The Museums Cycle

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2010. — 400 p. The Archaeological Museum of Thebes is among those repositories that shelter with affection and splendour the tangible and venerable evidence of the life and cultural creation of the distant past from various Greek regions. Thebes, the third hegemonic power of ancient Greece, made a catalytic contribution to the...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2014. — 329 p. "Kerameikos, this once-great Attic deme on the northwest outskirts of Athens, was not only the location of the most important historical cemetery between Prehistoric and Byzantine times and the msjor production site for Attica's renowned vases. It is also the place that confirms and conveys whatever is loftiest...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2006. — 373 p. This beautiful hardcover book by Rosina Colonia includes photographs of the archaeological exhibits of the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, with additional photographs of the archaeological site of Delphi and its monuments. Colonia also provides brief descriptions of the exhibits and sites.

Athens: Benaki Museum, 1997. — 622 p. — ISBN-13 978-9608452510. This book, edited by Dionisis Fotopoulos with texts by Angelos Delivorrias, constitutes a journey in pictures to the Greece of the Benaki Museum. The rich illustrations in the book show a large part of the wealth of the Museum s collections, while the informative accompanying texts give the reader-viewer a better...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2005. — 413 p. The Archaeological Museum of Heraclion, one of the most significant Greek museums, with the largest number of visitors, was established one hundred years ago under the name of “Cretan Museum” for the purpose of storing and exhibiting archaeological treasures from all over the island.

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2016. — 323 p. Thera is a place that attracts and will continue to attract the interest of the whole world. The stentorious beauty of its volcanic landscape is the obvious reason. However, its cultural reserves of global ambit will constitute a diachronic pole of attraction for the initiated aficianodo of a civilization that...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2004. — 384 p. The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki is a state museum of the Ministry of Culture and has been an autonomous unit since 2001. It has been housed in a building, designed by architect Patroklos Karantinos since 1962 and it has been designated as a listed monument of modern heritage, as it is one of the most...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2003. — 455 p. The book presents the general appearance of the island, the archaeological sites, architecture; statuary, mosaics, vases from the island's museum. As a UNESCO World Heritage site, there is a pointed effort to preserve the rlics on this island. This book is a stunningly beautiful and poignant look at the island...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2008. — 367 p. The Archaeological Museum of Olympia, one of the most important museums in Greece, presents the long history of the most celebrated sanctuary of antiquity, the sanctuary of Zeus, father of both gods and men, where the Olympic games were born. The museum's permanent exhibition contains finds from the excavations in...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2007. — 463 p. This album introduces the reader to the collections of the National Archaeological Museum, as well as the richness and diversity of its exhibits, which span the long history of the ancient world. The book provides detailed information about the history of the creation of the museum, the eras of the various...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2013. — 367 p. According to Ms Angeliki Kottaridi, author of the volume and Director of the 17th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities: “The findings in Aigai, the city which after successive destructions was forgotten in the dust of the centuries, not only gave back to the royal metropolis a name and identity, but...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2011. — 408 p. Τhis book includes photographs of monuments and exhibits from the archaeological site and Archaeological Museum of Pella, which are under the authority of the 17th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism has the copyright of the photographs of antiquities and...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2015. — 352 p. The showcasing of Greek culture has been an unwavering aim of the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, and every endeavour towards this end has been an exercise in creativity, due to the extensive diversity of our country’s cultural heritage. Every year, the Foundation has been consistently and methodically...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2002. — 364 p. Eleusis was one of the most important Panhellenic religious centres of antiquity. The cult of Demeter and Persephone – a cult with much archetypal symbolism, but always bound to the earth, vegetation and fertility – flourished at the Sanctuary. The goddess of grain gave her favourite city two great gifts:...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2020. — 330 p. The archaeologist’s spade often brings forth great surprises and exciting discoveries, sometimes in places that at first sight look unlikely or are initially underestimated. places, however, which, thanks to the perspicacity, conviction and perseverance of the excavators, reveal hidden treasures of inestimable...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2009. — 335 p. The book is the eleventh volume in the Museums Cycle series, which is published every year by the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation. It is devoted to the museum and the archaeological site of Marathon.

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2001. — 408 p. The museum collection was first assembled in 1935 and then housed in the present two-storey building in 1966. The curators, having faith in the artefacts rather than any fancy pyrotechnics in their display, have arranged the objects in simple chronological order. However, be careful, as the start of this journey...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 1998. — 452 p. Our attention is usually captured by the Parthenon and the other monuments on the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis, which, taken as a whole, create a unique sense of harmony and perfection that conduces to our overlooking or underestimating their individual component parts. But it is precisely these component parts...

Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2012. — 385 p. Nature endowed the island with fruitfulness and rare beauty. The ancient writers praised it as the island of cypresses, olive trees, and chamomile. Samos reciprocated, gifting unmatched intellects to world culture: Pythagoras, Epicurus, Aristarchus. It also bequeathed unique monuments and masterpieces of art,...