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Between Paris And Athens: 4. On the rails, there is through service without change, if you take the wagon-lit, by the Orient Express between Paris and Athens. For local hauls, modern Diesel electric trains are often available.
5. A good new highway is now open between Athens and Macedonia. Also there is now a fine broad boulevard to the Attic seaside resorts south of Athens. Other asphalt roads go to Meteora and Nauplion, and there is a new route to Olympia.
My personal experience with TWA, aside from a California—New York flight, has been on the New York Athens-Paris flight mentioned earlier. Its direct line to Athens, a service by which you need not change planes, is via Paris, but I elected to take its southern route in order to stop off in the Azores, and, by a seaplane tangent from Lisbon, to visit Madeira and the Canaries. This tangent I effected by Aquila Airways, which will be further mentioned below. TWA and Aquila are not associated but they maintain a sort of "promotional partnership" to bring these islands to American attention and no islands in any ocean are more deserving of it, for they are strikingly beautiful—and cheap, especially the customs-free Canaries, as I have said.
The democratic ideal of the city-state—that the government's good is inseparable from the citizens' and that both goods can be assured best by citizen participation—seems to liberal democrats a great advance from the autocratic forms of government existing outside Athens. But from the perspective of today the democracy of Athens appears flawed in important respects. About one third of the population were slaves with virtually no rights at all. Furthermore, because Athens had no procedure for conferring citizenship on foreigners who had moved there or on their offspring, another considerable group of residents had no political voice. |
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