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Biography of a Modern Nation
We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in...
A Global History
'Monumental . . . A wonderful book.' Peter Frankopan'Magisterial . . . remarkable.' Guardian'Erudite and highly readable . . . An authoritative guide ...
Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797–1896)
Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and...
Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution
This fresh perspective on Byron's relationship with Greece throws new light on its importance both for Byron and for Greece....
First published by CUP in 1989, The Medieval Greek Romance provides basic information for the non-specialist about Greek fiction during the period 107...
Waiting for the Angel : a Biography
Biografie van de Griekse dichter (1900-1971)....
The Philhellenes in the War of Independence
"When in 1821 the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the Unit...
Medieval Texts and Their Modern Reception
The twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation in Byzantium: the long disused genres of epic, satire and the novel (or 'romance') t...
The book highlights those writers and works which have enjoyed critical or popular acclaim, and emphasizes the relationships which link one work with ...
New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry
Called variously the ’Byzantine epic’, the ’epic of Modern Greece’, an ’epic-romance’ and ’romance’, the poem of Digenes Akrites has, ...
It has been called the age of revolution. The white heat of it came in the decades either side of the year 1800. But it lasted a full century: from...
Poet, essayist, diarist, novelist, and diplomat, George Seferis brought about a revolution in the way people viewed his native Greece. Acclaimed for h...
An Englishman sets out for an ancient Greek palace in Crete to clear his family's name. The man's father and grandfather excavated it and they have be...
Selected Poems 1974-2010
The first major English selection of this exceptional Greek poet spans thirty-six years, covering a varied poetic career--from the first registration ...
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