The postwar village · Ancient Lerna · Village life
Forty people on the dig, the staff living in Myloi
1954 Proven
In 1954 the team photographed itself: some forty people, archaeologists and workmen, many of them probably from the village. That season the staff lodged in Myloi, among them the field architect Lloyd Cotsen and the young archaeologist Martha Heath (later Wiencke).
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Pictures
The staff who worked on the excavation at Lerna with the American School of Classical Studies in 1954: some forty people, standing and kneeling on bare ground below the trees and the hill. George Kondis
Sources
- ASCSA, typed report "1954 Excavations ASCSA" Open (opens in a new tab)
- ASCSA Archives, Martha Heath Wiencke Papers (MHW 100) and Lloyd E. Cotsen Papers, Princeton (COTSEN6)
Also in this period
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1950–1969
Souvlaki passed up to the train windows
Because so many trains stopped at the junction of Myloi, the village became known for souvlaki. Sellers walked along the carriages with trays of skewers and passed them up to passengers at the open windows; a magazine…
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1950s
A rural doctor for three years
Evangelos Koligliatis, born in Ira near Argos in 1922, served three years as rural doctor in Myloi in the 1950s, after two years in Filiates (Thesprotia). He later became a physician at the hospital of Argos.
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1950s
A birth among the sheepfolds above Kalamaki
In an interview recorded in 1988, the old midwife of Kiveri remembered a birth "above Kalamaki, up at the sheepfolds". Afterwards the husband had to walk to the road and on to Myloi to call the doctor: there were…
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7 April 1951
Census 1951: Kalamaki suddenly has 206 people
After the war and the civil war the community of Myloi has 639 inhabitants: 433 in Myloi and 206 in Kalamaki, four times as many as in 1940. The cause is not known; possibly families settled there temporarily, or the…