Pellana Royal Tombs by John Varoutsios

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Producer:  John Varoutsios Tomb guide: Stavros Maheras The following video depicts my family’s visit to Greece in 2000. We visited the Laconia or Lacedaemonia Region of Peloponnese where my father Dimitrios Varoutsos has his “city home” in Sparti and his “horio-home” in Pellana. Click on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBsqBW5rWek In the late summer of 2000 my family and...

World History Time Line

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 The following Time line World events was compiled by Petter Vikens and can be found by visiting his website at: Time Line I found it most useful when researching for particular dates.  It start in 17,000,000,000 B.C and finishes in 1996. I believe that is when Petter Viken stopped adding to the Time line. It is momentous task and and...

Nick Malliaros – A dedication

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Nick Malliaros was born in Melbourne some 40 years ago. His parents were both from Greece and his father was originally for the town of Pellana. Although I first met his father called Paul in 1969 when he arrived in Australia as a seaman, it was his son and daughter that I felt a...

An ongoing brief history of Pellana

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Introduction. This article is based on articles gathered from electronic and written sources readily available to the reader on the internet. The article also has been embellished by information gathered from, verbal and observational sources over the past forty years. Much of the information is anecdotal where for example an Auntie or Uncle would...

PELLANA IS LACEDAEMON

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Nick Bakis Archaeologists tell us that the ancient city of Pellana, located on the border between Lacedaemon and Arcadia, was one of the first six settlements inhabited by Greeks in the Peloponnese. According to ancient sources, there were three settlements in this area in Mycenaean times. They were Pellana (Πελλάνα); Velemina (Βελεμίνα), to the...

ΣΠΑΡΤΑΘΛΟΝ 2010

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Βιλλη Κακαφλικα 24 September 2010 Σπάρταθλον 2010 – Στα βήματα του Φειδιππίδη 2.500 χρόνια μετά Με αφετηρία κάτω από τον ιερό βράχο της Ακρόπολης στην Αθήνα και τερματισμό το άγαλμα του βασιλιά Λεωνίδα στη Σπάρτη, θα πραγματοποιηθεί ο 28ος...

In Great Grandfather and Great Grandmothers house

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Dr Georgia Kakourou-Chroni – National Gallery Curator Sparta, Greece  (gchroni@otenet.gr) Paper presented for the conference “Can Oral History Make Objects Speak?”, Nafplion, Greece. October 18-21, 2005. Questions like the one ICME poses: Education and Oral History. What contribution can...

ANTIGUA Pellana, Mycenaean CAPITAL

ANTIGUA Pellana, Mycenaean CAPITAL The site of the former Pellana is located on the hillside of fall Taygetos, midway between Sparta and Megalopolis. The rugged, hilly and difficult, the fertile valley surrounding Evrotas gave Pellana a unique strategic position....

INSCRIPTIONS

INSCRIPTIONS Delphi.-In B.C.H., XLIX, 1925, pp. 21-60 (pl. V.), EMILE BOURGUET comments upon the work of the Germans, and particularly of Pomtow, on the finds at Delphi, from the point of view of the inscriptions. He proves that Pomtow...

Ancient Games at Pellana

Ancient Games at Pellana Pindar told of the enormous variety of prizes won by the Theaeus family of Argos, including heirloom vases filled with olive oil, wool cloaks, silver cups, and numerous bronze objects. From the odes, we learn...

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