Here is the full length, beautiful, Aegean Airlines Lesvos Video for you to enjoy.
It will take less than 12 minutes to fall in love with Lesvos. Continue reading
Here is the full length, beautiful, Aegean Airlines Lesvos Video for you to enjoy.
It will take less than 12 minutes to fall in love with Lesvos. Continue reading
Dare to do something different on your holiday and come Cycling around Lesvos! Continue reading
It’s only a very short piece but Aegean Airlines feature Lesvos in their “Closer to Greece” series this month. The photographs are beautiful.
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In Aegean business lounges and aircraft you can taste local Lesvos products such as marmalades, wine, brandy and of course the famous ouzo.
The early Christian Basilica of Halinados is only 4.5 km from Agia Paraskevi and is one of a number of ancient sites in the area. Like so many of the ancient sites on Lesvos, it is to be found along a dirt road and has almost no signs to get you there. Our map at the bottom of the page should give you a little help finding it. Continue reading
The BBC spelling of Lesvos as Lesbos is a little embarrassing but I have presented the programme title and review as written by the BBC. Please accept my apologies.
With a PhD in Papyrology, Margaret Mountford (The Apprentice) goes in search of the truth behind the legend of Sappho, the most controversial writer of the ancient world and the first authentic woman’s voice in western history.
Watch the full program on YouTube here.
A lost papyrus inspires Margaret to go on a journey of exploration. From the fragmentary documents, ruined temple architecture and surviving oriental jewellery, we conjure the real world of the woman, whose erotic writings gave us the words ‘sapphic’ and ‘lesbian’, after the island of Lesbos the place of her birth.
Was Sappho indeed the first lesbian – a priestess, prostitute, stern schoolmistress or aristocratic lady of leisure, as readers over the centuries have variously alleged? Margaret looks at how each generation’s view of the archetypal liberated woman of letters tells us as much about us and our fears and concerns as it does about her.
Commissioned by Greg Sanderson, BBC Commissioning Editor, Arts, Music & Events, the 1×60 film is produced by Maya Vision International’s Sally Thomas and directed by Jack MacInnes.
Visit the BBC website Sappho: Love And Life On Lesbos