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Dear visitor of Athens!
You came
from miles away from the other side of the World!
Have a nice
rest in this historic city of Athens!
Ascend the
stairs of its eternal myths!
Talk
with the mythical kings who ruled this city!
Visit
the temples of the gods who protected it!
Admire the
works of creators of culture!
Follow
the way of thinking of its politicians and leaders!
Visit,
along with thousands of other visitors, the Holy rock of Acro-Polis!
Devote
little of your time to the superb Parthenon temple!
Walk the
streets and the squares, the alleys and the monuments of Athens!
Enjoy
the flavors and aromas of the old and the new Athens!
But if the godly heroes and mythical Kings
lived today what would you say?
Take a
look at a small hymn honoring those who have contributed
to make the
Myth of this City!
3000 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST - MYTHIC
PERIOD
Lawful
dweller of the sacred rocky Palace!
Fatherland
of the Ionian tribe descendants!
Oh Mythical
King Cecrops Great Monarch!
You
abolished the human sacrifices!
You brought
the Culture, The Writing, the Reading,
and the Ceremonies to your City – Polis –
State!
1300 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST – MYCENAEN PRE-HOMERIC
PERIOD
Oh Mega
King Erechtheus, High priest, probably Son of Goddess Athena!
Progeny
maybe of Egyptian Kings!
You
saved Athens from hunger you brought plenty of wheat for bread!
You ruled
appropriately and bestowed the name of your mother
to the
inhabitants of this Polis-City "Athenians"!
We, the
humble inhabitants of today, We pay honor
to you!
1100 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST
called
Attica on the southernmost edge of the Balkan Peninsula!
1000-900-800 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST (DORIC PERIOD)
Oh suffering
citizens of Athens, Athenians, in
darkness thrown for nearly 3 centuries by the Dorians.
Oh Big Theseus
splendid King, son of Aegeus and perhaps offspring of Princess Aethra and
Poseidon!
You unified all villages of Attica. You
assembled the multiple tribes of Attica into four!
You created a glorious celebration ceremony with Games the so called “Panathenaea” around Acro-polis!
We own a
crown of gold, glory and honor to you and to your friends Alcmaeonidae and
Megaris, Corinthians and Sikionis!
We
deserve honor also to Dragon 6th BC, as he made Athens again rich, strong and
with more justice!
639-599 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST
Oh Solon
wise Legislator, progeny of the King Codrus!
You
erected the foundations for Democracy!
561-527 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST
Oh Great
Democrat Peisistratus!
Hippias
and Hipparchus populists and pseudo Democrats Excesses power!
You were
granted by the farmers of Attica!
But what
would you do without the help of the wise artists and writers ?
507 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST
Oh Cleisthenes splendid legislator,
reformer and constitutionalist!
You established the 10 tribes and their
representatives 500 senators!
You created with the Ecclesia the senate
of Athens!
Oh Tyrants of oligarchy, or Ten Generals & Rulers of Athens!
No one
is excluded from expulsion!
If
arrogance, nepotism, ambition overwhelms anyone and ignores the commands
of the
people and the Gods and harms democracy!
521-486 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST
Oh foolish King of Persians Darius!
Υou committed a terrible mistake!
Υou committed the same mistake
underestimating the force of the United Greeks!
in 490 BC
in Marathon Battle!
in 480
BC at Thermopylae Battle!
in 480
BC at Salamis island naval Battle!
in 479 at
Plataea Battle!
You misjudged
the Greek Unity and the strength of their
naval fleet!
Under
their leader Admiral Themistocles!
You were
thrashed and returned humiliated to your homeland!
And You Themistocles,
You received
in return for your contribution, the bitter exile 472-471 BC!
432-402 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST GREEK
STATES IN CIVIL WAR
Oh Athenians
commercial and war ships - fleet owners, rulers of the Aegean Sea!
Oh Spartans
rigid warriors, rulers of the Heart of Peloponnesus the Doric Land Arcadia!
Fate for
you the bloodshed and incessant anguish State Civil War!
Oh Great
General Pericles visionary and prematurely Ruler!
You lost
your life from plague epidemic in 429 BC!
You did
not witness the havoc defeat of Athens!
from the Spartan Admiral Lysander 404 BC!
General
Ruler Pericles!
You Are the
inspirer of the construction of the Parthenon!
You were
the mentor of the great artists Phidias Ictinus and Callicrates!
You were
so intelligent and You did brilliant work!
You
united in the Parthenon interior frieze
the tradition
with the democratic renewal of Athens!
You
created a rare balance of the past and the present!
Parthenon
was the Treasury of Athens!
Parthenon
was the place with the golden and ivory statue dedicated to the Goddess Athena!
The
Parthenon frieze and the marbles of the metopes many invaders envied!
Honor to
the famous and anonymous architects, humble laborers, craftsmen!
Honor to
the slaves and cooks, who for 15 years have worked very hard 447-432 to build
Acropolis!
Honor to
those who worked for this Miracle called Parthenon!
CHORUS:
Oh Great
Athenian Rulers!
You
established countless Theaters all round the Greek World!
You created
thousands of artistic statues, monuments and Temples!
You did the
Pnyx the first Assembly of the world and the Agora of Athens!
You did
the Areopagus court and Poikili Gallery (stoa)!
You
inspired the nations of the eastern and western world with your model!
And you Sages,Comedy
or Drama writers!
900-800 (?) BC! Homer, Epic Poet
750-650(?) BC! Hesiod, Greek Poet (Theogonia)
650-594 BC! Draco, lawgiver !
638-558 BC! Solon,Statesman, Lowmaker, Poet
608-528 BC! Peisistratos,Ruler of Athens
570-500 BC! Cleisthenes, Athenian lawgiver
550-467 BC! Aristides, Athens Athenian Statesman and stategos (General)
540-480 BC! Leonidas, warrior King of Sparta, died at Thermopyles 11/8/480bc)
525-455 BC! Aeschylus poet
524-459 BC! Themistocles Admiral
522-443
BC Pindar Poet !
518-452 BC Vacchylides poet!
496-406 BC Sophocles poet!
494-429
BC Pericles Orator, General and Poet !
480-406 BC Euripides
poet!
460-377 BC!Hippocrates, Medicine !
460-370 BC!Democritus, Atomic Theory!
470-399 BC Socrates philosopher !
460-370 BC!Democritus, Atomic Theory!
470-399 BC Socrates philosopher !
445-386
BC Aristophanes poet!
384-322
BC Demosthenes orator!
Write
and sing about the past, the present and the future!
Write and
sing for the good and the right of the battered Homeland Greece!
“We
the sages, poets, songsters and orators
We
have seen wars, unspeakable tragedies and disasters
We
met with fame and glory, ignorance and apathy, but also eternity
We
agree and we simply have to say:
Many
invaders got jealous of or wanted to conquer
Athens with its Acropolis
They
committed more or less insult and received relentless Nemesis..
1.
490-480 BC Persians by Darius and Xerxes
2.
431-404 BC Spartans by Archidamus B
and Lissander!
3.
357-??? BC Macedonian King Philip!
4. ???-??? BC Macedonian Alexander the Great!
5.
86 BC Romans to 160 ad!
6.
267 Heruli and Goths!
7.
435 Byzantines to 1453 ad!
8.
1204 Frank Crusaders !
9.
1204 Burgundians Raiders !
10.
1225 Latinos! From to 1308
11.
1225 Aragoni and Catalans!
12.
1387 The Florentines !
13.
1456 Muslims to 1826!
14.
1680 Venetians!
15.
1687 Francesco Morozini! (explosion in Parthenon)
16.
1801 Elgin Anglo-Saxon removed sculptures from the Parthenon!
17.
1833 French!
18.
1941 German Nazi!
The
Land many invaders conquered but no one dominated the spirit of Athens!
Oh
Athenians occasionally apart and occasionally unified with the rest of Greeks!
With
struggles, sacrifices and blood you gave the proper response
to
intruders and trespassers of freedom and democracy!
Oh
Athenians be proud you endured through uncountable
time!
Oh
Greeks go further on into new fields of glory, freedom and democracy”!
2019
YEARS AFTER CHRIST!
Oh dear visitors
of the town!
Be given the joy of the monuments of the
City!
Tourism may be interrelated with Peace,
Culture and Solidarity between people!
Under the auspices of the Glorious
Acropolis, eternal abode of tradition of art and freedom!
Note (*): the above historical data is constantly
subject improvements!
Sources: Blue Guides Hachette-Giallelis,
Wikipedia, M. Karagatsis,
Luigi Mpeski, elements of the History of
Paparigopoyloy etc.
Date
19/9/2018. Christos Roumeliotis, e-mail: novus.sales@gmail.com
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