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My Favourite Books About Greece

July 24, 2020
  • My Favourite Books About Greece

Aristotle and Poetic Justice : Murder and Mystery in Ancient Athens

July 24, 2020 By Eleni

Stephanos and his teacher, the philosopher Aristotle, are drawn into solving the perplexing abduction case of Anthia, the heiress of a prominent silver merchant. Someone has snatched her from her home, but no one knows the

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Tagged Aristotle, Delphi, Margaret Doody, Oracle
July 24, 2020
  • My Favourite Books About Greece

The Parthenon

July 24, 2020 By Eleni

Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears–and, always, recognition. Twenty-five

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Tagged Acropolis, Athens, British Museum, Elgin Marbles, Lord Byron, Mary Beard, Parthenon, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf
July 24, 2020
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter

July 24, 2020 By Eleni

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly

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Tagged Athens, Greek Islands, Iliad, Legacies, Sparta, Thomas Cahill
July 24, 2020
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My Family and Other Animals

July 24, 2020 By Eleni

The first book Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, now the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece PBS

Tagged Corfu, Gerald Durrell, The Durrells
July 24, 2020
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The King Must Die

July 24, 2020 By Eleni

In this ambitious, ingenious narrative, celebrated historical novelist Mary Renault take legendary hero Theseus and spins his myth into a fast-paced and exciting story. Renault starts with Theseus’ early years, showing how the mystery of

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Tagged Athens, Crete, Eleusis, Mary Renault, Minotaur, Theseus
July 24, 2020
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The Penelopiad

July 24, 2020 By Eleni

In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope–wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy–is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years

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Tagged Homer, Margaret Atwood, Odysseus, Penelope, The Odyssey
July 24, 2020
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Greek Wild Flowers and plant lore in ancient Greece

July 24, 2020 By Eleni

This pocket-sized book is a study of over 6000 species of flowers in Greece, in which the author has also studied the place the flowers held in the lives of the Ancient Greeks – in their literature, mythology, religion and art.

Tagged Botany, Flora, Flowers

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My Book Suggestions


Aristotle and Poetic Justice : Murder and Mystery in Ancient Athens

Greek Wild Flowers and plant lore in ancient Greece

My Family and Other Animals

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter

The King Must Die

The Parthenon

The Penelopiad

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