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Μια ενδιαφέρουσα διάλεξη του Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith, KCVO CMG, με θέμα: «Crete on the Eve of Enosis», οργανώνεται την Τρίτη 27^η Μαΐου 2014, στις 6.00 μ.μ., από το Anglo-Hellenic league και τους Friends of the British School at Athens (FBSA).

Η σχετική ανακοίνωση περιέχει τα εξής:

Tickets £8.50, £10.50 for non Members of the FSBA booked in advance from Friends of the British School at Athens, 12 Sovereign Court, 51 Gillingham Street, London SW1V 1HS.

Further information on 020 7486 9410 (answering service) or at info@anglohellenicleague.org.

Michael Llewellyn-Smith was born in 1939. He was educated at Wellington College at Crowthorne, Berkshire, a public school founded in memory of the Great Duke of Wellington, and at New College, Oxford University, where he studied classics, ancient history and philosophy. He went on to obtain a D Phil at St Antony’s College Oxford, for his doctoral thesis on the Greek occupation of Smyrna (Izmir) and western Asia Minor in 1919-22.

He is the author of four books with themes in Greek history and culture. The Great Island is a book about the history, culture and folklore of the island of Crete, reflecting his travels and researches there in the early 1960s (travels with a donkey!). Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor 1919-1922 is the story of Greece’s ill-fated venture into Asia Minor, ending with the destruction of Smyrna and the end of the ancient Greek communities of Asia Minor. Olympics in Athens 1896: the Invention of the Modern Olympic Games is the story of how the young Greek state and the city of Athens developed rapidly to a point at which they found it possible to host successfully the first modern Games. Athens: a Cultural and Literary History presents the life and culture of the city of Athens across the centuries, explaining how the modern city copes with its ancient heritage.

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