This document pays tribute to the etwinning partnership between Liceo M.T. Cicerone and Theodoropouls High School in Chania, Greece. It highlights how the partnership has opened up new friends, teachers, subjects, ideas and characters for the students. It discusses the deep historical and linguistic links between Italy and Greece, noting they share an ancient cultural inheritance from the Indo-European linguistic group. The partnership is seen as part of a beautiful story that stretches from Greek myth to the origins of Rome and a united Europe around the Mediterranean Sea.

1. Liceo M.T. Cicerone presents
A tribute to our etwinning
partners, the headmaster, the
teachers and the students of
Theodoropouls High school,
Chania

2. "Núv δ' ουδὲν διαθὲρομεν ηὣν ἐν
ηῷ πελαγει πλεονηων' γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι
πλὲουζι μὲν ἀεὶ,ηὸ δὲ
πεπλευζμὲν οὐδὲν οἰκειρὸηερον
ηοῦ ἀπλεὺζηου καηαλεὶπουζιν"
Ξενοθών

3. …“Now we are carried as the
sailors that, however they furrow
the sea, they don’t possess the
stretch that they leave behind
more than they possess the
stretch that they have to sail
yet”…
XENOPHON

7. A BOOK THE INTERNET
A SONG A FILM
A DREAM
A HOPE

8. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL
DISCOVERY OF
NEW NEW
FRIENDS! TEACHERS
NEW
NEW
SUBJECTS THOUGHTS
NEW IDEAS NEW
CHARACTERS

11. THEY ARE UNITED
BY A DEEP
AND ANCIENT
LINK

12. BUT WE HAVE ALSO THE SAME ANCIENT
BLOOD…
OUR LANGUAGES ARE SISTERS
BECAUSE IN THE 12TH AND IN THE 8-7TH B.C.
THEY DERIVE
GREEKS CAME LINGUISTIC GROUP: ITALY
FROM THE SAME TO SOUTHERN
THE INDO EUROPEAN
THEY FOUNDED “MAGNA GRECIA”

16. BUT…
WHY A PARTNERSHIP WITH CRETE
ISLAND?
…BECAUSE EVERYTHING HAS BEGUN
THERE…
… IT’S A LONG AND
BEAUTIFUL STORY…

17. FROM THE MYTH
TO HISTORY
INHERITANCE
OF GREEK
CULTURE
THE MYTH OF
EUROPE
ROME PARTNERSHIP WITH CRETE
THE ETERNAL
CITY WHOSE
ORIGINS ARE UNITED
ROOTED IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA EUROPE
GREEK MYTH
MARENOSTRUM
PARTNERSHIP
Liceo Cicerone
Theodoropoulous
high school

19. “Pierre's attention was
suddenly drawn by
the two Greek
euros, upon which
the history of Europe,
in accordance with
the legend, is
impressed.”
( From our winner novel
“L'altra Faccia della
Moneta” Italian National
Price 2010 )

20. λογος
LOVE FOR
BEAUTY,
HARMONY,
PERFECTION

21. “Il sacro vate,
placando quelle afflitte alme con
il canto,
i prenci argivi eternerà per
quante
abbraccia terre il grande padre
Oceano”
( Foscolo : I sepolcri)

22. “Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui
primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus
Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et
terris iactatus et alto vi superum,
saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram,
multa quoque et bello passus, dum
conderet urbem inferretque deos Latio;
genus unde Latinum Albanique patres
atque altae moenia Romae “
(Virgilius)

24. “Il Mediterraneo non esiste, è
solo un mare interiore che
ciascuno di noi deve navigare
ogni giorno. Le sue acque
limpide sono il fondo azzurro
della memoria ".
(M. VINCENT)