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submitted by O Kosmos on 27.10.2010

A Link Between: Adventure, Philanthropy, Youth, History, Belief and Hellenic Culture

O Kosmos, Tuesday 26 October 2010, page 28

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The following is a story of how a team from Greece and the Diaspora helped reopen a 720 year old church, built using columns from a temple erected 1900 years earlier (2600 years ago) on the Greek island of Kythera.

By John Fardoulis



When questioning ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by O Kosmos on 23.10.2010

Rediscovering Kythera’s Ancient Laconian-Controlled Capital

By John Fardoulis

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Kythera (also spelt Cythera in ancient times) is an island approximately 30km long, by 20km wide and is known as the place where the worship of Aphrodite originated for the Hellenic world. What’s not commonly understood is how significant the Laconian influence has been.

Located ...

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submitted by O Kosmos on 21.10.2010

A Tale of Heritage, Culture & Adventure

O Kosmos,

Tuesday 19th October, 2010.

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Longer Report, Rediscovering Kythera's Ancient Capital:

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Now that there’s a level of economic and educational ...

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submitted by Archaeological Institute Of Athens, Sydney on 17.05.2010

Goddess. Property of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens



Report by, Wayne Mullen, Executive Officer

The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens was established in 1980 following negotiations with the Greek government. The Institute is similar to the other scholarly institutions in Athens maintained by major European and American countries. Some of these, such as the French School (École Française d'Athènes), the American School of Classical Studies ...

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submitted by James Victor Prineas on 14.12.2009

Με την Βορειοδυτικη Ελλαδα συνδεεται πιθανως ο...

...Μηχανισμος των Αντικυθηρων...

Article in Greek, in the Greek-Australian newspaper, O Kosmos, Friday 11th December, 2009, page 25

AKM_p_25_O_Kosmos_epikairotites.pdf

History > Archaeology

submitted by Kytherian Historical Record on 28.11.2009

Criticisms...and response to criticisms of Decoding the Heavens

Jo Marchant's book, Decoding the Heavens has elicited a number of critical responses.

A recent Greek translation of this book was published together with a list of explanatory or corrective footnotes. The following is an extended list of comments, compiled by members of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, who were coauthors of two papers about the Antikythera Mechanism in the science journal Nature:

T. Freeth; Y. Bitsakis; X. Moussas; ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by John Fardoulis on 27.11.2009

Members of the newly founded Kytherian Historical Institute

with Professor Robert Hannah, at the Nicholson Museum, Sydney University, Thursday, 26th November, 2009.



From left to right

John Comino, John Fardoulis, Professor Robert Hannah, Dimitri Andreatidis, George Crones.


Archaeoastronomy at the Nicholson.


The Nicholson Museum at The University of Sydney ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by Panayiotis Diamadis on 03.12.2009

With Professor Robert Hannah....

...at the Nicholson Museum, Sydney University, Thursday, 26th November, 2009.



From right to left

George Poulos, Trustee, Kytherian World Heritage Fund, Dianna Fatsea, Media Publicist, Kytherian World Heritage Fund, Professor Hannah, and the famous Antikythera mechanism model, of Bromley.

Archaeoastronomy at the Nicholson.


The Nicholson Museum ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by Panayiotis Diamadis on 27.11.2009

Various ways of contemplating the Antikythera mechanism....

...at the Nicholson Museum, Sydney University, Thursday, 26th November, 2009.



Let me take a really close look at this...

I am going off to find out more about this...maybe even buy Professor Hannah's book....

I really have to think about this....

Archaeoastronomy at the Nicholson.


The Nicholson Museum at The University of Sydney was packed to ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by Panayiotis Diamadis on 27.11.2009

One of the many slides displayed by Professor Robert Hannah....

...at the Nicholson Museum, Sydney University, Thursday, 26th November, 2009.



Archaeoastronomy at the Nicholson.


The Nicholson Museum at The University of Sydney was packed to the rafters Thursday evening for a fascinating presentation on one of the great mysteries of ancient Hellenism: the Antikythera Mechanism. ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by John Fardoulis on 03.12.2009

Professor Robert Hannah, lecturing to a packed audience

...at the Nicholson Museum, Sydney University, Thursday, 26th November, 2009.

The "patrons" of www.kythera-family.net look on approvingly, on the right hand side.



Archaeoastronomy at the Nicholson.


The Nicholson Museum at The University of Sydney was packed to the rafters Thursday evening for a fascinating presentation on one of the great mysteries of ancient Hellenism: ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by John Fardoulis on 27.11.2009

Professor Robert Hannah, really warming up, during his lecture

...at the Nicholson Museum, Sydney University, Thursday, 26th November, 2009.

The "patrons" of www.kythera-family.net look on approvingly, on the right hand side.



Archaeoastronomy at the Nicholson.


The Nicholson Museum at The University of Sydney was packed to the rafters Thursday evening for a fascinating presentation on one of the great mysteries of ancient Hellenism: ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by John Fardoulis on 03.12.2009

Robert Hannah, speaking about the Antikythera mechanism

...at the Nicholson Museum, Sydney University, Thursday, 26th November, 2009.



Archaeoastronomy at the Nicholson.


The Nicholson Museum at The University of Sydney was packed to the rafters Thursday evening for a fascinating presentation on one of the great mysteries of ancient Hellenism: the Antikythera Mechanism. ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by Kytherian Cultural Exchange on 12.11.2009

Robert Hannah. One of the foremost authorities in the Southern Hemisphere

...on the Antikythera Mechanism



BA (Otago) MPhil (Oxon), FSA, Professor

Email Robert, here

Robert Hannah graduated from Otago and Oxford. He teaches courses principally in Greek ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by George Vardas on 02.06.2008

MINOAN CIVILISATION ON KYTHERA: THE PEAK SANCTUARY OF AGIOS GEORGIOS STO VOUNO

It was a typically hot August day on Kythera. In the picturesque fishing village of Avlemonas below, locals must have been intrigued at the sight of a tourist walking up the gravel and rocky slopes leading to Agios Georgios sto vouno, the white washed chapel located on the hilltop above and, at 350 metres above sea level, the highest point on the island.

But in August 1991, something exciting was about to happen to the newspaper editor and amateur archaeologist, Adonis Kyrou. As ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by Kytherian Newsletter Sydney on 07.05.2006

Kythera: A Mediterranean Island Through Time



From the Invitation to the Stavros Paspalas Lecture on Archaeological Research on Kythera.

From, The KYTHERIAN, MAY 2006, Page 8

[Newsletter of the Kytherian Association of Australia.]

by, George Vardas


On 5 April 2006 more than 200 people crowded into the General Lecture Theatre in the Main Quadrangle of Sydney University to hear an enthralling lecture ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by The Australian Paliohora Kythera Archaeological Survey (APKAS) on 29.12.2005

Two pyramidal loom weights, classical period, from Vythoulas



Prehistory: before 1000 B.C.

The earliest recorded archaeological evidence for human occupation of Kythera indicates that the island was inhabited by the Early Bronze Age. Early Helladic sites have been identified so far in the northern part of the Island, at Pyreatides and at Vythoulas, between Ayia Pelayia and Potamos (Waterhouse & Hope-Simpson 1961:149).

History > Archaeology

submitted by George Poulos on 14.06.2004

Kythera Island Project (KIP)



One of the most stimulating and exciting Archaeological sites on Kythera is the Kythera Island Project (KIP).

KIP Directors are:

Cyprian Broodbank (University College London)

Evangelia Kiriatzi (Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens)

[The British School at Athens was involved in the 1972 study of Kythera, by J. N. Coldstream, and G.L. Huxley. (See, Culture, subsection, ...

History > Archaeology

submitted by George Poulos on 13.05.2004

Paliohora -THE AUSTRALIAN PALIOCHORA-KYTHERA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY - Draft Manuscript for Monograph

From APKAS draft of manuscript for Sydney University Archaeological Monographs and Studies

2.0 The Island of Kythera

2.1 Geomorphological setting

Kythera lies at the edge of the Eurasian tectonic plate where it slides over the African tectonic plate sinking into the Ionian Deep. Part of the Aegean Arc, which itself is part of the great Alpine-Himalayan Range, Kythera is rising out of the Mediterranean at a rate equal to sea level rise during ...