Archaeological Tales

Books

Welcome to the worlds of the Archaeological Tales, where science, storytelling and music narrate and revive stories of a distant past.

THE SECRET OF ZEPHYRUS

The Secret of Zephyrus takes place in the ancient city of Philippoi, one of the most important ancient cities of Eastern Macedonia. Two siblings, Zephyrus and Alkmene, grow up in the streets of the market and wonder through the public and private buildings, the temples and the theatre of Philippoi.

THE PROMISE OF THE WHITE GODDESS

Enemies, who emerge from the fumes of Messene’s enraged land, define the fate of a scribe and his daughter as well as of a brave warrior and his gifted son.

THE JOURNAL OF THE STARS

The Journal of the Stars unravels the mystery of one of the most famous ancient shipwrecks, the shipwreck of Antikythera and its invaluable cargo, containing the most sophisticated mechanism of the ancient world, the Antikythera Mechanism.

THE DREAM OF NIKIAS AND MELITE

This archaeological tale is based on the “Pythia”, or otherwise the contests that begun to be organized at Delphi in the 6th century B.C. and were repeated every four years, without ever coinciding with the year of the Olympic games.

KYMOTHOI’S JOURNEY

This archeological tale takes place on the island of Naxos. Ιt describes the Mycenaean city of Grotta, which flourished around 1400-1200 B.C. A big part of the city remains nowadays under the sea but strong maritime currents make almost impossible any archaeological excavation.

THE GRIFFIN’S PROPHECY

On the spring of 1.200 B.C. a great symposium at Nestor’s Palace in Pylos narrates the story of a brave warrior and a priestess. This archaeological story was inspired by two fresco fragments, found at the palace of Nestor in 1939.

THE VOICE OF DREAMS

A dream leads the steps of the patient Apellas from Asia Minor’s distant Idriada to the Asklepeion of Epidaurus to heal, reviving at the same time one of the greatest sanatoriums of antiquity through a story written on a stele.

THE SPINNING TOPS OF TIME

Small spinning tops become the means for a girl to travel in time, as she searches for her precious friend, and get acquainted with ancient Greek toys, some of which are still carved on contemporary Greeks’ childhood.

Dr. Evy Papadopoulou is an archaeologist, with a PhD on Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of Ioannina, Greece. From 1996 onwards she has been an active member at excavations in Patras, Olynthus of Halkidiki, Dodoni, Ithaca and Jordan.

She wishes to enhance cultural storytelling through the Archaeological Tales with ultimate aim the transmission of the archaeological knowledge and the Ancient Greek Civilization to the public.