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A Long History |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2003 |
| Size: 523 Words, 3,379 Characters |
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Despite a decline from its eminence during the Cycladic period, Syros maintained an orderly social structure and was an active center of trade throughout the Classic and Hellenistic eras. Homer refers to Syrii (Syra) as ruled by Ktissios Ormenides, the father of the shepherd narrator of the legend of Ulysses. Syros' port was important t...
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... War II its economic and social life sank. In 1941 famine hit the island. Occupied by the Nazis, Syros suffered bombardment. Arguably, no other rural Greek setting endured so much.
Today, though Syros has no prospect of returning to its past glories, its socioeconomic position has recovered somewhat, and the standard of living compares reasonably with that of the rest of Greece.
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