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George E. Mylonas
Γεώργιος Μυλωνάς
A middle-aged man in a suit, with receding hair and a neat moustache
Mylonas in 1961
Born Georgios Mylonas
December 21 [O.S. December 9] , 1898
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
Died April 15, 1988 (aged 89)
Athens, Greece
Resting place Mykines, Greece
Occupation Classical archaeologist
Known for Excavations, including Grave Circle B at Mycenae
Spouse Lena Papazoglou (m. 1925)
Children 4, including Ione Mylonas Shear
Awards
Order of George I (Commander)
Royal Order of the Phoenix (Grand Commander)
Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America
Academic background
Education
International College of Smyrna
University of Athens
Johns Hopkins University
Thesis Η νεολιθική εποχή εν Ελλάδι [The Neolithic Period in Greece] (1928)
Academic work
Institutions
University of Chicago
University of Illinois
Washington University in St. Louis
Notable students
Michael Cosmopoulos
Elizabeth Schofield
Military career
Allegiance Kingdom of Greece
Years of service 1919–1923
Wars Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)
George Emmanuel Mylonas (Greek: Γεώργιος Μυλωνάς, romanized: Georgios Mylonas,
Greek pronunciation: [/ʝe'oɾʝios milo'nas/], ye-OR-yios mee-loh-NAS; December 21
[O.S. December 9] 1898 – April 15, 1988)[a] was a Greek archaeologist of ancient
Greece and of Aegean prehistory. He excavated widely, particularly at Olynthus,
Eleusis and Mycenae, where he made the first archaeological study and publication
of Grave Circle B, the earliest known monumentalized burials at the site.

Mylonas was born in Smyrna, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and received an elite
education. He enrolled in 1919 at the University of Athens to study classics,
joined the Greek Army, and fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922. He
witnessed the destruction of Smyrna in September 1922, and was subsequently taken
prisoner; he was recaptured after a brief escape, but was released in 1923 after
bribing his captors with money sent by his American contacts.

In 1924, Mylonas began working for the American School of Classical Studies at
Athens, with which he retained a lifelong association. He became its first bursar
the following year, and took part in excavations at Corinth, Nemea, and Olynthus
under its auspices. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Athens in
1927, he moved to Johns Hopkins University in the United States to study under
David Moore Robinson, his excavation director from Olynthus. He subsequently taught
at the University of Chicago. After a brief return to Greece, during which he
taught at a gymnasium and made his first excavations at Eleusis, he was hired by
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1931, before moving to Washington
University in St. Louis in 1933, where he remained until returning permanently to
Greece in 1969. There, he was prominent in the Archaeological Society of Athens and
in efforts to conserve the monuments of the Acropolis of Athens.

Mylonas's excavation work included the sites of Pylos, Artemision, Mekyberna,

Polystylos and Aspropotamos. Along with John Papadimitriou, he was given
responsibility for the excavation of Mycenae's Grave Circle B in the early 1950s,
and from 1957 until 1985 excavated on the citadel of the site. His excavations
helped to establish the chronological relationships between Mycenae's structures,
which had been excavated piecemeal over the preceding century, and to determine the
religious function of the site's Cult Center, to which he gave its name. He was
awarded the Order of George I, the Royal Order of the Phoenix and the Gold Medal of
the Archaeological Institute of America, of which he was the first foreign-born
president. His work at Mycenae has been credited with bringing coherence to the
previously scattered and sporadically published record of excavation at the site.
At the same time, his belief that ancient Greek mythical traditions, particularly
concerning the Trojan War and the Eleusinian Mysteries, could be verified by
archaeological excavation was controversial in his day and has generally been
discredited since.

Early life
George Emmanuel Mylonas was born on December 21, [O.S. December 9] 1898, to a
Greek-speaking family in Smyrna in Ionia, then part of the Ottoman Empire.[2]
According to a 1958 profile, he first took an interest in archaeology at the age of
eight, when his father's gardener unearthed an ancient burial on the family
property.[3] Mylonas attended Smyrna's Evangelical School, considered the most
important Greek school in the city, until 1915,[4] and subsequently graduated with
a bachelor's degree from the American-run International College of Smyrna in 1918.
[5] He entered the University of Athens in 1919, joining the second year of its
course in classics.[6] He was a classmate of John Papadimitriou, later an
archaeologist with the Greek Archaeological Service, and was taught by Christos
Tsountas, who had excavated at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae and at prehistoric
sites throughout Greece.[7]

During the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, Mylonas joined the Greek Army and was
deployed to Turkey as part of the Army of Asia Minor.[8] He was present at the
destruction of Smyrna by the Turks in September 1922.[9] Alexander MacLachlan, a
witness to the city's destruction, recalled seeing Mylonas deliver a Christian
service in Greek on the morning of Sunday, September 10 [O.S. August 28], following
an English-language service for refugees who had sheltered in the chapel of the
International College.[10] While fleeing from Smyrna towards Samos, Mylonas was
captured and imprisoned at Manisa and Smyrna;[11] he was tortured during his
captivity and almost killed.[8] After escaping from the camp at Smyrna in early
March 1923, he obtained passage on a French merchant ship, whose crew handed him
back to the Turks.[11] He was helped to survive by American friends, his former
teachers at the International College,[12] who lent him money to pay bribes and
secure his release.[13]

Early archaeological career

A slightly balding white man in a formal suit, seated, his head resting on his left
hand
David Moore Robinson, Mylonas's early mentor and lifelong friend, photographed in
1909
After his release, Mylonas returned to Athens, arriving in April 1923.[11]
According to Michael Cosmopoulos, who later studied under Mylonas, he may have
suffered from post-traumatic stress in the early years after his release.[14] In
the second half of 1924,[7] he was hired as a translator at the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), one of Greece's foreign schools of
archaeology.[15] The ASCSA had assisted in the evacuation and resettlement of Greek
refugees from Ionia and employed many of them in the construction of its Gennadius
Library, conducted under the architect W. Stuart Thompson between September 1923
and 1925.[16] According to Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, later the archivist of the
ASCSA, Mylonas may have been introduced to the school by Hazel Dorothy Hansen, an
American archaeologist who probably studied with Mylonas at Athens.[7] He acted as
an interpreter for Thompson and wrote his own doctoral dissertation, The Neolithic
Period in Greece, in his free time.[17] From July 1, 1925, he worked part-time as
the ASCSA's first bursar; he was also seconded as an assistant to Gilbert Campbell
Scoggins, the librarian of the Gennadius.[18]

Mylonas worked on the excavations of Corinth under the ASCSA's director Bert Hodge
Hill, who led them until 1926;[19] between 1923 and 1928, he worked with Carl
Blegen, Hill's lifelong friend who also served as assistant and acting director of
the ASCSA, at the sites of Nemea and Aghiorghitika.[20] Mylonas taught at the
University of Athens,[21] from which he received his Ph.D. summa cum laude in 1927.
[22] In 1928, he resigned from his bursary post at the ASCSA and emigrated to the
United States to study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore under David Moore
Robinson, the excavator of the classical site of Olynthus in the Chalkidiki region
of northern Greece.[23] He was with Robinson as a representative of the ASCSA, in
whose name the dig was conducted, for the Olynthus excavation season of February 17
to June 2, 1928.[24]

Academic career in the United States

Mylonas was awarded his second Ph.D. by Johns Hopkins in 1928; his dissertation was
published as the first volume in the series presenting the results of the Olynthus
excavations.[15] In the same year, he took a temporary teaching job at the
University of Chicago, which allowed him to remain in the US until 1930.[11] On his
return to Greece, he directed the excavations of the Mycenaean site of Aghios
Kosmas in Attica.[2] The project, under the auspices of the Archaeological Service,
[25] began in 1930 and continued in 1931.[2] He also made a study of the topography
of Attica and taught part-time at the Ioannis Metaxas gymnasium, a high school.[11]
From 1930, he excavated at Eleusis alongside the Greek archaeologist Konstantinos
Kouroniotis [el], who tasked him with uncovering the Bronze Age remains towards the
southwestern part of the site and with excavating under the building considered to
have been the Telesterion, the focal point of the Eleusinian Mysteries.[26] Mylonas
was at Olynthus with Robinson for the 1931 excavation season,[27] having been sent
by the ASCSA in response to the school's dissatisfaction with Robinson's excavation
methods.[28] Mylonas returned to the United States later in 1931: he was hired by
William Abbott Oldfather, the dean of the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, as a temporary assistant professor on an annual salary of $2,200
(equivalent to $40,126 in 2023).[29] Mylonas excavated at Olynthus in 1932 and
1933,[2] and at Eleusis each year from 1932 until 1934.[2]

Wide shot; several open graves can be seen with the citadel of Mycenae behind
Grave Circle B at Mycenae, excavated by Mylonas and Papadimitriou in 1952–1953
In 1933, Mylonas was hired on a permanent basis at Washington University in St.
Louis as an assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology.
[30] Robinson had previously tried to maneuver another of his students, James
Walter Graham, into the position. Mylonas wrote to Robinson, crediting him with
securing him the position through his influence and contacts.[27] Mylonas became a
naturalized US citizen in 1937, though spent most of his time in Greece.[27] By
1938, he had been promoted to full professor.[31] He served on the ASCSA's managing
committee between 1937 and 1939,[32] returned to Olynthus as co-director of the
excavation with Robinson in March–June 1938,[33] and made exploratory excavations
at Mekyberna – the port of Olynthus – Polystylos and Aspropotamos, all in Greek
Macedonia, in the same year.[2]

Mylonas became chair of Washington's Department of Art History and Archaeology in

1939.[34] He returned briefly to the University of Illinois for the 1939–1940
academic year, before resuming his post at Washington.[11] During World War II, he
orchestrated the founding of the Greek War Relief Association, a charity which
raised money to alleviate poverty in Greece.[35] He also delivered lessons to
officers of the United States Army on the Eastern Mediterranean, and wrote An
Introduction to the History of the Balkan States, which aimed to make a historical
case against the legitimacy of the annexation of Greek Macedonia by Bulgaria and
was published in 1946.[2] He returned to the ASCSA's managing committee in the same
year.[36]

The Greek government suspended all archaeological investigation in the country

after the war, a state of affairs which continued until 1952.[37][b] Mylonas spent
the 1951–1952 academic year on a Fulbright scholarship, teaching at the National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens (as the University of Athens had been
renamed).[39] Simultaneously, he served as an annual professor at the ASCSA;[40]
following the suggestion of the chairman, Charles Morgan, that a vice-chairman be
appointed in case he was called for military service, Mylonas was given the
position.[41] Mylonas also led the school's 1951–1952 "Summer Session" for visiting
archaeology students.[42]

Once the Greek ban on excavation was lifted, Mylonas entered what Vogeikoff-Brogan
calls "an excavation frenzy", working at Pylos under Blegen,[37] at Aghios Kosmas,
[2] and at Eleusis in the same season.[37] On December 22, 1951, he visited, along
with John Papadimitriou, what would become known as Grave Circle B at Mycenae,[43]
which had been discovered that November by the ephor Seraphim Charitonidis during
restoration of the nearby Tomb of Clytemnestra.[44] Mylonas and Papadimitriou
cleared the area of the grave circle between January 5 and 11 the following year,
funded by Washington University. Papadimitriou was appointed to lead the
excavation, and himself organized a committee of archaeologists, consisting of
Mylonas, Charitonidis, Antonios Keramopoulos and Spyridon Marinatos, to oversee the
work. The first season of excavation began on July 3 and continued until October
10,[45] by which point seven tombs had been fully uncovered.[46] That September,
Mylonas also directed a return excavation of the underwater shipwreck first
discovered at Artemision in 1926.[47] He co-directed the second season at Grave
Circle B, which ran from July 31 to the first third of October 1953, with
Papadimitriou; in this season, a further eleven tombs were excavated.[48] The two
returned to co-direct the third and final season of excavation, which Mylonas
considered the most productive, between July 8 and September 6, 1954: this time,
six more tombs were uncovered, leaving the central area of the grave circle fully
excavated, and remains of Middle Helladic buildings in the eastern area of the site
were investigated.[49]

Ancient Greek vase-painting of the cyclops Polyphemus being blinding by several

men, who drive a wooden stake into his single eye.
The "Eleusis Amphora", discovered by Mylonas in 1954, showing the blinding of
Polyphemus
Between 1952 and 1957, Mylonas co-directed the excavations at Eleusis with John
Travlos:[50] in 1954, his work in the Western Cemetery uncovered the Eleusis
Amphora, considered among the finest examples of proto-Attic art.[51] From 1957
until 1985, he led excavations on the citadel of Mycenae.[52] He re-excavated most
of the acropolis of the site: Tsountas had cleared it in the late nineteenth
century, but died before publishing the results of his work.[53] Much of Mylonas's
work on the acropolis concerned the establishment of a chronological sequence for
its various constructions, particularly the palace and the fortifications
surrounding it; he traced the initial fortification of the site to the fourteenth
century BCE, with further development throughout the thirteenth century BCE.[54] He
excavated areas of settlement to the north and west of the citadel,[55] including
(between 1962 and 1964) a section which he named the "House M Quarter".[56] He also
investigated the site's Cult Center,[55] to which he gave its modern name on the
grounds of his interpretation of the structure as a focus for religious ritual.[57]
Mylonas held a Fulbright Professorship at Athens in 1954,[58] and spent periods
throughout the 1950s at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
[35] His M.A. students in the late 1950s included the Anglo-American archaeologist
Elizabeth Schofield, later known for her work at Knossos, at Lefkandi and on the
island of Kea.[59] He served as president of the Archaeological Institute of
America between 1957 and 1960,[21] becoming the first foreign-born person to hold
the post,[60] and held a visiting professorship at the ASCSA in 1963–1964, during
which he conducted a tour of Crete and offered a course in Mycenaean civilization.
[61] In 1964, he stepped down as department chair at Washington; he was made the
inaugural Rosa May Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in 1965.[62]

Return to Greece and later life

A marble tomb in a churchyard, with a prominent Christian cross decoration
Mylonas's tomb at Mykines
Mylonas retired from Washington in 1969 and returned to Greece.[27] Between 1969
and 1971, he served on the council of the Archaeological Society of Athens, a
learned society with a prominent role in the excavation and conservation of
archaeological heritage; he was its vice president from 1978 to 1979, and its
secretary general from 1979 until 1986.[11] Between 1978 and 1986, he served as
chairman of the Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments,[63] an
organization of archaeologists, architects, engineers and other specialists created
by the Greek Ministry of Culture to oversee restorations on the Acropolis.[64]

Mylonas appeared in Michael Wood's televised series, In Search of the Trojan War,
in 1985. In an interview conducted at the citadel of Mycenae, Mylonas spoke of
coming to the site by night to converse with the mythical king Agamemnon.[65] He
once said that the task of the archaeologist was to "infer from withered flowers
the hour of their bloom".[66] A Festschrift in his honor was published in four
volumes by the Archaeological Society between 1986 and 1990.[67] He died in Athens
on April 15, 1988, two weeks after having a heart attack at his home.[68][c] He was
buried at Mykines, the modern village adjacent to the site of Mycenae.[34]

Personal life
Mylonas met Lena Papazoglou, another Greek refugee from Ionia, shortly after his
return to Greece in 1923; the couple married in 1925.[15] Mylonas remained a friend
of Robinson, his former doctoral advisor, throughout his life; upon his death in
1958, Robinson left Mylonas a Greek vase from his collection and $20,000
(equivalent to $211,211 in 2023) towards his research.[27] According to the
Canadian archaeologist Mary Ross Ellingson, who excavated with Mylonas at Olynthus,
he was formal and aloof in his manners, preferring to address fellow excavation
staff by their surnames and as "Mr." or "Miss".[70]

Mylonas and Lena had a son, Alexander, shortly after their marriage;[71] Alexander
died in a car accident in 1959.[72] They also had three daughters,[21] one of whom,
Ione Mylonas Shear (born in 1936), became an archaeologist,[73] and frequently
assisted her father in his excavations at Mycenae.[74] Another daughter, Eunice,
born in 1934,[75] married the artist and teacher Robert Beverly Hale.[76] Lena
Mylonas died in 1993.[37]

Honors, legacy and assessment

Ruins of a large ancient Greek building, almost all destroyed: marble walls and
foundations can be seen, and a small Christian chapel in the background.
The ruins at Eleusis of the building identified by Mylonas as the Telesterion, the
focal centre of the Eleusinian Mysteries
Mylonas was a prolific writer and lecturer, publishing around 150 articles in
academic journals and delivering over 1000 public lectures.[77] At Mycenae, his
excavations uncovered tombs and structures outside the citadel and established the
function of the Cult Center within it. His investigations of the citadel's
fortifications established their date, while his excavations of the approach-routes
to the palace revealed the full extent of the structure. Spyros Iakovidis [el], who
succeeded Mylonas as director of the excavation of Mycenae, credits him with
connecting the work of Tsountas, which was prolific but largely unpublished, with
that of Alan Wace, who excavated various areas of the site throughout the first
half of the twentieth century.[78] The archaeologist Diamantis Panagiotopoulos has
called Mylonas's 1927 dissertation the first publication to systematically
synthesize the Neolithic material from the Greek mainland and the island of Crete.
[60]

Vogeikoff-Brogan has called Mylonas a pioneer in archaeological fundraising;

without the large institutional budgets of colleagues like Blegen, Mylonas
cultivated relationships with wealthy members of St. Louis society, encouraged his
financial supporters to visit and participate in his excavations, and reported his
work energetically in the St. Louis local press. Between 1963 and his retirement in
1969, he led archaeological cruises to Greece, whose ticket price included a
donation to his excavation work.[37] During his time at Washington University,
Mylonas established the philanthropic Mycenaean Foundation with support from
American friends and students. The foundation opened an archaeologists' hostel,
known as McCarthy House, and a cultural center and medical clinic, known as the
Mycenaean Melathron, in the village of Mykines in 1969.[79] He also played a role
in the establishment of a new museum at the archaeological site of Mycenae.[78] A
scholarship for undergraduate humanities majors at Washington University is named
in Mylonas's honor.[80] His personal scrapbooks are held by the archive of the
American School of Classical Studies in Athens.[37]

Mylonas believed in the essential historicity of the Greek mythical tradition; in

his work on Mycenae, he attempted to establish chronological dates for the reign of
Agamemnon and the Trojan War.[81] At Eleusis, he claimed to have followed the
directions of the ancient geographer Pausanias and to have discovered the tombs of
the mythical Seven against Thebes.[82] More recent study has suggested that the
tradition that the Seven were buried at Eleusis may significantly postdate the
supposed date of their existence,[83] and most modern scholars reject the
suggestion that the myths of Agamemnon and Troy can be connected to any
archaeological material.[84] A contemporary review of his 1966 book, Mycenae and
the Mycenaean Age, described his practice of using the mythological tradition to
reconstruct historical events as "a dangerous procedure at best".[85] Similarly,
Mylonas's contention that he had discovered a Bronze Age temple to the goddess
Demeter at Eleusis, following the narrative of the ancient Homeric Hymn to Demeter
by which the goddess ordered the construction of her first temple at the site, is
now considered unsupported by the available evidence.[86]

Mylonas was awarded honorary degrees by Washington University, the University of

Thessaloniki, Ohio State University and Southern Illinois University.[87] He
received two Guggenheim Fellowships, the first in 1955 and the second in 1968.[88]
In 1955, he was made a Commander of the Order of George I by King Paul of Greece;
[21] he also became a Grand Commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix.[78] He was
awarded the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished
Archaeological Achievement in 1970.[34] He was also made an honorary citizen of
Eleusis and Mycenae, and presented with a golden key to the city of Washington,
D.C.[78] He became a member of the Academy of Athens, Greece's national academy, in
1970,[89] and served as its president in 1980.[78] He was elected an honorary
fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1978,[90] and was also a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[91]

Published works
As author
Mylonas, George E. (1928). Η νεολιθική εποχή εν Ελλάδι [The Neolithic Period in
Greece] (Ph.D.) (in Greek). University of Athens – via Hathi Trust.
— (1940). "Athens and Minoan Crete". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 51:
11–36. JSTOR 45134343.
— (1942). The Hymn to Demeter and Her Sanctuary at Eleusis. Washington Universities
Studies. St. Louis: Washington University. OCLC 217621407.
— (1947) [1946]. The Balkan States: An Introduction to Their History. Washington,
D.C.: Public Affairs Press. hdl:2027/mdp.39015014645280.
— (1947). "Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries". The Classical Journal. 43 (3):
130–146. JSTOR 3293727.
— (December 1954). "Mycenae, City of Agamemnon". Scientific American. 191 (6): 72–
79. Bibcode:1954SciAm.191f..72M. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1254-72. JSTOR
24943710.
— (June 1955). "Archaeology in Greece: An International Heritage". The Atlantic.
Retrieved January 13, 2024.
— (1957). Ancient Mycenae: The Capital City of Agamemnon. Princeton: Princeton
University Press. OCLC 459757596.
— (1959). Aghios Kosmas: An Early Bronze Age Settlement and Cemetery in Attica.
Appendix by John Lawrence Angel. London: Oxford University Press. OCLC 499843.
— (1961). Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Princeton: Princeton University
Press. ISBN 9780691648873.
— (1966). Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
ISBN 9780691035239.
— (1972). Ὁ ταφικὸς Κύκλος Β τῶν Μυκηνῶν [Grave Circle B at Mycenae] (PDF) (in
Greek). Vol. 1. Athens: Archaeological Society of Athens. OCLC 563477782.
— (1973). Ὁ ταφικὸς Κύκλος Β τῶν Μυκηνῶν [Grave Circle B at Mycenae] (PDF) (in
Greek). Vol. 2. Athens: Archaeological Society of Athens. OCLC 563477782.
— (1975). Τὸ δυτικὸν νεκροταφεῖον τῆς Ἐλευσῖνος [The Western Cemetery at Eleusis]
(PDF) (in Greek). Vol. 1. Athens: Archaeological Society of Athens. OCLC
1229191075.
— (1975). Τὸ δυτικὸν νεκροταφεῖον τῆς Ἐλευσῖνος [The Western Cemetery at Eleusis]
(PDF) (in Greek). Vol. 2. Athens: Archaeological Society of Athens. OCLC
1229191075.
— (1980). Ἁναστυλώτικαι ἐργασίαι εἰς τὴν Ακρόπολιν [Restoration Works on the
Acropolis]. Πρακτικὰ τῆς Ἀκαδημίας Ἀθηνῶν [Proceedings of the Academy of Athens]
(in Greek). 55 (2): 26–58. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
— (1981). Mycenae: A Guide to Its Ruins and Its History. Athens: Ekdotike Athenon.
OCLC 8005169.
— (1983). Mycenae Rich in Gold. Athens: Ekdotike Athenon. OCLC 11201724.
As editor
Mylonas, George E.; Raymond, Doris, eds. (1951–1953). Studies Presented to David
Moore Robinson on His Seventieth Birthday. St. Louis, MO: Washington University.
OCLC 427342596.
Footnotes
Explanatory notes
Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1923; February 28 [O.S. February 15] was
followed by March 1.[1]
The Greek Civil War lasted from 1944 until 1949; 1952 was the year that Greece
adopted its post-war constitution.[38]
The archaeological historian Vasileios Petrakos [el] attributes Mylonas's heart
attack to unfounded accusations of malpractice made against him in connection with
the construction of a new museum at Mycenae.[69]
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Iakovidis 1989, p. 235.
Nagel 1958, p. 5.
Cosmopoulos 2013, p. 11. For the Evangelical School, see Georgiadou 2004, p. 141.
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Excavations, Dies". The New York Times. May 2, 1988. Section D, p. 14. Retrieved
January 9, 2024.
Kaiser 2023, p. 46; Πρόσωπα της Εταιρείας: Mυλωνάς Γεώργιος [Faces of the Society:
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Πρόσωπα της Εταιρείας: Mυλωνάς Γεώργιος [Faces of the Society: Mylonas, George].
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