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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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Saturday 25.05.2013

Annual meeting of Aegeus on 17 May 2013

We would like to thank you all for attending Aegeus Annual Meeting that took place at the Upper House of the British School at Athens! We would, also, like to thank Georgia Stratouli for her excellent lecture on the Neolithic settlement in Avgi (Kastoria). Our wholehearted best wishes to Georgia Stratouli for continuation of her research activities!

NEW BOOKS: 23 May 2013

Το Ιδαίο Αντρο. Ιερό και μαντείο (3 volumes)

Yannis Sakellarakis & Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki

Athens 2013; 19 May 2013

Painting Practices in White Painted and White Slip Wares

Louise C. Maguire

Wien 2012

NEW ARTICLES: 24 May 2013

Linear A banqueting lists?

Barbara Montecchi

Kadmos 51 (2012): 1-26; 21 May 2013

The most ancient cypriot text written in Greek: the Opheltas' Spit

Yves Duhoux

Kadmos 51 (2012): 71-174

NEWS: 24 May 2013

Neanderthal Greek Paradise Found

Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News, 22-05-2013; 23 May 2013

The Settlement and Architecture of Lerna: An Interview with Elizabeth C. Banks

Andrew Reinhard, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 20-05-2013; 22 May 2013

Carl and Elizabeth Blegen Remembered; Ploutarchou 9, Celebrated

American School of Classical Studies at Athens / J.F. Costopoulos Foundation

NEW ENTRIES

Dissertations: 21 February 2013

Mycenaean Ways of War: The Past, Politics, and Personhood

Katherine Harrell

The remit of this thesis is to contextualise violence and martial culture in the Mycenaean world in order to understand how it is a source of legitimacy for political power during MH III-LH IIIB....

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Dissertations: 04 February 2013

Domesticating Mountains in Middle Bronze Age Crete: Minoan Agricultural Landscaping in the Agios Nikolaos Region

Sabine Beckmann

Over 300 dwelling sites in the mountains of north-east Crete (Agios Nikolaos), datable (by surface pottery and lithics) mainly to the Middle Bronze Age (the Minoan Protopalatial period, ca. 2000-1650 BCE) were discovered and studied....

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Dissertations: 03 December 2012

Burial Practices during the Neopalatial, Final Palatial and Postpalatial periods in Central Crete (in Greek)

Georgios Evangelou

The aim of the study is to investigate the development of the mortuary practices in Central Crete during the Neopalatial, Final Palatial and Postpalatial periods (approx. 1700 – 1200 B.C). Τhis study constitutes a first attempt at contextual analysis of the data from cretan tombs, taking account...

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Aegean Book Reviews: 05 February 2013

Review of Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis & René Treuil (eds), 2011. Archéologie du territoire, de l’ Égée au Sahara. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne.

Maria Pyrgaki

Ο τόμος αυτός περιλαμβάνει τις εισηγήσεις ενός ερευνητικού σεμιναρίου, το οποίο πραγματοποιήθηκε στο Πανεπιστήμιο Paris 1 και ήταν αφιερωμένο στην έννοια του χώρου...

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Aegean Book Reviews: 03 November 2012
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Review of H.W. Haskell et al., 2011. Transport Stirrup Jars of the Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean, Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press.

Vassilis Petrakis

This long awaited monograph presents the results of an extended project focusing on the production and mobility of a specific ceramic container for the transport of liquids in bulk, the coarseware transport stirrup jar (henceforth TSJ), intensely used in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean (c. 14th-12th...

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Dissertations: 04 October 2012

The cemetery of Stamna and the Protogeometric Period in Aetolia/Akarnania (in Greek)

Gioulika Christakopoulou

Σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης είναι η ανάλυση και αξιολόγηση των ανασκαφικών δεδομένων που αφορούν σε μια συγκεκριμένη πολιτισμική ομάδα σε χρόνο και χώρο που...

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