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Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day

di Philip Matyszak

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Welcome to Athens in 431 BC! This entertaining guide provides all the information a tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Athens at its pinnacle of greatness more than 2000 years ago. Travel via Thermopylae, the Oracle at Delphi, and the site of the epic Battle of Marathon to the city of Athena, goddess of wisdom. Meet Socrates, Thucydides, Phidias, and others who are among the greatest philosophers, writers, and artists who ever lived. Encounter ordinary Athenians in the marketplace and at the theater and learn the true character of one of the most extraordinary cities of any age.Of course, ancient Athens was not all art, intellect, and politics. This well-researched yet irreverently unacademic guide also plunges gleefully into the hedonistic side of Athenian life with wine-sodden symposiums, brothels, and brawls, advising the reader to avoid slatternly prostitutes and inns where the beds are infested with bugs, and warning that both torches and an escort are needed to avoid muggers after an evening on the town.Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day takes you through the raucous city crowds to the serene heights of the Parthenon and evokes the wonder of a city where the monuments and ideas that form the bedrock of Western culture are as fresh and new as the garlands of flowers on Athena's altar.… (altro)
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This is a very different guide book; definitely one like no other. For starters, don't think you can use this in modern-day Greece. It's a time machine of sorts. You explore ancient Athens as if you are a tourist from 2,500 years ago. In addition, it is full of humor. Where else can you learn how to say "Unhand my wife immediately, you drunken unpleasant fellow" in Greek? Matyszak calls this a "useful phrase" to know! But that's how Matyszak's entire "guide" is - full of humor and wit. ( )
  SeriousGrace | Jan 14, 2013 |
Briljant bedacht: een reisgids in de stijl van Lonely Planet over het Athene van de 5e eeuw voor christus. In Het oude Athene voor vijf obelen per dag van Philip Matyszak wordt geschiedenis op een grappige en informatieve manier toegankelijk gemaakt. Met uit de de Lonely Planet serie herkenbare hoofdstukken als "wat valt er te beleven", "wat je zeker moet gaan zien" en "nuttige zinnetjes" wordt Athene en de Griekse maatschappij van die tijd op een speelse manier toegelicht.

Zo wordt in het onderdeel "je weg vinden" uitgelegd dat Atheners geen straatnamen gebruiken, dus een adres gaat altijd samen met een uitleg hoe je er moet komen. Bijvoorbeeld: in Melite, aan het zuidelijk deel van de weg naast de Tempel van Herakles. Maar let op! Athene is bezaaid met tempels dus vraag na welke van de tientallen tempels van Herakles wordt bedoeld.

Als attractie van Athene worden ook de mannen met "brains" aangeprezen. Ga eens filosoferen met Sokrates, je vindt hem over het algemeen op de Agora. Hij is gemakkelijk te herkennen omdat hij in gezelschap altijd de lelijkste is: kijk uit naar een kalend, schriel mannetje met een bierbuik, kikkerogen en dikke vlezige lippen. Ga trouwens 's avonds nooit alleen of zonder fakkel op stap, want de dieven zijn overal.

Zo staat het Het oude Athene voor vijf obolen per dag vol met tips en interessante wetenswaardigheden voor de bezoeker. Voor wie meer wil weten over echte leven in Athene die tijd, zonder droge feitjes en jaartallen, is dit het ideale geschiedenisboek.
  BieblogHengelo | Nov 20, 2009 |
Bij vergelijking met de Engelstalige omslag blijkt dat het omslag en de boekverzorging van de Nederlandstalige editie, van de hand van Nanja Toebak, overduidelijk de Lonely Planet-reeks parodiëren ('Planeta solita'), wat volgens mij ook in de bedoeling lag van de auteur. ( )
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Welcome to Athens in 431 BC! This entertaining guide provides all the information a tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Athens at its pinnacle of greatness more than 2000 years ago. Travel via Thermopylae, the Oracle at Delphi, and the site of the epic Battle of Marathon to the city of Athena, goddess of wisdom. Meet Socrates, Thucydides, Phidias, and others who are among the greatest philosophers, writers, and artists who ever lived. Encounter ordinary Athenians in the marketplace and at the theater and learn the true character of one of the most extraordinary cities of any age.Of course, ancient Athens was not all art, intellect, and politics. This well-researched yet irreverently unacademic guide also plunges gleefully into the hedonistic side of Athenian life with wine-sodden symposiums, brothels, and brawls, advising the reader to avoid slatternly prostitutes and inns where the beds are infested with bugs, and warning that both torches and an escort are needed to avoid muggers after an evening on the town.Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day takes you through the raucous city crowds to the serene heights of the Parthenon and evokes the wonder of a city where the monuments and ideas that form the bedrock of Western culture are as fresh and new as the garlands of flowers on Athena's altar.

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