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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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Annual meeting of Aegeus

Aegeus is pleased to invite you to the annual meeting which will take place on Wednesday the 23rd of May 2012, at 7 pm at the British School at Athens, Upper House. The work that Aegeus has undertaken during 2011 will be presented, as well as future plans for 2012. A reception will follow in the BSA garden, where a series of other activities will be hosted.

NEW BOOKS: 17 May 2012

The ''Dark Ages'' Revisited. Acts of an international symposium in memory of William D.E. Coulson, University of Thessaly, Volos, 14-17 June 2007 (2 volumes)

Mazarakis Ainian, A. (ed.)

Volos 2011; 12 May 2012

Το Νεολιθικό Διρό. Σπήλαιο Αλεπότρυπα

G.A. Papathanasopoulos (ed.)

Αθήνα 2011

NEW ARTICLES: 19 May 2012

The Trojan War: history or bricolage?

Susan Sherratt

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 53:2 (December 2010): 1-18; 17 May 2012

Deconstructing Ashdoda. Migration, Hybridisation, and the Philistine Identity

Anthony Russell

BABESCH 84 (2009): 1-15

NEWS: 18 May 2012

Αλμυρός. Βυθισμένος προϊστορικός οικισμός

G. Ydraiou, Ταχυδρόμος, 13-05-2012; 17 May 2012

Βραχογραφία 37.000 ετών είναι το αρχαιότερο πορνό του κόσμου

in.gr, 15-05-2012; 15 May 2012

Τα βραβεία της 9ης Διεθνούς Συνάντησης Αρχαιολογικής Ταινίας

Archaeology & Arts, 14-05-2012

NEW ENTRIES

Dissertations: 18 May 2012

Iερά και θρησκευτικές τελετουργίες στην Ανακτορική και Μετανακτορική Μυκηναϊκή περίοδο (Sanctuaries and cult practices in the Palatial and Postpalatial Mycenaean period)

Dimitra Rousioti

This thesis deals with Mycenaean religious activity through the investigation of locales where sanctuaries and confirmed cult practices can be traced in the flourishing period of the palatial political and economic system and the period after its collapse....

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Excavations and Research: 03 May 2012

Two new Linear B tablets from the Late Bronze Age settlement at ‘Kastro-Palaia’ in Volos: from the excavations of Dimitrios R. Theocharis to the results of the recent interdisciplinary investigations (in Greek)

Evangelia Skafida, Jean-Pierre Olivier & Artemis Karnava

Μεταξύ των ετών 1956 και 1961 ο Δημήτριος Θεοχάρης, τότε Έφορος Αρχαιοτήτων Θεσσαλίας και εταίρος της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας, πραγματοποίησε ανασκαφές...

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Wanderings: 14 February 2012

The Archaeological Society at Athens. Archaeologists and excavations 1837-2011 (in Greek)

Nektarios Karadimas

Κατά τη διάρκεια των πανεπιστημιακών μας χρόνων πέρασαν από τα μάτια μας χιλιάδες διαφάνειες κεραμεικής, γλυπτών ή άλλων αντικειμένων, αλλά σπανίως έως σχεδόν...

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Aegean Book Reviews: 16 May 2012

Review of Giorgos Vavouranakis (ed.), The Seascape in Aegean Prehistory, Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, vol. 14, Athens: The Danish Institute at Athens.

John Bennet

Landscape archaeology became prominent within the field of Archaeology in the later 20th century, driven by the rise of systematic surface survey and by a desire to understand humans’ experience of the world (e.g. David & Thomas 2008). ...

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Excavations and Research: 10 February 2012
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Topography, Architecture and Socio-historical Structure in East Crete, during the Bronze Age

Giorgos Vavouranakis

This webpage presents the results of a research project of the Faculty of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The project took place during the years 2003-2005 and its subject was the historical and social importance of the relationship between monuments...

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Aegean Book Reviews: 10 February 2012
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Review of Nanno Marinatos, 2010. Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Judith Weingarten

When I was at Oxford in the late 1970s, even a mild suggestion that the Minoans might have owed a small part of their culture to Egyptian or Near Eastern ‘influences’ was crushed by sardonic cries of “ex oriente lux!”...

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