The postwar village · Water and mills · Village life
Spyros Meletzis photographs the spring of Amymone
3 February 1967 Proven
The magazine ΑΛΦΑ of 3 February 1967 carried a long report on the Argolid, "Η αρχόντισσα του Αργολικού", with text by Nikos Karantinos and photographs by Spyros Meletzis. Among them is the spring of Amymone at Myloi; the text also speaks of irrigation and of Anavalos, which "is waiting".
- Where
- Springs of Lerna
- Threads
- Water and mills, Village life
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- ΑΛΦΑ nr. 60, 3 February 1967, pp. 27–33, Digital Library of the Hellenic Parliament
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