Rick Steves' Greece: Athens & the Peloponnese amazon.com
Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis - By Matthew Lynn amazon.com
Greece's 'Odious' Debt: The Looting of the Hellenic Republic by the Euro, the Political Elite and the Investment Community - By Jason Manolopoulos amazon.com
Understanding the Crisis in Greece: From Boom to Bust - By Theodore Pelagidis amazon.com
The Imminent Crisis: Greek Debt and the Collapse of the European Monetary Union amazon.com
Eyewitness Greece - Athens and the Mainland - 352 Pages
Financial markets and economic growth in Greece, 1986-1999 [An article from: Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money]
Athens Demographics:
The population count for Athens was 10,964,020 in 2001. According to eurostat, in 2008 Greece had a total estimated population of 11,262,000. Of this, some 695,979 are estimated to be non-Greek.
Online Resources Athens Greece Now
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LINKS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING ABOUT ATHENS
Athens Survival Guide - There's nothing like this site, it is full of photos and the personal experiences of Matt Barrett who loves Greece. He went to the same school as I did in Athens and his nostalgia and affection for the land is palpable. But he also gives clear-headed information for the tourist coming to Greece for the first (or tenth) time.
NEWS
Living in Greece Blog (this is probably the most important english language "Greece" blog there is.)
Athen News
Perennial english language Athens paper online with classifieds, etc.
Greek news Online
From out of Astoria New York, includes wire news reporting
Greece Topix
Updated regularly with Greek news. Their discussion forum is mostly an ongoing war between macodonian/albanian/greek
partisans.
INFORMATION
US Embassy Athens
Downtown Athens.
American Hellenic Institute
Greek-American advocacy group concerned with USA-Greece relations
GREEK LANGUAGE
A Greek-English Lexicon (1883)
Free download of the classic Greek and English Lexicon by George Henry Liddle
LIVE CAM VIEWS
pireas.org looks out at Athens from across the Pireas bay twenty-four hours a day. Weather station with up to the minute reporting.
nifada.org Has an excellent view of about half of Athens all the way to Pireas - page also has weather reports.
Akropolis Live View 24/7 view looking up at the walls and temple mount - Hellenic Foundation
Adrian's Gate live cam of the traffic flying by 24/7 - Hellenic Foundation
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