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Hard cover, 37 cm, 337 pp., ill., weight 3510 gr. Myth and history lose themselves in the limitless blue of the sea. The Aegean, the cradle of civilization! Whichever of its local waters today's seafarer traverses - Myrtoan,Thracian, Icarian, Cretan, or Karpathian, there will come to mind gods, heroes, and nymphs, the very stuff of Greek myth and folktale down the ages.The Aegean is arguably the most fascinating stretch of water in the Mediterranean, to judge by its tributes from poets. Its seven island chains are a unique piece of Nature's architecture, thoughtfully bestowed on Greece by the gods to grace their native land. Reams could be written about it, but one need only remember that poetry flourished in its aquatic environment, from Geometric times onwards, far more intensely than in other regions of the Greek world. Homer was, they say, an Aegean. As our cultural heritage, a bridge between past and present, the Aegean archipelago is a fixed point of reference for us all. In this book, "Aegean… Read More