Mount McKinley (AGC 7) - Naval Cruise Book

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ATHENS, GREECE LOCATED JUST FIVE MILES FROM ITS SEAPORT OF PIRAEUS AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE CENTRAL PLAIN OF ATTICA, ATHENS COEBINES A GLORIOUS PAST WITH A BUSTLING PRESENT. MARBLE COLUMNS AND ANCIENT AEPHITHEATERS STAND AS SILENT SENTINELS AMID MODERN BUILDINGS AND BUSY TRAFFIC, MAK- ING TIM STAND STILL IN THE EINDS OF VISITORS AND RESIDENTS ALIKE. INDEED, ATHENS IS TWO CITIES IN ONE...SEPARATED BY ALMOST 3,000 YEARS. THE CITY OF ATHENS, ORIGINALLY BUILT ON THE PLATEAU OF THE SACRED ROCK OF THE ACROPOLIS, WAS INHABITED LONG BEFORE THE 16TH CENTURY, B. C. IT WAS NAMED CECROPIA AFTER ITS KING CECROPS. LATER, THE NAM CECROPIA WAS CHANGED TO ATHENS, THE CITY OF ATHENA, IN HONOR OF TH GODDESS PROTECTRESS OF THE CITY. IN THE 7TH CENTURY, B. C., THE CITY-STATE OF ATHENS NAS ALREADY A SMALL NAVAL POWER. ITS FLEET DEFEATED THE PERSIANS AT SALAMIS IN A80 B. C., A VICTORY WHICH, TOGETHER WITH THE LAND BATTLE AT'NARATHON, ESTABLISHED ATHENS AS THE CENTER OF THE ANCIENT WORLD AND USHERED IN THE NGOLDEN AGE OF GREECE.N IT WAS DURING THIS GOLDEN PERIOD THAT ATHENS GAVE TO THE WORLD ITS GREAT WRITERS, PHILOSOPHERS, ARTISTS, SCIENTISTS AND STATESMEN WHOSE WORKS STILL INSPIRE UNIVERSAL ADMIRATION. ALSO, A GREAT BUILDING PRO- GRAM WAS UNDERTAKEN AT THIS TTME AND SUCH BUILDINGS AS THE PARTHENON AND THE TEMPLE OF APTEROS NIKE CNINGLESS VICTORYD WERE ERECTED.

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AT EPRESUS, 50 MILES SOUTH OF IZMIR, ARE MANY IEPCSING RUINS OF WHAT WAS AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL AND CULTURAL CITY, 2,000 YEARS AGO. HERE WAS LOCATED THE TEMPLE OF DIANA, 0NE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. W--.+I --. WHILE IN IZMIR, EPHESUS AND PERGAMUM WERE OFFERED AS TOURS. BOTH ARE PLACES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST, M NTION D IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. AT PERCANUN, 75 MILES NORTH OF IZHIR, ICU CAN SEE VAST RUINS OF TEMPLES, ALPHITHEATERS, AND PALACES FRCN THE LTH CENTURY E. C. OUR VISIT TO IZHIR FROM APRIL 13-17 WAS MOST IN- FORIALATIVE AS 'IO THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS OF THE TURKISH PEOPLE.

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silk if ALEXANDER THE GREAT EXTENDED THE GLORY OF GREECE DEEP FORMING A POJERFUL HELLENIC EMPIRE. ATHENS, HONEVER, THIS'EXPANSION, PASSING THROUGH ALTERNATING STAGES OF DECLINE AND FINALLY FALLING UNDER ROMAN DOEINATION IN CENTURY, B. C. A SORT OF RENAISSANCE OCCURRED IN THE INTO ASIA, SUFEERED FROM PEOSPEETTY AND THE SECOND SECOND CENTURY, A. D., AND LATER ATHENS FORNED A PART OF TEE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, NHICH CAME UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE ATHENIAN CULTURE. ATHENS FOLLONED THE FATE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE BEING DONINATED BY THE FRANKS IN 120A TO 1270 A. D., AND TNO CENTURIES LATER BY THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. WHEN GREECE THREW OFF THE YOKE OF THE OTTONAN EM- PIRE IN 1833 A. D., ATHENS NAS CHOSEN TO BE THE CAPITAL OF THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED GREEK KINGDOM. AFTER THE SECOND NORLD NAR, GREECE WAGED A BITTER STRUGGLE AGAINST DOMINATION BY THE COMNUNISTS. TO HELP THE ANTI-COMMUNISTS, PRESIDEN TRUMAN SET UP A POINT IV PROGRAM IN l9h8, AND AID NAS ONLY TO GREECE, BUT TURKEY AS WELL. RENDERED NOT T