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Oia village is a popular stop in Santorini, often called one of the world's most beautiful islands.
Photograph by CT Feng, My Shot
"Wherever you set your foot," Cicero wrote about Athens in the first century B.C., "you encounter some memory of the past." • And that holds not just for the storied Greek capital—the Parthenon presiding above its furious daily bustle—but for all of Greece, from ancient Thessaloniki and Mount Olympus in the north to any of the 2,000 islands scattered across the Ionian and Aegean Seas. • Cicero was referring the Athenian golden age, that explosion of arts and architecture, philosophy and drama. • Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—these are only the best known names of the age of Pericles. • Time has done little to change the essential Greece.
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