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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why economics is the most important drama of our times. In answering his daughter's deceptively simple questions, Varoufakis disentangles our troubling world with remarkable clarity, while inspiring us to make it a better one. 'Utterly accessible, deeply humane and startlingly original - a potent democratic tool at the perfect time' Naomi Klein

Το βιβλίο "Η Ακρόπολη μέσα από το Μουσείο της" δεν είναι ένας απλός οδηγός μουσείου. Παρουσιάζοντας τα έργα τέχνης που εκτίθενται στο μουσείο, προσπαθεί να ανασυνθέσει την ιστορία του ιερού βράχου ως μέρος του πολιτιστικού και του ευρύτερου ιστορικού γίγνεσθαι της αρχαίας Αθήνας. Το βιβλίο ακολουθεί την πορεία του επισκέπτη στο μουσείο, ώστε να μπορεί κάποιος να μελετήσει και να διαβάσει για τα αρχαία που εκτίθενται μπροστά του. Είναι όμως έτσι γραμμένο ώστε και με αυτόνομη μελέτη να έχει τη δυνατότητα ο αναγνώστης να προσεγγίσει τα θέματα βαθύτερα και να κατανοήσει τις προϋποθέσεις - πολιτικές, κοινωνικές, οικονομικές, ιδεολογικές, καλλιτεχνικές και τεχνολογικές - που οδήγησαν στα μοναδικά έργα της Ακρόπολης. Το βιβλίο περιέχει πλουσιότατη εικονογράφηση με φωτογραφίες αλλά και πολλά σχέδια και αναπαραστάσεις, που δίνουν τη δυνατότητα να γίνουν κατανοητά τα αποσπασματικά σωζόμενα έργα το καθένα στο πλαίσιό του. Επίσης το βιβλίο απαντά σε πολλά από τα ερωτήματα που γεννιούνται στους αναγνώστες αλλά και σε όλους τους υποψιασμένους αρχαιόφιλους, όπως π.χ. πόσο ήταν το μέγεθος της αρχαίας Αθήνας και πόσος ο πληθυσμός της, τι σήμαιναν τα θηρία στα μεγάλα αρχαϊκά αετώματα, τι αντιπροσώπευαν τα αγάλματα των Κορών, γιατί το Ερεχθείο έγινε τόσο σύνθετο και ποιος ο ρόλος των Καρυατύδων, γιατί ο ναός της Αθηνάς Νίκης έγινε ιωνικός, τι οδήγησε τον Περικλή και τους συμβούλους του στην επιλογή του συγκεκριμένου οικοδομικού προγράμματος και πώς χρηματοδοτήθηκαν τα μεγάλα έργα, γιατί αποφάσισαν να τοποθετήσουν ιωνική ζωφόρο στον δωρικό Παρθενώνα, ποια πολιτικά μηνύματα έστελναν προς τη Σπάρτη μέσα από τον γλυπτό διάκοσμο του Παρθενώνα κ.ά.

A small, sun-drenched plain with a precipitous rock at its centre, a broad platform at its peak and valuable springs with drinking waters at its foot. The people of the prehistoric era could not have ignored such an advantageous site. And indeed, excavations at the top and the slopes of the Acropolis have revealed traces of settlement dating from the late Neolithic period (ca 3500-3200 BC).This habitation continued over the following periods, the Early Bronze Age (3200/3000-2200/2000 BC) and the Middle Bronze Age (2200/2000-1600 BC). In the second millennium BC the population of Attica was reinforced. A new tribe, the lonians, arrived from the north and merged with the indigenous population, which tradition holds were the Pelasgians. From around the middle of the same millennium a brilliant prehistoric civilisation started to flourish on mainland Greece, the Mycenaean civilisation which took its name from its most important centre, the town of Mycenae. During the Mycenaean period (1600-1100 BC) the inhabitants of the Acropolis lived in groups on the slopes and at the peak of the rock. They worshipped their ancient goddess Athena here, on the top of the Acropolis hill, where the palace of the local king also stood. (...)

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self. In today's increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to look for love and desire within the "inferno of the same." Han offers a survey of the threats to Eros, drawing on a wide range of sources-Lars von Trier's film Melancholia, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde,Fifty Shades of Grey, Michel Foucault (providing a scathing critique of Foucault's valorization of power), Martin Buber, Hegel, Baudrillard, Flaubert, Barthes, Plato, and others. Han considers the "pornographication" of society, and shows how pornography profanes eros; addresses capitalism's leveling of essential differences; and discusses the politics of eros in today's "burnout society." To be dead to love, Han argues, is to be dead to thought itself. Concise in its expression but unsparing in its insight, The Agony of Eros is an important and provocative entry in Han's ongoing analysis of contemporary society. This remarkable essay, an intellectual experience of the first order, affords one of the best ways to gain full awareness of and join in one of the most pressing struggles of the day: the defense, that is to say-as Rimbaud desired it-the "reinvention" of love. -from the foreword by Alain Badiou

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great.

But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much?

Here, Edith Hall gives us a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, visiting different communities at various key moments during twenty centuries of ancient history.

Identifying ten unique traits central to the widespread ancient Greeks, Hall unveils a civilization of incomparable richness and a people of astounding complexity – and explains how they made us who we are today.

It's time for us to re-examine the past. Our lives are infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in politics and law, religion and philosophy and education, and to learn how people really lived in Athens, Rome, Sparta and Alexandria. This is a book with a serious point to make but the author isn't simply a classicist but a comedian and broadcaster who has made television and radio documentaries about humour, education and Dorothy Parker. This is a book for us all.

Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora.

My name is Vassilis Kallidis & I’m a chef, a restaurant owner, a book author, I host my travel and cooking tv show but above all I’m a foodie & a passionate traveler. This is my third guide book devoted to the city of Athens, the city I live & love most. This is not a proper city guide including all the musts & the do’s. I want you to see the real face of Athens, to eat, drink & walk like a local. I made a selection of places I adore and every time I visit I say to myself “Damn, the fish here is so fresh I wish the tourists knew this place!” Traveling around the world I know how it feels to be lost, first couple of days, visiting a vast city. I’m desperate to find what the locals eat in holes in the wall, with no waste of time. I always wish someone wrote a guide with real information, not just for tourists. This is what I did here for my friends visiting Athens & you all. Enjoy my book and the city!