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Article: Greece's past awaits in high, remote places.(Travel)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 25, 2000
- Author:
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It is a small room to have held so much history, so much bloodshed, This banqueting hall high in the Greek hills. Poseidon Earthshaker and Father Chronos have combined forces to shake its frescoes from its walls and the timbers from its roof.
The floor still exists, a long rectangle of large blocks of stone, now rising and tipping from the movement of the earth but still showing the bases of the pillars that held up the long-vanished roof. Perhaps the architect built the destroyed exterior wall only waist-high to let in the herb-scented winds that cool the heat of summer at this altitude.
Shutters or hide curtains would have been enough to keep out ...
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