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Author Begg, Ian, author.

Title Lost worlds of ancient and modern Greece Gilbert Bagnani : the adventures of a young Italian archaeologist in Greece, 1921-1924 / D. J. Ian Begg
Published Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Archaeopress Archaeological Lives
Archaeological lives.
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents Page -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Timeline -- Maps -- Prologue -- Odysseus vs. Achilles -- 1. Vengeance -- 2. Back in Time -- 1. Italian School -- 2. Italian School and Acropolis from Olympieion -- 3. Imposing Ruins -- 4. Marble Sepulchres -- 3. Roman Agora -- 5. The Arms Merchant and the Secret Agent -- 6. Foreign Correspondent -- 7. The Oracle of Apollo and St. Paul -- 4. Delphi Marmaria tholos and treasuries -- 5. Gilbert Bagnani overseeing dig on South Slope
8. The Renaissance at a Byzantine Outpost -- 6. Mistra Pantanassa monastery -- 7. Mistra Ayia Sophia before restoration -- 8. Mt Ithome Monastery of Vourkano left to right: Gilbert Bagnani, monk, Doro Levi -- 9. Olympia Temple of Hera -- 10. Naupaktos harbour -- 11. Arta Ayia Theodora with bell tower -- 12. Orchomenos Skripou church -- 9. Exposed -- 10. In the Land of the Knights of Rhodes -- 11. The King of Kos -- 12. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea -- 13. Smyrna and its harbor from Mt. Pagos -- 13. Monasteries in the Air -- 14. In the Minotaur's Labyrinth on Crete -- 15. Inferno -- 16. Executions
17. The Pharaoh's Curse -- 18. The Castles of the Giant Cyclopes -- 14. Left to right: Florence Bagnani, Verschoyle Blake and Gilbert Bagnani -- 19. A Surviving Byzantine Republic -- 20. Karpathos: The Island of Poseidon -- 21. Paradise Lost -- 22. Mission to the Underworld: Spying for Mussolini -- 23. Lost Greek Empires -- 24. Land of the Golden Fleece -- Epilogue -- List of Figures -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover
Summary This book relates three years (1921-1924) in the life of Gilbert Bagnani, a young Italian archaeologist in Greece, based on his letters to his mother in Rome, at first as a non-partisan observer of, and later as an active participant in, some of the most tumultuous events in modern Greek history
Subject Bagnani, Gilbert, 1900-1985.
SUBJECT Bagnani, Gilbert, 1900-1985 fast
Subject Archaeologists -- Italy -- Biography
Archaeologists -- Canada -- Biography
Archaeology -- History -- 20th century
Archaeologists
Archaeology
SUBJECT Greece -- History -- 1917-1944. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057102
Subject Canada
Greece
Italy
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781789694536
1789694531