Author: EPICTETUS | Translated by P.E. Matheson | With an Introduction by Tristan K. Husby | ‘Of all existing things, some are in our power,…
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Compiled by Alexander Zaphiriou | Illustrations by Panagiotis Stavropoulos | Like the constellations in the sky, words such as ‘aphrodisiac’, ‘hubris’, ‘museum’, ‘galaxy’ and ‘mentor’…
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Translated by Alexander Zaphiriou | Illustrated by Panagiotis Stavropoulos | Words of Wisdom from Ancient Greece gathers the best of a thousand years of philosophy,…
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Author: C.P. Cavafy | Translated by David Connolly | Cavafy is by far the most translated and most well-known Greek poet internationally. His work exists…
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Author: Antonis Smarakis | Translated by Simon Darragh | A man is seized from his afternoon drink at the Café Sport by two agents of…
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Author: George Seferis | Translated by Roderick Beaton | Often compared during his lifetime to T.S. Eliot, whose work he translated and introduced to Greece,…
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Author: M. Karagatsis | Translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito | Eager to flee the parochialism of her French upbringing, and a painful family past, the…
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Authors: Anonymous | Translated by Alexander Zaphiriou | Greek folk tales descend from Aesop and Greek antiquity, as well as medieval storytelling in the pivotal…
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Translated by Joshua Barley – With a Foreword by A.E. Stallings | The Greek folk songs—Dimotika Tragoudia in Greek— are songs of the Greek countryside,…
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Author: Constantine Cavafy | Cavafy travelled for the first time in Greece in the summer of 1901 during a period of leave from his job.…
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Authors: Alexia Amvrazi, Diana Farr Louis and Diane Shugart | Athens can be noisy and crowded and confusing, but it’s spontaneous and always surprising. A cable…
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Edited by Konstantina Georganta | Athens in Poems reveals the glorious palimpsest that is Athens mapping the city one poem at a time from the…
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Author: Edward Enfield | Fired by a long enthusiasm for all things Greek, Edward Enfield mounts his trusty Raleigh to follow in the footsteps of…
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Author: Edmund Keeley | In the looming shadow of dictatorship and imminent war, George Seferis and George Katsimbalis welcomed Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell to…
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Author: Nikos Vatopoulos | Walking in Athens is a unique compilation of photos and accompanying articles, that came about from walking in various neighborhoods of Athens.…
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Author: David Prudhomme | Fin des années 30, en Grèce. La dictature militaire s’installe et les libertés fondent comme neige au soleil. L’esprit frondeur de…
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Scrittore: Jorgos Scambardonis | Salonicco 1942. Vasilis Tsitsanis, l’ultimo, grande esponente della musica rebetika, nel cuore della città apre una degustazione di ouzo, un “ouzerì”,…
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Authors: Plato | The classic translation of the cornerstone work of western philosophy Plato’s Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works…
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Authors: Aesop | A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The Complete Fables,…
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Authors: Plato | The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of…
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Authors: Kazantzakis Nikos | This autobiographical novel is one of the last things written by Kazantzakis before he died in 1957. It paints a vivid…
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Authors: Kazantzakis Nikos | The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play…
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Authors: Plato | Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have…
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Author: Hislop Victoria | In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens and into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages.…
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Author: Homer | Odysseus-soldier, trickster, and everyman-is one of the most recognizable characters in world literature. His arduous, ten-year journey home after the Trojan War, the…
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Author: Fowles John | Read John Fowles’s feisty, clever, cunning and compelling novel with an unusual twist. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself…
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Author: Hislop Victoria | Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The…
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Author: Karnezis Panos | Panos Karnezis’ remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there –…
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Author: Homer | ‘The first great book about the suffering and loss of war’ Guardian One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer’s Iliad…
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Author: Hislop Victoria | Thessaloniki, 1917 | As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city, where Christians, Jews and Moslems…
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