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(a)
(b)
Figure 7.5
(a) Castle village of Anavatos, Chios island, Greece, and (b) view from Zagorochoria
village, NW Pindos (photographs by Theano S. Terkenli)
flourish
Most importantly, the mountains are seen as the only place where the
otherwise incurable taint of slavery can be healed
...
If the highlands signify free-
dom, the good life, anarchy and glory, the lowlands stand for slavery, grinding
labour, poverty and humiliation - associations familiar to other cultures than just
the Greek' (Stathatos, 1996, p. 22).
In contrast, in current times of prosperity, Mediterranean mountains have come
to constitute a large proportion of the EU's 'Less Favoured Areas' in terms of
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