Collector's edition | THE AEGEAN

456 pages

379 color and 191 black & white photographs, 23 drawing

hardback with cardboard coverbox, 30x25 cm

The publication is available in 200 signed and numbered copies. It includes the book with a specially crafted cover in a handmade plexiglass box.

The book consists of a collection of eleven essays that provide an assesment of the influence the Aegean world has exerted upon Greek art and civilization throughout the ages. Eleven authors, all leading experts in their fields of history, literature and art, highlight important aspects of the Aegean world in texts that combine up-to-date scholarship with a lively re-evaluation of philosophy, architecture, sculpture, painting, etc. The book's most engaging quality, however, is the manner in which it attempts to convey a vivid image of the Aegean Sea and the civilization that flourished on its islands.

Illustrated throughout with unique, often full page aerial photographs and drawings, the volume brilliantly captures the essence of Greek civilization and constitutes a lively introduction to the history of the Aegean world. It also provides a comprehensive study and evaluation of its many aspects and succeeds in establishing it as a point of reference for Western culture.

Odysseus Elytis

Draft for an introduction to the Aegean World

 

Nikos Svoronos

A retrospective of Aegean history

 

Manolis Andronicos

The contribution of the Aegean islands to the artistic development of the ancient world

 

Charalambos Bouras

Byzantine architecture in the Aegean

 

Myrtali Acheimastou-Potamianou

Byzantine art in the Aegean

 

Charalambos Bouras

Architecture and town-planning in the traditional settlements of the Aegean 

 

Anastasios Tzamtzis

Shipping, a brief consideration through the ages

 

Angelos Delivorrias

Traditional art on the Aegean islands

 

Lambros Liavas

The early Aegean and its contribution to the development of Western Thought

 

Yiorgos Yiatromanolakis

The Aegean and Greek literature