ΣΤΑΔΙΟ ΕΙΡΗΝΗΣ
◼ Thucydides (A 2-28) states that after the victory of the Greeks over the Persians,
the Athenians and the Spartans emerged two most powerful forces in Greece,
and thus all the ancient known world.
◼ The Athenians at sea and the Spartans on land.
ΑΘΗΝΑΙΚΗ ΤΡΙΗΡΗΣ – ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΠΟΛΕΜΙΚΟ ΝΑΥΤΙΚΟ
◼ In 2000 the Greek shipping (ships under Greek and foreign flags), according
to data from the Ministry of Merchant Shipping, was again the first maritime
power in the world.
◼ Specifically, 15.5% of world shipping tonnage it was in Greek hands.
◼ ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΗ-ΜΕΛΕΤΗ: ΑΔΑΜ (ΜΑΚΗΣ) Γ. ΚΡΑΣΑΝΑΚΗΣ
◼ ΦΩΤΟ ΚΑΙ ΒΙΝΤΕΟ: ΚΡΑΣΑΝΑΚΗΣ ADAMANTIOS (KRASSANAKIS.GR), ΒΙΚΙΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ ,
MRS BUNNY, DAVIDSBEENHERE.COM , MICHELIS.COM κ.α.
◼ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ-ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙ: M. ΜΕΡΚΟΥΡΗ, Ν. ΞΥΛΟΥΡΗΣ, ΕΥΓ. ΠΑΠΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΟΥ,
ΛΟΥΔΟΒΙΚΟΣ, ΞΑΡΧΑΚΟΣ – ΠΑΠΑΜΙΧΑΗΛ, ΚΑΖΑΝΤΖΙΔΗΣ - ΜΑΡΙΝΕΛΑ κ.α.
◼ ΠΟΛΥΤΙΜΗ ΒΟΗΘΕΙΑ: ΔΗΜΟΣ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ, ΠΟΕ ΥΠΠΟ κ.α.
TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH
ΑRT PERTHIKIS
ΠΕΡΙΣΟΤΕΡΑ (FOR MORE SEE THΕ BOOK):
«ATHENS» BY ADAN (MAKIS) KRASANAKIS
«Η ΑΘΗΝΑ» ΤΟΥ ΑΔΑΜ (ΜΑΚΗ) Γ. ΚΡΑΣΑΝΑΚΗΣ

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