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SANTORINI HOTEL
One of the best managed hotels, the Tzekos offers an excellent option for those who want a quiet hotel, easy access to the town and its night life, and a splendid view of the volcano and the sea. TZEKOS VILLAS is an A’ class hotel located in Thira, Santorini. Its 21 rooms are built on 3 levels. All units have private bathroom with shower/W.C, self regulated A/C (warm and cold), a small refrigerator, TV, direct dial telephone, radio with piped music, safe box and terrace or balcony with volcano and sea view.

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Welcome to your reliable replacement for History class. This is the second episode of True (and Accurate) History With Snapwave, a series of informative and educational videos told through Civilization V and hosted by a real teacher.

Our first stop is Greece. In this episode, the three-way war continues, Nobunaga refuses to play chess, and Montezuma gets his revenge for that time Alexander called him a ‘peacock-headed buffoon’.

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Music: “Bolero (Erichslownius Mix)” – Snapwave

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How to play “Song of Seikilos” (c.200BCE – 100CE)!

A studio quaility recording of this piece can now be heard on my NEW ALBUM, “An Ancient Lyre” :

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mlevy4

This video features a detailed discussion of “The Song of Seikilos” – unique in musical history, as it is the only piece of music from antiquity in the entire Western world, that has SO far been found, which has survived in its COMPLETE form, and unlike much earlier surviving fragments of melodies that have been found, this song is written in a totally unambiguous ALPHABETICAL musical notation, which can be played, note for note, as it was written…2000 YEARS AGO!

http://www.amaranthpublishing.com/SongOfSeikilos.htm

This melody is an amazing musical legacy from ancient Greece; a precious remnant of a long-forgotten musical culture now forever lost in the mists of time…

I have recently learnt that “The Song of Sekilos” is, in fact a “Skolion”…an ancient Greek DRINKING SONG! (What a GREAT idea of the ancient Greeks to put a drinking song on a TOMBSTONE – I want one to be on MINE!!).

Although much older music has been found (& which I have had a go at recreating on some of my other Youtube uploads), all that remains are either just pitiful fragments of the melodies, or the way the melodies have been notated in ancient times have SO many modern interpretations that the actual melody is still mostly academic guess work.

About 2000 years after it was written, this melody was rediscovered in 1883, in its complete & original form. It was found inscribed in marble on an ancient Greek burial stele, bearing the following epitaph: “I am a portrait in stone. I was put here by Seikilos, where I remain forever, the symbol of timeless remembrance”.

The words of the song are:

“Hoson zes, phainou
Meden holos su lupou;
Pros oligon esti to zen
To telos ho chronos apaitei”
(While you live, shine
Don’t suffer anything at all;
Life exists only a short while
And time demands its toll)

My Albums of Ancient Lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from iTunes:

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They are also available from Amazon MP3 Store:

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Also, my 3 CD albums, “King David’s Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel”, “An Ancient Lyre” & “Lyre of the Levites” are available anywhere in the world from CD Baby:

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/MichaelLevy

For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of “Musical Adventures in Time Travel”, please visit my official website:

http://www.ancientlyre.com

Many thanks for watching!

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We are going to Aquis Marine Resort and Waterpark in Tingaki ,Cos in greece and were wondering if anyone new if there are any clubs or good bars around that are?

Where you are staying there isn’t a really big night life some nice bars. You will have to go into Kos Town to go to Clubs. KArdamena is the main party resort.

how long would it take to drive from Calais, France to Lefkada, Greece?

Thankks’<3

1 day 3 hours.
This route has tolls.
This route includes a ferry.
This route crosses through multiple countries.

I will be in Greece for 3 months this year and will be looking to buy a used moped/50CC bike (specifically, in Evia)

How much should I expect to pay? I understand of course that it depends on the bike, but should I expect a used bike to cost E500 or E2000?

I bought one two years ago for 800 Euro in Heraklion and it works like magic.
I will be using it this summer as well.

Hello, i was just wondering what is the best way to travel from Greece to Germany. I have had a look on the train websites but I haven’t really found much info for Greece to Germany.
The order of places we want to travel to is London – Paris – Spain – Italy – Greece – Greek Islands – Germany.
Is this the best order to travel to them in? or is there a better order.
We will be going the end of August to end of Septemper.
We are hoping to be in Germany for Octoberfest.

If you want to do this trip on that order, the best way is by plane… Aegean Airlines, for example, will cost you 150 euros to fly from Athens to Munich, i think it’s the best way, it’s faster and more relaxing. You will take the ferry from Athens to the Greek islands, and then the ferry back to Athens port (Piraeus) from there you can take the suburban train to the airport.

If you want the train, i guess through Venice would be better (see in http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/). Most Greeks that travel around Europe by car/motorbike take the ferry to Italy from the city of Patra, and then travel from there.

I’ve been researching ancient Greece, and it seems that divorce was pretty common if the wife wasn’t having children. So with a divorce, from what I’ve learned, the "ownership" of the woman would pass from the husband back to her father. But I also read that families would sell family members sometimes if they didn’t have enough money. Would it be a sort of normal thing for a husband to sell their wife, if she wasn’t producing an heir? Thanks.

No such incident is referred in any ancient greek source. And with the laws of the time, this would be impossible. Ancient greek society was male-dominant, but that doesnt mean that women then were considered as a property of their husbands.
On the contrary, women in ancient Greece owned property. And despite they had lesser rights than men (the most important of these rights was the right to vote and to get elected), let’s not forget that women’s suffrage was granted as late as in the 20th century.
Moreover, in Doric cities (like Sparta) women had even more rights than in Athens, or other Ionian cities. In Sparta, more than a third of Lacedaimon’s land belonged to women. Spartan women were encouraged to exercise and compete in athletic events.

Generally, anc. greek women participated strongly in the cultural offspring of classical Greece. There are countless names of female philosophers, doctors, mathematicians, poets, and other artists or scientists. Let’s not forget Damo, the pythagorean philosopher (born in 500BC), Melissa (pythagorean, too), Deinomache (doctor, daughter of Hippocrates), Hypatia (mathematician and philosopher), Timarete (painter), Leontion ( Epicurean philosopher), Anaxandra (artist and painter) and many others.

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View of Cruise Terminal in Piraeus, Greece as captured from Kroooz-Cams.com 25 June, 2009

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