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ANCIENT DRAMA REVIVED HIGHLIGHTS FROM GREECE
A performance of Euripides’ play ‘‘Hippolytos’’ brings the powerful story to life in the historic From top left and clockwise: The Aegaion in port below Fira, Santorini; Captain Yiannis “Trikoulis” Kafieris and Manolis “Kastoria,” a muleteer from Kontohori,
and atmospheric setting of the ancient theater of Epidaurus. ©ROBERT MCCABE ©ROBERT MCCABE relax at a coffee shop in Yialos, the port of Fira, Santorini. The “Aigaion,” launched in 1911, initially operated as a cruise ship and later as liner. A fisherman in the Cyclades
prepares a «paragadi» fishing line baiting multiple hooks. The Marine Venus, found in the sea in 1929, is now displayed in the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes.
Metsovo: Four generations of women, with a distaff in its simplest form of a forked branch.
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