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Athens: From Polis to Megalopolis

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Athens—the city where Heinrich Schliemann, the discoverer of Troy, built a house and mausoleum for himself, where Mark Twain climbed the Acropolis at night to admire the Parthenon by moonlight, and where Isadora Duncan danced ecstatically in the Theater of Dionysus—is a city today struggling to find a worthy balance between preserving the past and striving for the future. Or, as Giorgio Ierano himself puts it, in his book he depicts Athens as a city "resembling a palimpsest: a manuscript erased and rewritten several times."

Giorgio Ierano dedicated his latest book to Athens, explaining his interest in the ancient city-state transformed into a modern metropolis: "We often travel with the baggage of prejudices and stereotypical images inherited over centuries of Western tradition, from the fantasies of neoclassicism to school textbooks." We remain wedded to clichés and treat ancient monuments as timeless icons. Instead, my book attempts to embed them in its own dramatic and compelling story."
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