- What we see depends mainly on what we look for
John Lubbock (1834-1913) - No two pairs of eyes see the same thing in the same thing
J.C. & A.W. Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers (London: J. Taylor, 1827) - Le seul véritable voyage … ce ne serait pas d′aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d′avoir d′autres yeux
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) - Les yeux voient seulement ce que l′esprit est préparé à comprendre
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) - People only see what they are prepared to see
Ralf Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - One may have good eyes and yet see nothing
Italian proverb - The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing
Publilius Syrus (ca. 100 BC) - Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore
Andre Gide (1869-1951) - Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986) - We don′t see things as they are, we see things as we are
Anais Nin (1903-1977) - Τo see what is in front of one′s nose needs a constant struggle
George Orwell (1903-1950) - There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) - You can′t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus
Mark Twain (1835-1910) - Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) - With respect to normal science part of the answer to the problem of progress lies simply to the eye of the beholder
T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago 1970), 163 - During revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before
T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago 1970), 111 - What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see
T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago 1970), 113 - Almost always the men who achieve fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they changed. These are the men who are particularly likely to see that the traditional rules of normal science no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them
T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago 1970), 90 - If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) - …car le devoir de tout savant, lorsque des faits nouveaux lui font voir qu′il s′était trompé sur un point, est de le confesser hautement et de proclamer avant tout la vérité
François Lenormant, Revue archéologique 1866, 425 - Four eyes see more than two
German proverb - The eyes are of little use if the mind be blind
Arabian proverb - The eyes do not see what the mind does not want
Indian proverb - What you see in the woods and mountains depends on what you go for and what you carry with you
James Elliott Cabot (1821-1904) - What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see
T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago 1970), 113 - Almost always the men who achieve fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they changed. These are the men who are particularly likely to see that the traditional rules of normal science no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them
T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago 1970), 90 - If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) - …car le devoir de tout savant, lorsque des faits nouveaux lui font voir qu′il s′était trompé sur un point, est de le confesser hautement et de proclamer avant tout la vérité
François Lenormant, Revue archéologique 1866, 425 - Four eyes see more than two
German proverb - The eyes are of little use if the mind be blind
Arabian proverb - The eyes do not see what the mind does not want
Indian proverb - What you see in the woods and mountains depends on what you go for and what you carry with you
James Elliott Cabot (1821-1904) - Τα μάτια αλλάζουν βλέμμα, δεν αλλάζουν όμως χρώμα
Ανώνυμος (γκράφιτι στα Εξάρχεια) - Οι σκέψεις μας γίνονται, γεννιούνται στην κάθε μας ματιά
Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος (1901-1975) - Είναι τα βλέφαρά μου διάφανες αυλαίες, όταν τανοίγω βλέπω εμπρός μου ό,τι κι′ αν τύχει, όταν τα κλείνω βλέπω εμπρός μου ό,τι ποθώ
Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος (1901-1975) - Σωπαίνει ο καθένας μπρος στον άλλον κοιτάζοντας, ο καθένας, τον ίδιο κόσμο χωριστά
Γιώργος Σεφέρης (1900-1971) - Πέρασαν τόσα και τόσα μπροστά στα μάτια μας, που και τα μάτια μας δεν είδαν τίποτε
Γιώργος Σεφέρης (1900-1971) - Βλέπω να με κοιτάζει ακόμη ένα αέτωμα γεμάτο αγάλματα ακρωτηριασμένα
Γιώργος Σεφέρης (1900-1971) - Δύο μάτια ευκίνητα και ακίνητα σαν τον αγέρα
Γιώργος Σεφέρης (1900-1971) - Έχω δει πολλά και η γη μεσ′ απ′ το νου μου φαίνεται ωραιότερη
Οδυσσέας Ελύτης (1911-1996)
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15 December 2011
Scribi e Pastori. Amministrazione e gestione dell’allevamento nell’archivio di Cnosso
Athens/Padova 2010
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12 December 2011
Η Μυκηναϊκή Ακρόπολη της Μιδέας (The Mycenaean Acropolis of Midea)
Athens 2010
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17 December 2011
Socializing Geoarchaeology: Insights from Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice Applied to Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete
Geoarchaeology 25 (2010): 675-708.
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17 December 2011
14C Dating of the Early to Late Bronze Age Stratigraphic Sequence of Aegina Kolonna, Greece
In M.B.H. Breese et al. (eds) 2010: 1013-1021.
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17 December 2011
Χριστουγεννιάτικο Παζάρι
Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, 19-22 Δεκεμβρίου 2011
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12 December 2011
Προστασία και ανάδειξη Πελλάνας Λακωνίας
Αρχαιολογία και Τέχνες, 8-12-2011
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19 October 2011
Preliminary excavation report on the Mycenaean settlement of Tzannata (Kefalonia)
Andonis Vasilakis
read moreA new rescue excavation, directed by Dr Andonis Vasilakis, Director of the 35th Ephoreia has taken place in August to October 2011 at the location ‘Riza’ near the village Tzannata/Poros, in the island of Kefalonia (Fig. 1). The new excavation has revealed part of a LH settlement, connected with...
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02 March 2011
Georgakopoulou, M., 2011. Review of P.P. Betancourt (ed.), 2006. The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory [Hesperia Supplement 36], Princeton, New Jersey: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
read moreThe present monograph marks the first comprehensive publication of a systematically excavated prehistoric metal production workshop in the Aegean. Although other broadly contemporaneous slag heaps are known in this region, the site of Chrysokamino in north-eastern Crete represents a particularly...
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20 November 2011
Die letzte Elite der mykenischen Welt. Achaia in mykenischer Zeit und das Phänomen der Kriegerbestattungen im 12. - 11. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
Theodoros G. Giannopoulos
Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg 2007
read moreThe aim of the present study is to examine the historical development of Achaea in the Mycenaean period, i.e. the landscape of the north-western Peloponnese that preserved in its place-name up to the present day the designation of a much larger and much more important part of Late Bronze Age...