I MET a traveler from an antique land who said, “We never got to Bassae, because the road was out. It seems they had a hard winter.” They did, of course, but it is my recollection that the road to ...

THE airport bus, packed with passengers, leaned slightly to one side because everybody was trying to see the acropolis. There were murmurs of apprehension. Athens is a good-sized modern city, ...