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Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 91.00The first translation of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. more...
The Collected Poems
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 8.95a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery,... more...
Mediterranean Modernisms
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist thinkers in Europe, including Albert Camus, Charles Baudelaire, Gaston Bachelard, Sigmund Freud, and C. G. Jung. Informed by extensive research in the United... more...
The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 99.50The life of Nikos Kazantzakis--the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ --was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and translated by Kazantzakis scholar Peter Bien, this is the most comprehensive selection of Kazantzakis's letters... more...
Die griechische Literatur des Altertums
De Gruyter 1995; US$ 126.00Die Griechische Literatur DES CB. more...
The Collected Poems
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 8.99This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of Cavafy's 154 authorized poems ever to be published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of the poet's individual tone of voice. - ;'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster.... more...
Scandalizing Jesus?
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 150.002005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Nikos Kazantzakis The Last Temptation of Christ. Since Kazantzakis ranks as one of the twentieth centurys most important European writers, and given that this particular work of his has garnered so much publicity, this collection of essays re-assesses the novel, though not forgetting the movie, in... more...
The Career and Writings of Demetrius Kydones
BRILL 2010; US$ 154.00Demetrius Kydones was a leading political and intellectual figure in fourteenth-century Byzantium, know especially for his translations of Aquinas and pro-western attitudes. This book examines Kydones? career and writings in order to see what light they shed on Byzantine political and cultural developments in the period. more...
Supplementum melodiarum reliquiae
De Gruyter 1996; US$ 56.00Musici scriptores Graeci: Supplementum melodiarum reliquiae (Bibliotheca Teubneriana) more...
Constantine of Rhodes, On Constantinople and the Church of the Holy Apostles
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 124.95Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public monuments in Constantinople and of the Church of the Holy Apostles. On one level, the poem offers an account of what was visible but it cannot be read as a straightforward description. Rather, Constantine's work offers insights into Byzantine perceptions of works of art. This... more...
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