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CATALOGUE 2014-2015

In 2015 Kapon Editions celebrates thirtyfive years of constructive and creative work. Sailing against the wind, it remains true to a traditional publishing philosophy committed to producing choice books in which the persistent care for excellent aesthetic presentation, clear and eloquent texts, and original high-quality illustration are evident. At Kapon Editions we believe that each book is a fascinating journey into the world of knowledge, both for its authors and publishers, and for its readers. MOSES & RACHEL KAPON

ACADEMY OF ATHENS AWARD

In 2010 Rachel Kapon received an award from the Academy of Athens for her artistic achievement overall in the sector of scholarly publications relating to the monuments of the Greek past, extolling her success in giving books on art and archaeology new form.

CONTENTS

ArCHAEOLOGY

ArT

THEATrΕ

ArCHiTECTUrE

EnvirOnmEnT

SCiEnCE

HiSTOrY

LiTErATUrE

Sculpture

In the National Archaeological Museum, Athens

NIKOLAOS KALTSAS

Director of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens

ACADEMY OF ATHENS AWARD

A publication of international standards, which records fully all the groups of sculptures and reliefs that are the treasures of the Museum. Τelephos, Kathimerini

ARCHAEOLOGY

The volume presents all the sculptures exhibited in the Museum, unfolding before the reader’s eyes a creative course spanning a thousand years. The catalogue entries, written in a clear and comprehensible manner, are not addressed solely to specialists but to all those interested in works of ancient Greek art. The introduction gives a panorama of ancient Greek sculpture in its historical context, from the Geometric period until Roman times.

Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece PANOS VALAVANIS

Professor of Classical Archaeology, Athens University Foreword: Sir JΟΗΝ BΟΑRDMAN Professor Emeritus, Oxford University

Religious worship, fertility ritual, man’s preparation for war, competition to enhance the first and the best, love and death are interwoven in the starting line of this complex and multi-level phenomenon of the games, which the author negotiates exhaustively. Paraskevi Katimertzi, Ta Nea

The book Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece attempts to give prominence to the close connection between ancient games, gods, heroes and their sanctuaries. The pages of this publication present four major Panhellenic festivals, the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian festivals, and one great local celebration, the Panathenaia, along with the sanctuaries at which the games were held: Olympia, Delphi, Nemea, Isthmia and Athens respectively. The buildings and general plans of the ancient sanctuaries, the achievements of the gods and heroes, the primeval myths and the history of the games are all set forth in clear, academically documented texts. Views of the sites, plans, a variety of finds from the excavations –sculptures and pottery, metalworks, coins and inscriptions– illustrate the texts and give a clear picture of both the sanctuaries and games and also the ancient myths. 448 pages | 25×31.5 cm | 650 illustrations, 40 drawings, 10 maps | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7037-42-8 | English 13 978-960-7037-43-5 | € 117

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Great Moments in Greek Archaeology COLLECTIVE WORK

Academic Coordinator: PANOS VALAVANIS Professor of Classical Archaeology, Athens University Prologue: ANGELOS DELIVORRIAS Professor, Director of the Benaki Museum GEORGE F. BASS Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University / ALBERTO G. BENVENuTI General Secretary of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens / GEORGE CH. CHOuRMOuzIADIS Professor Emeritus of Archaeology / CHRISTOS DOuMAS Professor Emeritus of Archaeology / STELLA DROuGOu Professor of Classical Archaeology / SPYROS IAKOVIDES Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, Member of the Athens Academy / EVANGELOS CH. KAKAVOYIANNIS Hononary Ephor of Antiquities / VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS

Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, Member of the Athens Academy, Director of the A.G. Levendis Foundation / HELMuT KYRIELEIS Former Director of the German Archaeological Institute / COLIN F. MACDONALD Archaeologist, Member of the British School at Athens / FANI MALOuCHOu-TuFANO Ph.D. in Archaeology, Head of the Documentation Office of the Acropolis Restoration Service / DOMINIquE MuLLIEz Director of the French School at Athens / WOLF-DIETRICH NIEMEIER Director of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens / VASILEIOS PETRAKOS General Secretary of the Archaeological Society at Athens, Member of the Athens Academy /ΑLIKI SAMARA-KAuFFMANN Ph.D. in Archaeology, Academic expert at the Louvre Museum / MARINA SOPHRONIDOu Ph.D. in Archaeology / GEORGIOS STEINHAuER Honorary Ephor of Antiquities, Former Director of the Piraeus Museum / JuTTA STROSzECK Ph.D. in Archaeology / HARRY E. TzALAS President of the Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition / PANOS VALAVANIS Professor of Archaeology / SuSAN WOMER-KATzEV Excavator

Twenty-one major discoveries made in Greece over the last two hundred years –from the first excavations on the Acropolis to the amazing finds from Vergina– are presented in this unique book. Photographs of the most important finds at the moment of their revelation and as they are exhibited today in the museums, bring to life historical memories. The last two chapters narrate the thrilling circumstances of the finding of individual chefs d’oeuvre of Greek sculpture, such as the Venus of Milo, the Victory of Samothrace, and others, as well as the bronze statues brought up from the depths of the sea. Last, an introductory text by Academician Vasileios Petrakos presents the historical framework and the development of Greek archaeology from the founding of the Greek State to the present day.

ARCHAEOLOGY

...These ancient treasures, together with historic photographs of the major excavations, aerial panoramas of splendid sites, old watercolors and lithographs, and 19th-century architectural renderings, are enough to leave a deep impression on anyone with a drop of philhellenic blood...

Steve Coates, The New York Times

This original study presents the masterpieces exhibited in the Acropolis Museum in relation to the Sacred Rock and the historical developments in ancient Athens. The visitor is fully informed through photographs, drawings and reconstructions, which place the now fragmentary works in their historical and artistic context. The book may be used also for further study, as the reader is offered the opportunity of understanding the connection between the objects exhibited in the museum and the monuments on the Acropolis.

The Acropolis through its Museum PANOS VALAVANIS

Professor of Classical Archaeology, Athens University

...The book has a dual purpose: on the one hand it is a guide for the visitor to the Museum, and on the other it recomposes the history of the sacred Rock, artistic, technological, political, economic and ideological, enabling us to understand the preconditions that resulted in the creation of the Acropolis monuments... Maria Thermou, To Vima

TAlKiNg MoNuMeNTs

The Parthenon in the service of political propaganda? even though this sounds outrageous, it is not, because the emblematic edifices built by Pericles in Athens were bearers of “messages”. They signified the ideology the great leader wished to project for the city that had just emerged as victor from two major battles, of Marathon and of salamis, and was claiming panhellenic distinction and supremacy… Ninetta Kontrarou-Rassia, eleftherotypia

ARCHAEOLOGY

Αcropolis Visiting its Museum and its Monuments PANOS VALAVANIS

Professor of Classical Archaeology, Athens University

The Acropolis Visiting its Museum and its Monuments, outcome of assiduous research based on the most recent scientific findings, aims to be a friendly and useful travel companion. Its descriptions and interpretative analyses help us to see the monuments in a different way and to understand the historical, artistic and political events that contributed to their creation. Through the texts and the illustrations we get to know the gods and heroes who were worshipped on the Acropolis, the leaders who envisaged the major projects, the artists who brought them to fruition, as well as the innovative ideas they applied and the Athenian citizens who admired and enjoyed these achievements. This little book will help us to explore and engage with the monuments of Athens, not with awe but with the joy that springs from knowledge. 64 pages | 17.3×25.2 cm | 95 illustrations | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-73-2 | English 978-960-6878-74-9 | Spanish 978-960-6878-75-6 | German 978-960-6878-77-0 | Russian 978-960-6878-76-3 | € 9

This book comprises six chapters, which cover a long period from the 15th to the third quarter of the 20th century. The first chapter refers to the condition of the monuments in the time of Ottoman rule and to the European travellers who visited Greece. The remaining chapters deal with the care taken by the Greek State to uncover the monuments and the creation of the archaeological collections and museums. This is the first integrated picture of the subject, presenting the work of those involved with uncovering, rescuing and enhancing the monuments.

Care for the Antiquities in Greece and the first museums

Second Edition

ΑNGELIKI ΚΟΚΚΟu

Archaeologist

...Hidden behind each monument is a curious incident, behind every museum a scholarly debate... Alexandra Rapti, o Kosmos tou ependyti

1100-30 BC DIMITRIS PLANTzOS

Professor of Classical Archaeology, Athens University

it would be a great asset to university teachers in the states and Britain to have this in translation and i can see it being adopted as a required source.

Sir John Boardman Professor Emeritus, Oxford University

Second Edition

ARCHAEOLOGY

Greek Art and Archaeology

Τhis luxuriously illustrated publication surveys Greek archaeology from the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces to the subordination of the last Hellenistic kingdoms to Rome. Its target audience is archaeology and art students, as well anyone interested in Greek art and culture. Through concise, systematic covering of the main categories of classical monuments, the reader is taken to a tour of ancient Greece along the most important period in its history, the 1st millennium BC. Architecture and city planning, sculpture, painting, pottery, metallurgy, jewelry, and numismatics are some of the areas covered. The book caters for the non-specialist looking for the essential in ancient Greece. The text is divided into accessible, userfriendly sections including case studies, terminology, charts, maps, a timeline and full index.

Dispilio

The Mycenaean Pictorial Style

Notes for the Visitor

In the National Archaeological Museum of Athens

GEORGE CH. CHOuRMOuzIADIS

Professor Emeritus of Prehistoric Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

This guide to the prehistoric lakeshore settlement at Dispilio, near Kastoria is no collection of pedantic analyses and descriptions. It is more of a companion, speaking in a low voice to the visitor as he takes a friendly walk around this place, as if together with the distinguished archaeologist who devoted fifteen years to uncovering its secrets. The author tells us the story of its excavation, what it aimed to establish and the unique artefacts brought to light. In doing so, he vividly conveys the frustrations, hopes, and above all the excitement of working on a site where an organised community flourished seven thousand years ago. 48 pages | 15×22.5 cm | 23 illustrations | Paper back | Greek and English 978-960-6878-06-0 | € 15

only someone who knows and loves can initiate the general public into those things he knows. The publication, tasteful and with attention to detail, makes this short guide a precious companion. Periodical Archaiologia

J.A. SAKELLARAKIS

Honorary Ephor of Antiquities

A catalogue raisonné of the Mycenaean pictorial-style pottery in the National Archaeological Museum. The pieces are classified on the basis of the motifs, the date and the painters, to the degree that these are identifiable. Through the presentation of the material an endeavour is made to distinguish workshops and artists, and to ascribe specific works to them. 152 pages | 23×30.5 cm | 662 illustrations and drawings | Paper back | English 13 978-960-7254-00-9 | € 25

ARCHAEOLOGY

Olympia and the Olympic Games

Guide to the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

DIMITRIOS G. PAPAGEORGIOu

JuLIA VOKOTOPOuLOu

Classicist

The first systematic excavations in the sanctuary of Olympia lasted for six years, from 1875 until 1881. A few years later a publishing feat was achieved, the first extensive scientific publication of the excavation, in German, which was completed in 1897. D. Papageorgiou’s book entitled Olympia and the Olympic Games, published in 1890, is the first guidebook in Greek to the antiquities of Olympia. It is remarkable that it was written before the completion of the German publication of the excavation. This is a pioneering work in which the author did not confine himself to describing the monuments, but dealt with the history and the description of the contests, as well as with the organization in antiquity of the Olympic Games, which were to be revived six years later, in 1896. 228 pages | 14×21 cm | 45 illustrations | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-67-1 | € 19

Director of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

Diverse finds from all over Macedonia, which are housed in the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum, as well as those that have now been transferred to the Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai (Vergina), are presented in detail in this guidebook. An informative introduction to the history of Ancient Macedonia provides the necessary framework for interpreting the exhibits. 256 pages | 15×22 cm | 240 illustrations | Paper back | Greek 13 978-960-7254-32-0 | English 13 978-960-7254-33-7 | German 13 978-960-7254-35-1 | Italian 13 978-960-7254-36-8 | French 13 978-960-7254-34-4 | € 19

Magnesia

Macedonian treasures

The Story of a Civilization

A tour through the Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai

GEORGE CH. CHOuRMOuzIADIS

Professor Emeritus of Prehistoric Archaeology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki PANAYIOTA ASIMAKOPOuLOu - ATzAKA

Dr of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki KITSOS A. MAKRIS

Researcher of Greek Folklore

The unbroken history and the civilization of Magnesia, one of the most important regions of Central Greece, is presented in three sections: The Ancient World – Early Christian and Byzantine Times – Post-byzantine and Modern Times. The historical and archaeological evidence is here used as a basis for an examination of the space, the dwellings and settlements, art and religion, trade and economy, customs and daily life. Each section is lavishly illustrated. 280 pages | 25×29 cm | 329 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek | English | € 55

This is an exemplary publication, which not only exhausts its vast subject, but also delights the eyes and is a pleasure just to browse. Bravo!

Costas Stamatiou, Ta Nea

ACADEMY OF ATHENS AWARD

ANGELIKI KOTTARIDI

Archaeologist

The Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai (Vergina) was built especially to protect the monuments in the burial complex of King Philip II and to facilitate the public’s access to their splendid murals, original large-scale paintings of the Classical period. In the form of an ancient tumulus and encasing the monuments, this Museum-Mausoleum is dedicated to the memory of illustrious historical figures familiar to all. The Guide to the Museum of the Royal Tombs takes the visitor step by step on the tour of this particularly spare and austere, yet simultaneously atmospheric exhibition of the treasures from these tombs, as these are displayed in units. Impressive photographs amplify the interesting historical information and the presentation of the exhibits. 128 pages | 17.5×25 cm | 154 illustrations | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-39-8 | English 978-960-6878-40-4 | Russian 978-960-6878-43-5 | € 19

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National Archaeological Museum NIKOLAOS KALTSAS

Director of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens

This guide informs the reader about the collections of the National Archaeological Museum and the wealth and variety of its exhibits, which span the long history of the ancient world. Rather than giving detailed descriptions of the various items on display, it gives general information about all the collections, with an emphasis on the way they are presented in the rooms of the Museum. At the same time, representative works that attest the artistic quality and value of the exhibits are illustrated. Concise texts showcasing each object in its period, written by the keepers-curators of the collections, enhance in the best possible way the wealth of exhibits in the largest museum in Greece.

CHRISTINA AVRONIDAKI Archaeologist / ANASTASIA GADOLOu Archaeologist / GIORGOS KAVVADIAS

Archaeologist / ELENI PAPAzOGLOu-MANIOuDAKI Keeper of the Prehistoric, Egyptian and Oriental Antiquities Collection / ROSA PROSKYNITOPOuLOu Keeper of the Bronze Collection / ELIzABETH STASINOPOuLOu Keeper of the Vases and Minor Arts Collection / EVANGELOS VIVLIODETIS Archaeologist / ELENI zOSI Archaeologist

ARCHAEOLOGY

…And as the years and the ideologies pass, and the gods abandon the mountain tops, and men’s ships are filled with unique wares with which to feed the merchants’ permanently hungry pockets, gold changes too… Giorgos Chourmouziadis

The Gold of the World GEORGE CH. CHOuRMOuzIADIS

Professor Emeritus of Prehistoric Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The book The Gold of the World traces the course followed by man through the world and through the centuries in his quest for gold. It begins with man’s first acquaintance with the precious metal and continues with his search to locate it and the techniques and methods by which he worked it. It is a chronicle that examines man’s relations with gold through myth, art, religion, the economy and everyday life. A wealth of illustrations covers every period of human history, from prehistory to the major ancient civilizations and from the America of Conquistadores to the Europe of the great artists. 384 pages | 24×28 cm | 486 illustrations | Cloth hard cover in a case | Greek 13 978-960-7254-55-9 | English 13 978-960-7254-54-2 | € 75

ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeology The Definitive Guide Consultant editor: PAuL G. BAHN Translated from English: BETTINA TSIGARIDA

This soundly structured book with hundreds of photographs, figures, tables and maps, introduces us to the world of global archaeology. The first part deals with the discipline of archaeology and its techniques, while the second presents an overview of the most important archaeological finds in the world, from the first encampments and the cremations of the dead to the artifacts and the monuments of the great civilizations.

Exclusive distribution rights for the Greek edition: Kapon Editions Exclusive distribution rights for the English edition: Cameron House

Cyprus: Τhe Crossroads of Eastern

Ancient Cypriote Art

Mediterranean (1600-500 BC)

In the National Archaeological Museum of Athens

VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS

Professor of Archaeology

The book is a concise yet comprehensive panorama of two periods of Cypriot archaeology, the Late Bronze Age (c. 16001150 BC) and the Geometric and Archaic periods (c. 1050-500 BC), which are of seminal importance for the development of the ancient civilization of Cyprus. Relations within the Mediterranean are carefully traced and many new archaeological finds and findings from various parts of the Mediterranean are presented. Lavish illustrations document the conclusions and enliven the descriptions. 224 pages | 25×28 cm | 424 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7037-24-4 | € 64

VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS

Professor of Archaeology

The Cypriot Collection of the National Archaeological Museum comprises some 850 artefacts, of which several were donated by various collectors in the late 19th and early 20th century, while others, formerly illegally owned, are the product of recent confiscations. The Collection has a wealth of sculptures, pottery and terracottas, spanning virtually the entire spectrum of Cypriot art and archaeology, from the Early Bronze Age (c. 2500 BC) to Roman times (4th century AD). The chapter on the history of the Collection was contributed by the Director of the National Archaeological Museum, Dr Nikolaos Kaltsas. 152 pages | 20.5×27 cm | 237 illustrations | Paper back | Greek 13 978-960-7037-40-4 | English 13 978-960-7037-41-1 | € 32

Also available in Italian by Electa and in English by the J. Paul Getty Museum.

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Sailing through Time

The Sea of gods, heroes and men

The ship in Greek art

in ancient Greek art

ΕLSI SPATHARI Archaeologist Prologue: VASSOS KARAGEORGHIS

ALIKI SAMARA-KAuFFMANN Dr Archaeologist

Academic expert at the Louvre Museum

Professor of Archaeology

A fascinating record of the Greeks’ relationship with ships, through archaeology and art spanning a cultural spectrum of millennia, from the obsidian routes in the Aegean islands, such as Melos, Nisyros or Antiparos, to the Greek Struggle for Independence and the growth of Greek shipping. We follow the development of ships, as imprinted in ancient vase-painting, in works by eponymous artists or anonymous craftsmen, fashioned in different materials, as well as in the paintings by contemporary Greek painters. The authoritative yet highly readable texts are enlivened by the rich illustrations. 272 pages | 24×28 cm | 361 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7254-14-6 | English 13 978-960-7254-15-3 | € 69

An original approach to the realm of the sea and the figures that embody it in myth, through the iconography of Greek vases. Protagonists are age-old gods, such as Oceanus and the Oceanids or Nereus and the Nereids. Heroes and nymphs, monsters and marine fauna coexist, depicted already from the Archaic period in the sculpted decoration of temples, in monumental sculptures, as well as in miniature images as coin types. The first part of the book presents 42 vases, mainly in the collection of the Louvre. The second part includes specialist studies on the iconography of the sea by distinguished Greek and French archaeologists. 120 pages | 21×22 cm | 100 illustrations | Cloth hard cover Greek and English 978-960-7037-95-4 | Paper back Greek and French 978-960-7037-93-0 | € 39 (cloth hard cover), € 37 (paper back)

The Battle of Marathon was historically the first victory in the establishment of Democracy. Through the pages of this book, published in 2010 on the occasion of 2,500th anniversary of the “mother of all battles”, the historical events are brought to life, enhanced by the lavish illustrations, and their influence on the development of Hellenic civilization is discussed. 128 pages | 24.5×27.5 cm | 147 illustrations | Paper back | Greek and English 978-960-6878-34-3 | € 27

Democracy and the Battle of Marathon SPYROS MERCOuRIS ΕLSI SPATHARI Archaeologist

The Battle of Marathon A historical and topographical approach CHRISTOS D. DIONYSOPOuLOS

Classicist, Historian, Archaeologist

...The Battle of Marathon was fought … in the afternoon. light is shed on dark aspects of the “mother of all battles” by a new study, which like an axonic tomography of the martial confrontation, seeks the truth 2,502 years later… Mary Adamopoulou, Ta Nea

ARCHAEOLOGY

This book presents all the ancient sources and the scientific theories that have been formulated concerning the Battle of Marathon, including the author’s personal view, which is based on the textual testimonies and primarily the narrative of Herodotus. A full bibliography spanning the 17th century to the present, and a wealth of illustrations, including rare old maps, complement this attractive publication.

The Great Islands

Studies of Crete and Cyprus presented to Gerald Cadogan

The Aegean World A Guide to the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum

COLLECTIVE WORK Editors: COLIn F. MaCDOnaLD, ELEnI HaTzaKI sTELIOs anDREOu

COLLECTIVE WORK Edited by: Dr YannIs GaLanaKIs

Gerald Cadogan’s contributions to the archaeology of the East Mediterranean are directly related to the two Great Islands, Crete and Cyprus where he has directed excavations at Myrtos–Pyrgos and Maroni– Vournes respectively. This volume, comprising mostly Cretan and Cypriot studies, is offered by an array of scholars who have been taught or examined by Cadogan or who have collaborated with him in the field or excavation workrooms over the last fifty years. More than thirty short papers reflect Cadogan’s wide range of interests from interpreting excavation data –architecture, stratigraphy, pottery and small finds– to matters of prehistoric chronology, ethnography and gender, technology, environment and osteology, mythology and iconography, religion and death. The collection is a fascinating testament to the continuing achievements of one of the finest archaeologists of the region.

This is the first guidebook to the collection of antiquities of the prehistoric Aegean housed in the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford, which includes over 10,000 objects from the Cyclades, Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece. The most important Aegean collection outside Greece was formed mainly by Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941), best known for his researches in Crete and his excavation of the Palace of Knossos. The text is structured in eight units and complemented by abundant illustrations and essential bibliography.

IN PRESS

Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

ARCHAEOLOGY

A superb book, full of images and colours, which guides the reader to the valuable collections of the prehistoric Aegean in the Ashmolean â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the oldest museum in great Britain.

Linear B, Glossary NICHOLAS A. MASSOuRIDIS

Transcribing the “Linear B” and “Linear A” signs

Linear B, A new outlook NICHOLAS A. MASSOuRIDIS

PANDELIS N. MASSOuRIDIS AADipl(hons)

Linear B, a New Outlook, by Nicholas A. Massouridis, is the product of thirty years’ study of the phonetic values of the signs of the Linear B script. Proof that Massouridis’s method is correct was provided by the fact that the values have been applied for ten years by his son, Pandelis Massouridis, who has worked on the texts of tablets from Pylos, Knossos and Mycenae, and have also been applied for the first time to the reading of dedications and Linear A tablets from Ayia Triada. Readers will be enchanted by the wonderful world and descriptive wealth of the composite words of the Greek language found in the tablets, as this language evolved towards the Homeric dialect. 190 pages | 17×24 cm | 5 tables | Paper back | English 13 978-960-7037-69-5

248 pages | 17×24 cm | 23 illustrations, 13 tables | Paper back | English 13 978-960-7037-68-8

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Margiana and Protozoroastrism

Necropolis of Gonur

VICTOR SARIANIDI

Archaeologist Honorary Member of the Russian Scientific Academy

An unknown civilization of the 2nd millennium BC, whose religion, known as “Iranian paganism”, was the basis for Zoroastrism, was discovered some three decades ago by V. Sarianidi in the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, the ancient kingdom of Margiana. The results of the excavations, presented in this book, reveal a unique culture of Central Asia, in communication with the peoples of the Near East and the Aegean world.

Some 3,000 graves dating from the end of the 3rd to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC have been uncovered in the necropolis of Gonur, the most important city in the kingdom of Margiana (Turkmenistan). It is suspected that the tribes that migrated to Margiana originated from the lands now lying in modern Kurdistan and the neighbouring regions to the east. The results of the excavations and the anthropological observations based on the skeletons and the numerous finds are presented in this superbly illustrated book.

ACADEMY OF ATHENS AWARD

Mosaics of Thessaloniki 4th-14th century ΕFTYCHIA KOuRKOuTIDOu-NIKOLAIDOu

Ephor Emerita of Antiquities CHRYSANTHI MAVROPOuLOu-TSIOuMI

Masterpieces of historical and artistic value, the mural mosaics of Thessaloniki, the most resplendent and impressive art form of the Early Christian and Byzantine period, had not received the attention they deserve. Completion of the conservation works on the Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki damaged by the 1978 earthquakes, which was conducted by the authors of the volume and their collaborators, enabled the full and detailed photographing of the mosaics, which proceeded in parallel with the writing of the texts. The mosaic decoration of the Rotunda, Hosios David, Hagia Sophia, the Holy Apostles and the basilicas of St Demetrios and the Acheiropoietos is presented through authoritative texts and lavish illustrations, which enhance the aesthetic value of the monuments.

Professor Emerita at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki CHARALAMBOS BAKIRTzIS

Ephor Emeritus of Antiquities

A book that has come to fill a void in the international bibliography. For the first time colour photographs of the mosaics of the Rotunda, after their conservation, and of the other monuments are presented in one volume. An invaluable tool for researchers and connoisseurs of Byzantine art. Yannis Ch. Papa oannou

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The church of Christ the Saviour

Icons from the Thracian coast of the Black Sea in Bulgaria

ΕFTYCHIA KOuRKOuTIDOu-NIKOLAIDOu

Scientific editor: ANASTASIA TOuRTA

Ephor Emerita of Antiquities

The monograph places particular emphasis on the iconographic and stylistic analysis of the wall-paintings in the church of Christ the Saviour in Thessaloniki, which were photographed immediately after their cleaning, especially for this publication. The great wealth of murals in this small church is dated to the decade 1340-1350, and attests to the avant-garde art of Thessaloniki, the second most important city in the Byzantine Empire. The author, who was responsible for the conservation and restoration project, links the monument with other highly significant monuments of the period, which reveal the ecumenical appeal of Byzantine art. 120 pages | 21×24 cm | 150 illustrations | Paper back | Greek and English 978-960-7037-89-3 | € 32

A small church with big history, which was saved after many years of effort for its restoration.

Honorary Director of the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki

Fifty-two Byzantine and Post-Byzantine icons mainly from Mesembria, but also Varna, Sozopolis, Vasiliko and Agathoupolis, on the Bulgarian coasts of the Black Sea, as well as from the mountain village of Brashlyan in the Haemus Minor, reveal aspects of the societies of their provenance. These are very ancient cities that were founded by Ionian colonists in the 8th and 7th centuries BC, and which acquired great strategic importance for the protection and defence of Constantinople from attacks by peoples of the North.

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The Holy Land

Hagia Sophia

Illuminated proskynetaria of the 17th-18th century

The great church of Thessaloniki

SOT. N. KADAS

Professor of Byzantine Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The illuminated proskynetaria were compiled between 1634 and 1748 and are pious guides to the Christian –mainly– monuments of Palestine. They combine religious lore and historical data, offering valuable information on the geography, topography, history and archaeology of the region. Particularly important are the illustrations. These are small-format calligraphic manuscript codices, each containing from 50 to 100 miniatures.

The present publication fills a gap in the greek bibliography. it is also a useful tool for studying Post-Byzantine painting.

CHRYSANTHI MAVROPOuLOu-TSIOuMI

Professor Emerita at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The thirteen-centuries-old church of Hagia Sophia, dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God, has been the focus of scholarly interest and debate since the nineteenth century, generating a remarkably rich bibliography – Greek and foreign. However, until now there was no publication addressed to the visitors to this monument. This book comes to fill the void, examining all aspects of the subject – the history of the church, its decoration and the views expressed on this at various times.

Short Guide to the Museum of Byzantine Culture

Wandering in Byzantine Thessaloniki

ΕFTYCHIA KOuRKOuTIDOu-NIKOLAIDOu

Honorary Director of the Museum of Byzantine Culture

ANASTASIA TOuRTA

Director of the Museum of Byzantine Culture

In Thessaloniki’s Museum of Byzantine Culture the exhibits are not treated as works of art with an intrinsic aesthetic value but are selected and enhanced in such a way as to give an insight into the historical, social, artistic and spiritual-intellectual environment in which they were created, thus transforming information into knowledge, that is a social good. For this reason, in 2005 the foundation was awarded the "Museum Prize" of the Council of Europe.

Thessaloniki, second most important city to Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire, enjoyed periods of economic prosperity and spiritual and artistic zenith, in which monuments of great significance for the development of Byzantine civilization were created. This book reveals to visitors Thessaloniki’s Byzantine face, through traces left by 2,300 years of history. The texts and the lavish illustrations eloquently narrate the Byzantine city’s history.

A useful guide for the visitor wishing to have a concise overview of the permanent exhibition in the Museum.

There where the traces of the Byzantine past engage in charming conversation with the present... Εftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou

ARCHAEOLOGY

Festschrift for Academician Panagiotis L. Vocotopoulos COLLECTIVE WORK

Academician Panagiotis L. Vocotopoulos has devoted his life to the study and enhancement of Byzantine Civilization. Linked with the foremost academic foundations in Greece (Universities of Thessaloniki and Athens, Academy of Athens, Archaeological Society, et al.), he has distinguished himself as a paramount intellectual figure both in Greece and abroad. The Festschrift for Academician Panagiotis L. Vocotopoulos includes 65 original studies by eminent Greek and foreign scholars, on issues relating to the art of the Byzantine and the Post-Byzantine period (architecture,

sculpture, painting, minor arts, manuscripts and epigraphy). Addressed to the Greek and the international public, this publication, in two elegant and typographically impeccable volumes, is an important contribution to the study of Byzantine art and the cultural achievements in Greece and the Balkans generally during Byzantine and Post-Byzantine times.

324 pages vol. Α, 464 pages vol. Β | 24.5×31.8 cm | 800 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | multiple 978-960-6878-80-0 (A vol.), 978-960-6878-81-7 (B vol.), 978-960-6878-79-4 (SET)

The Sistine Chapel

A new interpretative approach after the restoration of the frescoes HEINRICH W. PFEIFFER, S.J.

Professor of the History of Christian Art Translation from German: PANAYOTA SIETI Prologue: MARINA LAbRAkI PLAkA Director of the Greek National Gallery

Has already been translated into 8 languages since its original publication in 2007. It is available in Italian (Jaca Book), German (Belser Verlag), French (Hazan/Hachette), Polish (Bialy Kruk), Spanish (Lunwerg Editores), Russian (Northern Pilgrim), English (Abbeville Press Publishers), and Greek (Kapon Editions).

...Professor Heinrich Pfeiffer’s monumental study is accompanied by phantasmagoric new images of the Sistine Chapel… ...the naked youths with handsome sculpted bodies were not modelled in chiaroscuro, as we thought, but in pure colour...

Marina Lambraki-Plaka Director of the National Gallery

ART

The Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina) is not just the most famous chapel in the Vatican, thanks to the masterpieces by Michelangelo and other great artists, it is also a focal point in Christian iconography, a field of reference for researchers in Theology. The works to conserve and restore the frescoes, which began several decades ago, have enhanced the quality and vibrancy of the colours, as well as revealing new evidence for the interpretation of the iconography.

Greece Through the Lens of Takis Tloupas ANTONIS kARkAYANNIS

Journalist GEORGE CH. CHOURMOUZIADIS

Professor Emeritus of Prehistoric Archaeology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Prologues: ANGELOS DELIVORRIAS

Professor, Director of the Benaki Museum LENA GOURGIOTIS

Director of the Laographical and Historical Museum of Larissa

Breath-taking Thessalian landscapes and ordinary people in moments of leisure or toil, dominate the Greece, Through the Lens of Takis Tloupas. A Greece in which the rivers, the towering trees and all manner of buildings have soul. A photographic document that captures fleeting moments and the resilience of the patrimonial heritage, a book to be browsed through again and again. 400 pages | 24.5×31.5 cm | 500 duo tone illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7037-64-0 | English 13 978-960-7037-67-1 | € 101

ART

…The “Greece of Takis Tloupas” is a high achievement: it hands over to those who are interested what is able to stay of those things that are leaving. A book of very profound content, distillate of love, sensitivity and care. Yannis Ch. Papa oannou

Takis Tloupas, an artist-photographer best known for his work in Thessaly, visited Mount Athos in 1969. On his journey he captured the everyday life and faces of the monks, as well as the holy buildings. Tloupas’s Itinerary contains 115 photographs which, quite apart from their artistic value, offer historical testimony to the life of Mount Athos and are of great value to both the scholar and the general public. 160 pages | 24×27.5 | 115 duo tone illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek and English 13 978-960-7254-94-8 | € 45

A Photographic Itinerary on Mount Athos, 1969 TAkIS TLOUPAS Photographer

Prologues: k. bALAFAS, G.N. PENTZIkIS

…On Mount Athos, Takis Tloupas worked with the zest of the artist and the piety of the pilgrim. He recorded photographically the architecture of the monasteries, this masterpiece of craft and faith. Concurrently, he penetrated kindly into the depths of the monk’s soul… Costas Balafas, Photographer

ART

Stone Reliefs

George Kastriotis

And Stonemasons from West Thessaly 19th-Early 20th century

The Sculptor

LENA GOURGIOTIS

Prologue: PAOLO MORENO Professor of History and Archaeology, University III, Rome

Director of the Laographical and Historical Museum of Larissa

TAkIS TLOUPAS Photographer

The book is devoted to the popular stonecarving, mainly of an ecclesiastical nature, of West Thessaly in the 19th and early 20th century, or late Turkish period. Self-taught popular craftsmen, organised in groups that travelled widely in Greece to build churches and other structures, carved stone doorframes and slabs built into the masonry in low relief, with subjects drawn from Christian worship, and magic and apotropaic symbols. 160 pages | 17.5×20 cm | 141 duo tone illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7037-04-6 | € 19

MARY G. kASTRIOTOU

In the rich oeuvre of Georgios Kastriotis (1899-1969), which is animated by the spirit of ancient Greek art, the female figure dominates in diverse images. Part I of this beautiful book narrates the life of the artist, a student of Bourdelle. In Part II his work is analysed and interpreted by the distinguished Italian archaeologist and historian Paolo Moreno. 160 pages | 24×31 cm | 154 duo tone illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek and English 13 978-960-7037-17-6 | € 37

The Itinerary of a Collector

With warp and weft

The Vasilis Korkolopoulos Collection

Textiles and Costumes from Metsovo

Preface: ΑNASTASIS PAPALIGOURAS Former Minister of Shipping Prologue: ANGELOS DELIVORRIAS Professor, Director of the Benaki Museum Texts: GIANNOULA kAPLANI Archaeologist - Social anthropologist, Former Director of the Museum of Greek Folk Art

Prologue: IOANNA PAPANTONIOU Set designer - Costumier President of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation

MARIA LADA-MINOTOU Former Curator of the National

Historical Museum DIONYSIS-ANGELOS MINOTOS Former Director of the

National Historical Museum SOFIA CHANDAkA Social anthropologist

Vasilis Korkolopoulos’s first collection was of cigarette paper packets. At the age of fourteen he bought a corner roof tile for two drachmas. As a student he got to know Modern Greek coins. On his first travels abroad he was captivated by handmade carpets. Then he began purchasing paintings, and antiquities too. In the ensuing years his interest turned to objects of Greek folk culture. 304 pages | 24×28 cm | 300 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 978-960-7037-98-5 | € 69

Introductory text: ΕLENA AVEROFF Former President of the World Handicraft Council Texts: CATHERINE VAN STEEN, ELENI LYkIARDOPOULOS

This book, dedicated to the anonymous female weaver, creator of life, family, values and traditions, discusses the hidden secrets of Metsovan textiles and their role in the daily life of this Epirot town. Presented too are representative samples of textiles and costumes from the Collection of the Folklore Museum of the Baron M. Tositsas Foundation. 168 pages | 24.5×27.5 cm | 270 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7037-77-0 | English 13 978-960-7037-78-7 | € 55

...we see the women in their costumes weaving, spinning, dyeing, washing, spreading the finished textile in the sun... Eleni Bistika, Kathimerini

ART

The Greek Chest

Tools of tradition

VIRGINIA MATSELI

The Collection of Pavlos Condellis

Ethnologist ARIS TSARAVOPOULOS

Archaeologist Preface: ANGELOS DELIVORRIAS Professor Director of the Benaki Museum Prologue: IOANNA PAPANTONIOU Set designer - Costumier President of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation

Chests of all periods and styles were located in houses, museums, private collections, archives and libraries in the course of this long-term research which began in 1980 from Crete and over the years extended to all corners of Greece. In no time at all, Virginia Matseli and Aris Tsaravopoulos were convinced that the chest is far more than an object of folk culture: it is an archive of life. 296 pages | 24.5×27.5 cm | 508 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 978-960-6878-12-1 | English 978-960-6878-37-4 | € 64

MIMIkA GIANNOPOULOU

Archaeologist

This book is the result of the love of Pavlos Condellis for Farming life and his professional interest in agricultural machinery. He was able to collect tools used for farm work, for different crops, from many regions of Greece. The use of these tools is illustrated through four categories: the working of the land, tools used in the home, those showing domestic activities, and those of long forgotten professions. Concise explanations are accompanied by many beautiful photographs, while the black and white pictures of Takis Tloupas show scenes of farming life when these tools were in use and thus make the collection come to life. 180 pages | 24.5×27.5 cm | 296 illustrations | Hard cover | Greek and English 978-960-6878-72-5 | € 50

Artemis Alkalai home: a wandering

Protagonists in Alkalai’s photographic oeuvre are the “homes” that abandon their hearth, the interior of the artist’s studio, to become vagabonds who rove in the urban web, telling a tale woven around places (cemeteries, churches, ruins) and persons (immigrants, drug addicts, children) they encounter in their wanderings. She puts these houses in a continual transition from the urban centre to the natural landscape, from the calm of the countryside and the sea to the hustle and bustle of the Athenian streets. The house thus becomes a metaphor for the relationship between the object-artwork and the space surrounding it. 96 pages | 22×24 cm | 140 illustrations | Paper back | Greek and English 978-960-6878-62-6 | € 24

ARTEMIS ALkALAI

Artist

...For Artemis the house is a restless canvas on which identity meets history and afterwards it dares to proceed dangerously into the unknown... Laura Dodson, Artist

Α silver book THALEIA-MARIA GEORGOULIS Artist Texts: ΗUNDAL MONIkA

This album of recent work by the talented Greek silversmith Thaleia-Maria Georgoulis marks her contribution to the COLLECT exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Τhe small objects for daily use she has created are the expressions of an art that is abstract and minimalist to the point of asceticism. Using in most cases no other means than cracks, breaks and gashes she gives apparently simple objects new dimensions and significance, shaping small poems in silver in homage to the beauty that we fail to notice in our everyday existence. 60 pages | 29.5×19 cm | 50 illustrations | Paper back | Greek and English 978-960-7037-90-9 | € 32

History of Art since 1945 in five chapters ΜELITA EMMANOUIL

Professor of Art History, School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens

ART

Postwar art in Europe and the United States, through a truly contemporary study that includes the new avant-garde movements – from Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art to Fluxus, Arte Povera, Body Art and even Feminist Art. In addition to the big names of the foreign art scene, such as Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Frieda Kahlo, and others, Greek artists whose work belongs in a wider international frame, such as Gerasimos Sklavos, Nikos Kessanlis, Alexis Akrithakis, Alekos Fasianos, and others are presented.

A stage for Dionysos

Watermark

Theatrical Space & Ancient Drama

GISÈ LE APHRODITI LUbSEN

Photographer - Art Historian

Fifty underwater photographs on the theme of woman, inspired by the most important female figures in the ancient Greek pantheon. Photographs that propose a new mode of approach, with emphasis on the factor of femininity.

COLLECTIVE WORk: F. AMOROSO, R. bEACHAM, J. DIMAkOPOULOS, L. EFREMOGLOU, V. kARAGEORGHIS, P. MAVROMOUSTAkOS, S. MERCOURIS, J. MONLEON, k. bOLETIS, M. PITENIS, A. PORTELANOS, C. PROTOCHRISTOVA, TH. SkALTSAS, E. TZEkAkIS

In this collective work scholars from different disciplines discuss the staging of ancient drama in Greece and abroad, as well as the architecture, restoration and use of ancient theatres, in which ancient Greek drama now finds its true “space”. 216 pages | 22×29 cm | 163 illustrations | Paper back | Greek and English 978-960-6878-20-6 | € 37

…Her portraits are at once surreal and ambivalent, in ancient vein and modernist, serene and worrying. They express her lively interest in time and memory, as well as her passion for Greece and its history… Joseph Brodsky, Poet

Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides embody our conception of Greek theatrical tradition, just as Shakespeare “represents” British theatre... Margaret Benton Director of the Theatre Museum of London

ART - THEATRE

Panorama of Greek Actors

Scala Greek Μyths and Αncient Drama

and memorable performances of the 20th century

COLLECTIVE WORk: S. MERCOURIS, V. CRESPI MORbIO, N. bAkOUNAkIS, H. MATHEOPOULOS, A. PAPASTAVROU

COLLECTIVE WORk: kOSTAS GEORGOUSOPOULOS, ELENI D. GOULI, kOSTAS POLITOPOULOS, SPYROS MERCOURIS

A collective work on the contribution of the Greek theatre to society, education and everyday life, from the late 19th to the late 20th century, as well as on the correspondence between theatrical performances and national, political and social events in the 20th century.

The relation between tragedy and opera is as old as opera itself. Opera was born out of experiments by Italian scholars of the Renaissance relating to the nature of ancient tragedy and ways in which it could be performed. And many works in the operatic repertoire derive their subject matter from ancient legends. This relationship is described briefly, though with full documentation, in this little volume.

ARCHITECTURE

Dimitris Manikas

I. Vikelas

Architecture 1968-2012

Texts: ANDREAS GIAkUMAkATOS Professor in Architecture, Athens School of Fine Arts

Editor: ΑNDREAS GIACUMACATOS Professor in Architecture, Athens School of Fine Arts

This volume presents architectural projects by Dimitris Manikas, in Greece and in Vienna, where he lives and works. His approach takes into consideration the historicity of the space and the particularities of the urban landscape. Manikas has participated in some of the most important competitions of recent years for the Greek capital (Athens Cultural Centre, Acropolis Museum, Elliniko Metropolitan Park) and was awarded first prize for his design for the layout of Syntagma Square.

PANOS DRAGONAS

Architect, Associate Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, University of Patras Prologue: AGGELOS DELIVORRIAS Professor, Director of the Benaki Museum

The volume presents representative works from the architect’s long career, which have set their seal on contemporary Athens. Through its pages the reader can appreciate the effect of time and the changes it brings to architectural creation. The synoptic description and the plans of each project are complemented by excellent photographs.

…Discreet simplicity and clarity of thought distinguish Dimitris Manikas’s works. The maximum result with the maximum simplicity…

The Plaza complex, the Athens Tower, the President Hotel, the Atrina Tower, the Museum of Cycladic Art ... are just some of Vikelas’s projects.

Roland Rainer, Architect

Urban development of Athens

From Prehistoric Times to the Beginning of the 19th Century J. TRAVLOS

Architect - Archaeologist

The Byzantine monuments in Modern Greece

Ideology and practice of the restorations, 1833-1939 Dr ELENI-ANNA CHLEPA

The book Urban development of Athens,

Restoration Architect

first published in 1960, is a classic

The book negotiates the issue of the approach to and treatment of the Byzantine monuments in the first hundred years of the Greek State. It examines representative restoration interventions on Byzantine monuments in Greece and analyses critically the theoretical principles and the practices adopted. Concurrently, it investigates the ideological and cultural context of the Byzantine heritage, as well as the ways in which it was perceived by later European thought. The study is based on a wealth of archival material that is published for the first time and constitutes an essential contribution both to research on the Greek cultural heritage and to European restorations.

handbook for studying Athenian topography from antiquity into modern times. Its twelve chapters, richly illustrated with photographs and numerous architectural and topographical plans and drawings, present the urban-planning development, architecture and monuments of the city. 308 pages | 22×29 cm | 189 illustrations and drawings, 12 tables | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7254-01-6 | € 48

Third Edition

Irreplaceable aid for those studying Athens, but also for those interested in getting to know the city’s topography.

ARCHITECTURE

The adventure of a bridge

Great Escapes

Linking Rhion – Antirrhion

New Designs for Home Theaters by Theo Kalomirakis

Texts: LEANDROS SLAVIS, ELSI SPATHARI

The linking of Rhion and Antirrhion was an adventure lasting many years, from the vision of Greek Prime Minister Charilaos Trikoupis to the construction of the magnificent bridge spanning the two shores. Easily readable texts, accompanied by rich photographic documentation, describe step by step this remarkable project, from the initial idea of the road connection until the moment the first vehicle crossed the bridge. 224 pages | 24.5×31.5 cm | 300 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7037-75-6 | € 59

Texts: STEVEN CASTLE Photography: PHILIP ENNIS, GEORGE FAFALIS Introduction: STAMATIS FASOULIS Prologue: NIkOLAOS VERNIkOS, DEAN kOONTZ

Private cinemas designed by Theo Kalomirakis are presented with colour photographs and descriptions of the stateof-the-art technology that is a necessary precondition for this entertainment space. Cinemas that take us back to 19th-century England or which remind us of the glamour of old Hollywood. Cinemas housing works of art or which are themselves works of art. 204 pages | 25×28 cm | 139 illustrations, 44 drawings | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7037-44-2 | English 13 978-960-7037-45-9 | € 64

...In the end, in man’s confrontation with nature the first is victor. He succeeded in taming what it had created a million years ago... Μaria Thermou, To Vima

…Thodoros Kalomoirakis speaks to “E” about the stuff that dreams are made of, in cinema or not… Giannis Triantaphyllou, Eleftherotypia

...The Athenian Walk is welcome because it inspires “new manners of behaviour and experience of urban space”, and “generates hopes of a humanization of the cities mores”. Νinetta Kontrarou-Rassia, Eleftherotypia

The Athenian Walk And the Historic Site of Athens ALEXANDROS PAPAGEORGIOU-VENETAS

Architect and Historian of Urban Design Professor in the University of Leuven in Belgium

More than one hundred and seventy years elapsed between the visits by 19th- and 20th-century travellers to the Acropolis and the recent creation of the Athenian Peripatos, an urban-planning dream that was born together with new Athens in 1833. The efforts over many decades to lay out the accesses to the Acropolis are presented in this album, documented by many plans, drawings and photographs. 216 pages | 24.5×31 cm | 215 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 978-960-6878-22-0 | English 978-960-6878-21-3 | € 69

Second Edition

...The album, written in an eloquent and eminently readable style, enriched with rare drawings and photographs, reminds us that as in life in art too “the road is the goal”... Εvi Giannimelou, Gaiorama

ARCHITECTURE - ENVIRONMENT

Athens

Pindos - Grevena

A Vision of Classicism

Landscapes and Villages

ALEXANDROS PAPAGEORGIOU-VENETAS

TRIANTAPHYLLOS ADAMAkOPOULOS Civil Engineer PENELOPE MATSOUkA Biologist

Architect and Historian of Urban Design Professor in the University of Leuven in Belgium Prologue: Dr ADRIAN VON bUTTLAR Professor of Art History, University of Kiev

Athens – A vision of classicism is a methodical presentation of the critical first decade (1833-1843) of modern Athens and particularly the urban-planning proposals for the new city. The authoritative texts and analytical discussions are amplified by photographs, drawings and plans. In the first part of the study each plan-proposal is examined individually. In the second part texts documenting the founding of the new city are published and in the appendix material from hitherto unknown sources.

A tour through all the villages of the prefecture, with emphasis on signs of human activity –buildings, fields, old roads and bridges– as well as on manifestations and immaterial indications of the life of each place, in trades, migrations, habits and place names. An album with lovely images and an informative text. 176 pages | 25×28 cm | 196 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7037-06-0 | € 38

...and yet, that is where the heart of Greece has always beaten, in the mountains and rivers and the rural life. In one of the most authentic regions of our country, the Prefecture of Grevena... Evi Giannimelou, Gaiorama

The fairytale world of mushrooms

White paradise

GEORGE kONSTANTINIDIS

FRANCIS LATREILLE Reporter - Explorer Texts: FRANCIS LATREILLE, CATHERINE GUIGON Prologue: CLAUDE LORIUS Translation from French: kOSTAS M. STAMATOPOULOS

Educationalist - Researcher

This impressive album inducts us into the fascinating microcosm of mushrooms. All the “families” with their strange Latin names are presented in superb photographs and with explanatory texts. 240 pages | 23.5×30 cm | 263 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7037-26-8 | € 55

...Very useful are the details given on gathering mushrooms, as well as the references to their role in nature, toxicology and their history. This is an excellent work, fruit of years of study, in an attractive and well-produced publication… Georgia Zavitsanou, Kathimerini

Journeys to the North Pole

Whereas only researchers and tourists travel to Antarctica, native populations have been surviving in the Arctic for thousands of years. Reindeer and caribou, seals and whales, bears and dogs that draw the sleighs, participants in the life and habits of humans, have made the nomadic hunters' existence possible in an inhospitable world. Today these cultures are under pressure from the economies of the "developed" countries. The ice extent is retreating, Greenland’s glaciers are cracking and the mythical polar region, threatened by climate change and the greenhouse effect, is slowly but surely being destroyed. 232 pages | 30.5×26 cm | 236 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7037-83-1 | English 13 978-960-7037-82-4 | € 64

ENVIRONMENT

...Single-cell organisms, hairs, scales, pollen grains, seeds, leaves, suckers, the remarkable disguises of which no one can suspect... Giota Sykka, Kathimerini

Nano Nature Nature’s Spectacular Hidden World RICHARD JONES Entomologist

Translation from English: PANAYOTA SIETI

Unknown facets of the complexity and beauty of the world of nature, through images that can only be seen through the electronic scanning microscope, which magnifies an object as much as 200,000 times, creating crystal-clear images of infinitesimally small organisms, invisible to the naked eye. The Images in Nano Nature, far more bizarre than surrealist art, are brought out of the high-tech science laboratory into the public arena, revealing a wealth of astonishing patterns and incredible structures.

SCIENCE

Encyclopaedia of Auto-Immune diseases CHARALAMbOS M. MOUTSOPOULOS

Professor in the Medical School of Athens University Prologue: NIkOLAOS MATSANIOTIS Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics Secretary General of the Academy of Athens

Auto-immune diseases affect 5 to 8% of the population, with a higher frequency in women. To date, the international community has recorded over 80 autoimmune diseases. Their appearance is due to the fact that the patient’s immune (defensive) system, instead of combating foreign invaders of the body, combats one or more of its organs, so causing the autoimmune disease.

Third Supplemented Edition

Psychoanalysis and Ideologies COLLECTIVE WORk

Editor: kOSTAS bAZARIDIS

The interaction of contemporary Philosophy, Sociology and Theology with Psychoanalysis, mainly at the level of the effective widening of the Critique of Ideologies, is the object of international debate. This volume hosts papers by 35 distinguished Greek and foreign psychoanalysts, delivered at the 7th Delphi International Psychoanalytic Symposium, held in 2008, subject of which was “Psychoanalysis and Ideologies”. Particularly interesting is the discussion on the conscious or subconscious intention of ideological distortions, as these can be formulated in heteroclite theoretical standpoints. Presented too are the tools that continue to be differentiated through the psychoanalytic act, so as to make their enhancement possible. 400 pages | 17×22 cm | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-65-7 | € 29.50

An invaluable handbook for doctors, patients and their families, nurses and for all those who wish to learn how to combat auto-immune diseases.

HISTORY

The Smyrna Quay

The life of the Vlachs in 1900

Tracing a symbol of progress and splendour

ASTERIOS I. kOUkOUDIS

GEORGE POULIMENOS Computer Analyst/Programmer ACHILLEAS CHATZICONSTANTINOU Geologist/Geographer

An original presentation of the famous Smyrna waterfront, viewed from a historical, architectural and socioeconomic perspective. From the completion of the project in August 1875 to the burning of Smyrna in September 1922, the sea front, also known as "Ké" (from the French word Quai), with its luxurious mansions, theatres and cafés, hotels and consulates, and, of course, the harbour, became the icon of the cosmopolitan city and the symbol of an entire era. The authors, after years of indepth research of historical sources such as eye-witness accounts, hundreds of postcards, maps, annual commercial guides, etc., attempt with the use of modern technology a complete tracing and documentation of the Smyrna Quay, thus illuminating unknown aspects of its history.

IN PRESS

Educationalist

An album of rare photographs documenting and presenting the multiple dimensions of the mosaic of Vlach populations living in both Greece and Ottoman lands in the Balkans in 1900. Contrary to stereotype views, the broad spectrum and articulation of their cultural, social and economic life is projected. 64 pages | 23.5×29.5 cm | 226 illustrations, 12 maps | Paper back | Greek 978-960-7037-91-6 | English 978-960-7037-92-3 | € 30 The book was published in collaboration with the Egnatia Epirus Foundation.

An important contribution to the ethnographic bibliography and to understanding the Vlach element as a constituent of Greek national identity.

The chronicle of Tatoi Vol. A: 1800-1916 Vol. B: 1917-2003 kOSTAS M. STAMATOPOULOS

Historian - Writer Prologue: kONSTANTINOS k. MITSOTAkIS

Today the property of the Greek State, the former royal estate at Tatoi is associated with historical events and persons who played a leading role in the life of Greece. Readers are inducted into the history of four or five generations of people –from labourers and peasants to members of the royal family– whom the author approaches through unknown private papers, as well as their personal recollections. At the same time, they follow the course of Greek political, social and diplomatic history for almost a century (1871-1973). 464 pages vol. Α, 324 pages vol. Β | 23.5×30 cm | 367 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 13 978-960-7037-62-6 (A vol.), 13 978-960-7037-63-3 (B vol.), 13 978-960-7037-61-9 (SET) | € 160

The reader is guided to the extensive woodland, the archaeological site, the everyday life of the palace, and at the same time the great History of the country until the referendum of 1974. The royal family’s legal and judicial battles with the Greek State, the affair of the containers and the receiving of the estate by the Greek authorities in 2003. Dimitra Roumboula, Ethnos

HISTORY

Tatoi Tour in time and space kOSTAS M. STAMATOPOULOS

Historian - Writer

Most visitors to the former royal estate at Tatoi know nothing about the identity of the buildings or about its very interesting history. The first part of this book covers the period from the establishment of the estate until 2011. The second part guides the visitor to the buildings of its historical nucleus. The work is illustrated with maps, drawings, plans, photographs and architectural diagrams.

The circulation of this book, which in any case enriches the bibliography on the historical identity of Athens, of Attica, and also of the Greek dynasty and political life, coincides with an ever strengthening conviction in public opinion that Tatoi should be enhanced in a manner worthy of it... Νikos Vatopoulos, Kathimerini

The known and the unknown Charilaos Trikoupis

Charilaos Trikoupis and public works

LYDIA TRICHA

Lawyer - Historian of Modern Greek History

A portrait of the public and private life of Charilaos Trikoupis. Details about his character, his daily habits, even his love affairs, make up the unknown human side of the great statesman who dominated the Greek political stage for twenty years, aspiring to reorganize the state and to modernize the country.

A thorough presentation of the domestic and foreign policy of Charilaos Trikoupis, with emphasis on the dimension of development. The opening of the Corinth Canal, the draining of Lake Kopais and the construction of the road and railway network are just some of the public works on which the great politician set his seal. Much water was to pass under the bridge, until his vision of the Rhion – Antirrhion Bridge became reality…

Ilias Manglinis, Kathimerini

Charilaos Trikoupis A biographical journey LYDIA TRICHA

Lawyer - Historian of Modern Greek History

How well do we known Charilaos Trikoupis? Many unknown facts about the great statesman who left his mark on the history of Modern Greece are brought to light in this illustrated biography, which presents not only his career but also his family and political milieu. The book includes paintings, woodcuts, newspaper cuttings, maps and cartoons, as well as numerous documents from the Trikoupis Archive, most of them published here for the first time. 300 pages | 23.5Ă&#x2014;28 cm | 600 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek 978-960-6878-09-1 | â&#x201A;Ź 74

HISTORY

...This album, an aesthetically perfect publication produced with care, has much juice and essence, additionally it is particularly attractive as it combines superbly information with image. Specifically, the rare and outstanding photographs constitute a reconstruction of the period in which Trikoupis lived and was active...

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Macedonia - Thessaloniki 1870-1940

Images of the Jewish Community Salonika 1897-1917

YANNIS MEGAS, DIMITRIS TAkAS Prologue: Prof. EVANGELOS VENIZELOS

This elegant publication presents 84 stocks of anonymous companies, testimonies of the economic life of Thessaloniki and Macedonia in a critical historical period spanning the final years of Ottoman rule to the German Occupation. Specifically, illustrated are 78 shares and corporate bonds, one state bond, three cooperative shares, one note of liability and one lottery loan. The accompanying text provides information taken mainly from the statutes of the companies.

YANNIS MEGAS Prologue: VASSILIS VASSILIkOS

Over 200 postcards of the period 18971917, organized in eight thematic units, bring back to life the old Jewish community of Thessaloniki. A wonderful, nostalgic album, a unique photographic document that offers precious information on the social life of the city, as well as on the political and military events of the time.

Each share and each bond is not merely a piece of paper but a document of the aesthetics of its time. It was consciously designed so that its appearance is attractive, conveying the dynamism and the character of the issuing company.

...A book that has the form of an album, the delicacy of a piece of jewellery, the stuff of a work of art...

Ε.Α. Hekimoglou, Macedonia

Aphrodite Karimali, Ethnos

HISTORY

The Selanik of the Turks, the Byzantine co-queen of cities, the second Jerusalem of the Jews, the joint capital of the Greek State. Thessaloniki of the collective myths and the omnipotent clich s: mother to the poor, cosmopolitan grande dame, capital of the Balkans, amorous city... Sophia Nikolaidou, Ta Nea

Thessaloniki 1912-2012 The future of the past Text: LEON A. NAR Photographs: YIORGIS YEROLYMbOS

An anniversary album published to celebrate the centenary of Thessaloniki’s annexation to the Greek State. Marvellous photographs capture what has remained of the city’s cosmopolitan character or enhance aspects of the modern western megalopolis, while the accompanying texts invite the reader to enjoy the city from a new visual angle.

The text and the photographs attempt an alluring and often unexpected synthesis of aspects of the history of Thessaloniki, its public image and its culture in the past century... Chryssa Nanou, Angeliophoros tis Kyriakis

Wiera Gran

Midnight

The accused

DAN FRANk

Author

AGATA TUSZYNSkA

Journalist - Author Translation from French: THOMAS SkASSIS

Translation from French: ANASTASIA kARASTATHI, PHOTIS SIATITSAS

He, Wladyslaw Szpilman, was a pianoplayer, and she, Wiera Gran, a singer, in a café in the Warsaw ghetto… He was admired for his courage and feistiness, she was traduced mercilessly. The beautiful singer was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, tried and acquitted on grounds of reasonable doubt. At the end of her life she watched the posthumous triumph of the “architect of her misery”: the hero of Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film “The Pianist” was none other than Szpilman.

How do intellectuals react in a period of crisis? How big is the gap between ideas and actions? What did Sartre and de Beauvoir, Camus, Picasso, Cocteau, Aragon and Elsa, Marc Block, Mauriac and so many others do when Paris was plunged into the darkness of the German Occupation? Some resisted or escaped. Some collaborated or adapted. In his revealing book, Dan Frank spares no one. He sketches each one individually, the moment of truth. And their reaction is not always what we might imagine.

...it reads like an extraordinary tapestry of Central Europe and specifically of Jewish Poland in the bleakest years of the twentieth century.

A mosaic of stories of heroism, resistance, persecutions and selfsacrifice, as well as of compromises, betrayals and opportunism...

Ilias Manglinis, Kathimerini

Stavroula Papaspyrou, Athens Voice

LITERATURE

The Rescue

The lovely life of Clara Siato

The world’s silence, resistance in the ghettoes and the camps, the Greek Jews during the Occupation

and other salonican stories

kARINA LAMPSA Journalist - Writer IAkOV SIMbI Historian

Narratives, testimonies and poems conjure up the atmosphere of Thessaloniki and of Jewish community from the late nineteenth century until the Second World War. Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk paints the portrait of a woman in love, who survives the German Occupation in Greece and later lives in Palestine. Aharon Megged describes the harsh life of the Salonican dockworkers-porters, the hamals, with allusions to the Holocaust. Yehuda Haim Perahia transports us to old Salonica, through the life of a family with a nubile daughter, Biba, describing the traditions and the values of the Jewish community in that period. In the short story by Rachel Alkalai, Palomika is obliged to leave Thessaloniki for Palestine, where she will experience the contrasts of two very different worlds.

Between 1939 and 1943, hundreds of thousands of Jews were trapped in over 400 ghettoes in the occupied lands of Eastern Europe. By the summer of 1944, all the ghettoes had been evacuated and most of the prisoners had been exterminated. When did the world learn of the genocide going on in the heart of Europe? What did the Allies do to stop the slaughter? Could Chief Rabbi Koretz have prevented the extinction of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki? Why were the Jews who had gathered in Athens saved? Who organized the rescue operation in the Aegean? The agreements between the British secret services, the Jewish Agency and the Greek National Resistance Front (ΕΑΜ) opened the way from the escape from Euboea. 432 pages | 15×21 cm | 172 illustrations | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-63-3 | € 25

Translation: IAkOV SIMbI Historian Editing: kARINA LAMPSA Journalist - Writer

Excavation Manual

The Thinker of Marousi

GEORGE CH. CHOURMOUZIADIS

Memories and conversations with Yannis Tsarouchis

Professor Emeritus of Prehistoric Archaeology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Archaeologists are people too, says G. Chourmouziadis. He speaks of their hopes and their disappointments, their weaknesses and their obsessions, their emotions during the difficult hours of the excavation. About the minor human moments, as well as the major problems of the profession, as large-scale excavations are discontinued due to lack of funding, archaeological theories are overturned rapidly and archaeological methods are ensnared by the technocratic demands of archaeometry. 128 pages | 15×22.5 cm | 23 illustrations | Paper back | Greek 13 978-960-7037-80-0 | € 19

MARIA kARAVIA

Journalist - Author

Lively texts with memories of the journalistic friendship that developed between Maria Karavia and Yannis Tsarouchis over the years. Their witty conversations over the course of twenty years (1967-1987) and a series of rare photographs of the great painter at unknown moments in his life compose an exceptionally well-written and revealing book. 128 pages | 17×26 cm | 50 duo tone illustrations | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-23-7 | € 30

Tsarouchis had deliberated deeply on what is called Greece. He gave value to disparaged figures of tradition and intuitively recognized their very ancient origin and their great value. Μaria Karavia, Realnews

LITERATURE

Τhe broken game

Giannis Dallas

Costas Axelos’s last interview

To come out of myself …

GIORGOS DOUATZIS Poet Endnote: MARIOS MPEGZOS Professor

GIORGOS DOUATZIS Poet Endnote: GIORGOS bLAΝΑS Poet

of Comparative Philosophy of Religion

In a conversation de profundis, Costas Axelos speaks about man and society, love and philosophy, life and death. The publication includes an extensive curriculum vitae of the influential intellectual, a full bibliography of his works in Greek, photographs and a manuscript. 80 pages | 12×22 cm | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-49-7 | € 10

…Our age has fallen low and philosophy is living its end. Ideologies are dying generalized. After these, a mediocre deceptive mentality will dominate for a long time. This mentality has elements of everything, … but it will be a muddle, that is, an omelette, without this meaning that it is thought. It makes men think that they are thinking… Costas Axelos

An important figure in Greek Letters, the poet, essayist, translator and academic Giannis Dallas bares his soul to Giorgos Douatzis. In a pithy, exciting conversation and a biographical narration in the first person. In the endnote G. Blanas records all aspects of G. Dallas’s oeuvre. The publication also includes a full bibliography of Dallas’s writings and of reviews of these, unpublished photographs and a manuscript of the poet.

144 pages | 12×22 cm | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-64-0 | € 13

Fatherland of the Times GEORGE DOUATZIS Poet

A poem of social and political hue. At the heart are the economic crisis and its impact on Greek society, the vain consumerism, the dominance of the mass media, the apathy of the citizens. And the conviction that there is no other way out than emotional and intellectual alertness.

48 pages | 12×22 cm | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-41-1 | € 11

Rafts GEORGE DOUATZIS Poet

Poems that speak of the self-deceptions and the disappointments of youth, about the weak and the scorned, about the loneliness of the poet and the salvation of words… 96 pages | 12×22 cm | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-54-1 | € 13

George Douatzis is the poet of the public angst. In “Rafts” he has leant exactly on this raft of life. Costas Georgousopoulos

Photopoems Photos - Poems: GEORGE DOUATZIS Texts: LAbRINI bENATSI Art Historian Notes: GIANNIS METZIkOFF Painter - Set Designer DORA ILIOPOULOU-ROGAN Dr, Art Historian, Art Critic 192 pages | 24.5×28 cm | 226 illustrations | Cloth hard cover | Greek and English 978-960-6878-33-6 | € 48

Reflections of the soul itself, and not just reflections of light are orchestrated in the Giorgos Douatzis’s creations, in an attempt to detect this itself: of the aura that surrounds the animate and the inanimate in one, proportionally equivalent, intensity… Dora Iliopoulou-Rogan

YANNIS CH. PAPAΪOANNOU Architect - Art Historian

With a doctoral thesis in abstract painting and a fertile grounding in the dense and succinct language of poetry, the architect Yannis Papaïoannou presents us with a playful series of exercises in abstract thinking in his new book In Brief. His observations on the fleeting nature of human existence and the eternal character of existentialist enquiry are a precious distillation of a lifetime’s experience, expressed with rigorous brevity and witty sharpness.

96 pages | 15×19 cm | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-05-3 | € 12

Passage YANNIS CH. PAPAΪOANNOU Architect - Art Historian

The 96 poems in this collection, personal notes as it were about the necessity of Distillation, are developed in five thematic units. Central issues, among others, are the question of crucial formulation, the ambivalences of images, the paths of Love from pleasure to pain, and last, the references to time with the quirks of chance that leave us defenceless in the face of the deceit of vindication. 112 pages | 15×21 cm | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-56-5 | € 12

ACADEMY OF ATHENS AWARD

Through the Gates YANNIS CH. PAPAΪOANNOU Architect - Art Historian

A selection of poems by Yannis Papaïoannou from the period 1961-1989. 96 pages | 21×23.5 cm | Paper back | Greek 13 978-960-220-024-7 | € 12

…And I wonder now: did I prophesy then this excellent result? I would be very pleased to know that I foresaw such a serious, clear, experienced, austere, charming work… Κiki Dimoula

LITERATURE

In Brief

Constructive embarrassment CHRONIS kARACHALIOS

Economist

A collection of poems in which Chronis V. Karachalios, making his debut in the field, sketches a picture of the ego that is mirrored in fear and in love. He draws an image of detection and atonement of the past now that collectivity becomes an imperative need. He paints a picture of calm acceptance of the global change that is taking place, imprinting emotions that bring a fertile embarrassment. 64 pages | 15×21 cm | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-45-9 | € 12

Unequal Roads GIORGOS bOUROGIANNIS

Αrchaeologist

Life as a crossroad, as a journey on unequal roads and feelings. Persons, places, beauty and ugliness, noise and silence, truth and vanity, the everyday and the unexpected. The continuous travelling between familiar and unfamiliar, the security of the known and the search for the unknown, the observation of others and the introspection of the self. Tesserae of human moments, a purview of the world from the inside outwards and vice-versa. 64 pages | 15×21 cm | Paper back | Greek 978-960-6878-69-5 | € 12