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Poirier-Bures, Simone
That Shining Place
The story of a 21-year-old woman's search for a simple, authentic life on the Greek island of Crete in the mid '60s. She is befriended by an older Greek woman who teaches her how to cook and dance, and she spends her evenings dancing in the tavernas. It ends with the return visit 25 years later and the changes she observed in the people and their lives. 93p. Book
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Vrontis, Anastassios
Rhodes
Vintage. locally produced pictorial guide for tourists. 67p.+ plates (B &W) & W] Fold out map at rear. Text neat and tight, slight shelf wear to covers Book
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Vrettakos, Nikiforos
Gifts in Abeyance: Last Poems 1981-91
NEW - Will be sent to you direct from the publisher. Book
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Layton, Irving
The Whole Bloody Bird (Obs, Aphs & Pomes)
Given a Canada Council Grant in 1967 Irving Layton went to Greece, Israel, India and Nepal. The result is"One way of regarding this book is to think of my 1968 journal as exploding into obersvations, aphorisms and Poems...I decided to publish excerpts and selections.. I thought that, flanked by poems, mostly written this year, that they might add up to a revealing picture of one man's experience of 1968" It includes his Greek poems from Lesbos. 161p, ndex Book
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Prattas, Zaharias Jack C.
Democracy at 2500
Text of address given in June 1993 for the "Celebrations of 2,500 Years of Democracy" Book
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Tourtidis, Ilya
Mad Magellan's Tale
Ilya Tourtidis was born in Greece in 1949. He moved to Australia when he was four years old and to Canada when he was fifteen. Educated at the University of Victoria, he worked as a teacher and later as a School Counselor in the Comox Valley where he now resides. He was Co-winner of the Gerald Lampert Award in 1994 for his first book of poems, Mad Magellan's Tale. Book
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Apostolides, Marianne
Sophrosyne. A Novel
Sophrosyne is one of only four virtues identified by Socrates - four traits which, if lived deeply, define who we are as human beings. But sophrosyne is a concept our culture has long forgotten. 'Self-restraint,' 'self-control,' 'modesty,' 'temperance' - none of these terms expresses the essence of the word. In this provocative new novel by acclaimed author Marianne Apostolides, 21-year-old Alex is consumed by the elusive problem of sophrosyne for reasons he cannot share with others. While Alex's philosophy professor believes studying it will help shed light on the malaise of our era, Alex hopes it will release him from his darkly disturbing relationship with his mother. As he attempts to uncover his mother's truth, Alex is drawn inside an amorphous, indefinable undercurrent of love and violation. Only through his lover, Meiko, does Alex open into a new understanding of sophrosyne, with all its implications. Reminiscent of Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, Sophrosyne asks readers to surrender themselves to the book's logic and language. Infused with a sensuality balanced by its intellect, Sophrosyne reads like "the music's rhythm. soft like wax and supple, warm," pulsing through your veins.168p. Author signature on title page Book
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Apostolides, Marianne
Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth About the Writing Life (Department of Narrative Studies)
158 p. Book
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J.A.C.T.Joint Association of Classical Teachers
An Independent Study Guide to Reading Greek
This Independent Study Guide is intended to help students who are learning Greek on their own or with only limited access to a teacher. It contains notes on the Greek texts that appear in the Reading Greek Text volume, translations of all the texts, answers to the exercises in the Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises volume and cross references to the relevant fifth-century B.C. background in The World of Athens. There are instructions on how to use the course and the Study Guide. Apart from those studying entirely on their own, students in schools, in universities and summer schools who have to learn Greek rapidly and intensively will also welcome the appearance of this book. 346p. Book
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J.A.C.T.Joint Association of Classical Teachers
Reading Greek : The Intellectual Revolution: Selections from Euripides, Thucydides and Plato (Reading Greek)
The first part of the JACT Greek course is Reading Greek. It consists of two volumes, one of text and one of grammar, vocabulary and exercises and gives the student a thorough introduction to Attic Greek as well as to Herodotus and Homer. A World of Heroes and The Intellectual Revolution are designed to take students on from Reading Greek and to give them a graded introduction to six of Ancient Greece's most important authors.Text and running vocbaulary 159p. illus Book
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J.A.C.T.Joint Association of Classical Teachers
Reading Greek : A World of Heroes
The first part of the JACT Greek course is Reading Greek. It consists of two volumes, one of text and one of grammar, vocabulary and exercises and gives the student a thorough introduction to Attic Greek as well as to Herodotus and Homer. A World of Heroes and The Intellectual Revolution are designed to take students on from Reading Greek and to give them a graded introduction to six of Ancient Greece's most important authors.Text and running vocbaulary 139p. illus Book
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Stone,Tom
Greek Food and Drink Book
Tom Stone's Greek Food and Drink Book is a how-to guide to eating in Greece. If, when in Greece, you venture into most of the country beyond "international cuisine," this gently opinionated little book will explain the kinds of food, wonderfully different from anything non-Mediterranean, you will encounter. 148p. with pronunciation guides throughout the text, appendices on useful phrases, weights and measures, and the Greek festive calendar. Book
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Heighton, Steven
The Admen Move on Lhasa : Writing and Culture in a Virtual World
Acclaimed fiction writer and poet Steven Heighton confronts our society's growing preference for the virtual, in the media, in our modes of communication, in art, in war, as opposed to the visceral. In these essays Heighton explores ways of remaining authentically creative and passionately engaged with life in an increasingly artificial world. Book
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Heighton, Steven
The Shadow Boxer
The Shadow Boxer...gives literary life to the Northern Ontario landscape of "the Soo", and the demanding, muscular life of Lake Superior where giant ore-barges make their way over the grave of The Edmund Fitzgerald. Intricately patterned and multi-layered, this is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets off into the world to make it, and whose romantic and professional misadventures take him as far as Egypt before he finds his way back to the Great Lakes. But the classic writerly dream that Sevigne pursues turns out in practice to have a different and darker reality than any he had foreseen. 384p. Uncorrected proof. Book
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Heighton, Steven
The Shadow Boxer
Signed by author on title page.. The Shadow Boxer, he delivers a stunning portrait of the artist in the tradition of such great tales as Jude the Obscure, Candide and even Don Quixote, and gives literary life to the Northern Ontario landscape of "the Soo", and the demanding, muscular life of Lake Superior where giant ore-barges make their way over the grave of The Edmund Fitzgerald. Intricately patterned and multi-layered, this is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets off into the world to make it, and whose romantic and professional misadventures take him as far as Egypt before he finds his way back to the Great Lakes. But the classic writerly dream that Sevigne pursues turns out in practice to have a different and darker reality than any he had foreseen. Book
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Heighton, Steven
The Shadow Boxer
The Shadow Boxer...gives literary life to the Northern Ontario landscape of "the Soo", and the demanding, muscular life of Lake Superior where giant ore-barges make their way over the grave of The Edmund Fitzgerald. Intricately patterned and multi-layered, this is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets off into the world to make it, and whose romantic and professional misadventures take him as far as Egypt before he finds his way back to the Great Lakes. But the classic writerly dream that Sevigne pursues turns out in practice to have a different and darker reality than any he had foreseen. Book
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Heighton, Steven
On Earth as it Is
The interlocking worlds of the erotic and the sacred are explored in the novella and nine stories. These range from present-day Toronto to the nineteenth-century high Arctic, from the Greek Islands to Kathmandu, from a tunnel under Vimy Ridge in 1915 where a Canadian sentry hears his enemy singing through the wall, to a tourist town in the Rockies where a painter and her dying husband make love for the last time. Crisp unread copy, but with remainder mark, e;se fine. Book
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Lydakis, Stelios [Ioannis Mitrakas ]
Mitrakas 40 Chronia Demiougias = Mitrakas 40 years of Creation
Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition [ 12 Nov - 7 Dec 2008 at the Museum of the City of Athens] of the iconographic art of Ioannis Mitrakas combining the Thracian origins, the Byzantine grandeur, the orthodox spirituality of hagiography, the pulsating modern world. The artist dives his brush into the past, captures the "cultural becoming" of the present and finally with his work, an artistic ark of modern Greek culture, leaves an important artistic legacy to future generations. 119p. illus [2 copies found in Worldcat] Book
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Beratis,Giannis; Petros Haris, Dimitris Hatzis, Spyros Plaskovitis, Stratis Tsirkas
Aspects of Civil War : McGill Companions to Modern Greek Studies
Series B # 6 in the "McGill Companions to Modern Greek Studies"series . Contains material by Giannis Beratis, Petros Haris, Dimitris Hatzis, Spyros Plaskovitis, Stratis Tsirkas. with extensive notes and explanations in English. 202p. map Book
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Venezis,Elias [Elias Mellos)
Aiolian Land [Aioloki Ge]
Series B in the "McGill Companions to Modern Greek Studies"series . Contains the text of "Aioloke Ge" in Greek with extensive notes and explanations in English by Anne Farmakides and contributions by Diana Hass & Maria Tolis .xiv, 381 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. Book
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Douglas,William O
Strange Lands and Friendly People
Travel and commentary on Greece,Cyprus,Persia,India and the Middle East in the years just after WW II.336p.plates.index. Book
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Marriner, John
Mariner in the Mediterranean
Description of voyages round the coasts of Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece. Turkey, Cyprus, Syria and Lebanon (in 1967 before the various recent troubles in some of those countries) 186p. maps. plates. index Book
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Johnstone, Pauline
A Guide to Greek Island Embroidery
Well illustrated with examples of textiles from Dodecanese, The Cyclades; the Northern Islands; Epirus & the Ionisn Islands; the Greek mainland; Crete and Cyprus.110p. illus.Cover slightly tanned from sun exposure, else fine Book
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Christakos, Margaret
Other Words for Grace
"Margaret Christakos reinterprets the notion of grace in the lyrical and honest book of linked poems aout the coming of age of a little girl in the 1970's. 95p. Book
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Moyer, Linda Lancione & Willes, Burl
Undiscovered Islands of the Mediterranean
"Are there any undiscovered Mediterranean islands? .... In this book [there are] island treasures off the coasts of France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey where you will encounter few other tourists, hospitable people, and beautiful landscapes. Along with insider information on each island's character and ambience, they tell the traveler how to get there, where to stay, where to eat, and even where to find that very special walk. ... off the beaten track to islands of unusual charms, glorious climate, and unrivaled beauty. 220p. illus. MAPS Book
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Petris, Tassos & Despyris, Yiannis
Cephalonia - Ithaca : History, Art, Folklore Itineraries.
Colourful illustrated tourist souvenir guide to the Cephallonia and Ithaca in the Ionian island.128p. illus (col) index.[NO copies found in WorldCat Book
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Leveque, Pierre
The Birth of Greece
Small format book about ancient Greece, well illustrated. Translation of a book originally published in France by Gallimard. 175p. plates (some col.) bibliography. index. Book
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Prevelakis, Pandelis
The Cretan (a trilogy in one volume)
NEW - Will be sent to you direct from the publisher."Pandelis Prevelakis (1909-86), a major Greek writer, has produced over forty volumes of poetry, novels, plays, and essays ...Prevelakis has long been in the shadow of his close friend and fellow Cretan, Nikos Kazantzakis. It is time that Prevelakis's work be made known and independently appraised in the non-Greek world as it has been in the Greek. The English edition of his major work, The Cretan, is a step in that direction. In this Tolstoyan historical novel, Prevelakis offers a masterly presentation of the Cretan myth, with its peculiar Cretan ethos characterized by piety, austerity, frugality, dourness, sternness, punctuated by sudden outbursts of reckless daring.The Cretan is the story of Crete and its people struggling for individual and national liberation from Turkish rule, a struggle symbolized in the two main characters of the novel, the fictional Konstandis and the historical Venizelos, both figures of epic proportions. The Cretan is three books in one: The Tree, The First Freedom, and The State. And as its author explained, The Tree presents a young man, growing and maturing like a sapling in the local popular culture, which was closed and rudimentary, but self-sufficient. The First Freedom describes the struggles of the mature man together with his comrades to achieve national liberation. Lastly, The State depicts the national fighters sacrificing themselves for the second precondition of a decent life, in other words, a democratic state.The Cretan will delight readers who may have spent some time on Crete. It will, most likely, encourage those who have not been to Crete to plan for a visit there in the near future. In any event, it is absorbing reading ..." Book
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Pan-macedonian Association
Eternal Flame / Aionia Phloga 2005
Spring Fashion show 2005. Publlcation in support of the cultural activities of the Pan-Macedonian Association of Toronto. Directory of commercial sponsors. 54p. illus [NO copies in WorldCat] Book
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Makedoniki Zoe Ho Chrysaphi Makedonon # 152, Jan 1979
"Macedonian Life" Among other articles this issue includes an Illustrated survey of some outstanding examples of Hellenistic metalwork in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki .. 55p. Magazine
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Wynne-Thomas,Joan
Legacy of Thasos
Fascinating account of the archaeology and history of Thasos in the Northern Aegean. 119p.maps. plates diagrs.bibliography. Book
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Mitropias, Artemios M.
Santorine/ Santorini
Colourful vintage guide to Santorini for visitors - 78p. illus colour . No date or publisher given (c 1970?) seems to have been self published on the island by the author covers prehistoric and ancient Thera. 78p.illus.[9 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Martin-Papazouglou, Ann
Books from Greece : Publishing output 1996-97 Literature & Language
Useful English language bibliography of books published in Greece. 327p, Indexes in English and Greek [8 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Vougioukas, Aristeidis
Romaiki Kai Byzantini Historia
History textbook from Rome to the end of Byzantium foe greade 5 Greek schoolchildren. 183p. illus. ) Name of student, stamps of Canadian organization, else fine. Book
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Korbelas, Amanda
Through Her Eyes :Poetry Collection
"Through Her Eyes' is a collection of all of my favorite pieces of poetry...Over 120 pages of poetry and illustrations and will leave you wanting more. From anger to hurt, sadness to happiness. You will get a glimpse of my journey in coming to terms with who I am-to-who I want to become.For every copy sold $5.00 will be donated to the OSPCA and the Humane Society" Illustrations by Elle Mair. 120p,illus Author signature on colophon Aothor's business card laid in. [Not found in WordCat or NLC] Book
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Konstantopoulou, G [George K, Contstantopoulos]
To Ellenopaido Tis Amerikis Alphaveterion Teuchos Proton : idiaiteros synistomenon hypo tou an. ekd. symvouliou
Vintage textbook used in First Grade Greek language classes for American children. Reprint of a book previously issued in 1935 and 1942 . A nice piece of Greek American nostalgia. Name, scribblings and some damage to pages 1-34 by Maria, a previous young owner before she gave up - so pages 35-92 are neat and unmarked, Hinges weak.92p Illus. [col]+ a page listing other publications. [NO copies found in Worldcat], . Book
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Simmel, Johannes Mario
He Mitera Mou Then Prepei Na to Pote.
"Meine Mutter darf es nie erfahren : ein aufregendes Abenteuer rund um ein schlechte Zeugnis" Translated into Greek by Jenny Mastoraki 146p. Illus. [B & W] Neat, clean. tight copy.Library stamp on ffep, rear end paper missing. Ex-Library
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Tzonis, Alexander & Lefaivre, Liane
Classical Architecture: The Poetics of Order
This fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture is the first book to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures. It researches the generative rules, the poetics of composition that classical architecture shares with classical music, poetry, and drama, and is enriched by a variety of examples and an extensive analysis of compositional rules. The 205 line drawings make up a discourse of their own, a pictorial text that serves as an introductory theory of composition or basic design aid. Drawing from Vitruvius, the poetics of Aristotle, the theories of classical architecture, music, and poetry since the Renaissance, and the poetics of the Russian formalists, the authors present classical architecture as a coherent system of architectural thinking that is capable of producing a tragic humanistic discourse, a public art with critical, moral, and philosophical meaning. Alexander Tzonis is Crown Professor of Architectural Theory and Methodology at the Technische Hogeschool, Delft. Liane Lefaivre teaches at the Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Arnhem. "This publication draws in part from De taal van de klassicistiese architektuur" 306p.illus. plans, bibliography.index. - Book
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Angelopoulos,Gianna [Angelopoulou-Daskalaki, Gianna]
My Greek Drama: Life, Love, and One Woman's Olympic Effort to Bring Glory to Her Country
Gianna Angelopoulos attempts to view the course of the past decades through her own personal experience. A girl from Crete, with dreams and aspirations, as a lawyer was involved with politics... and alongside Theo Angelopoulos .. in the world of business - and family life , until in 1996 she was given the task of organizing the 2104 Olympic Games in Greece . 299p. plates [some col.] Inscribed with personal thank you note on Greek on on half title Book
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Kunze, Max
The Pergamon Altar: Its Rediscovery, History and Reconstruction
The Pergamon Altar is a monumental construction built during the reign of king Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Asia Minor.In 1878, the German engineer Carl Humann started official excavations on the acropolis of Pergamon, an effort that lasted until 1886. The reconstruction of these findings is now in the Museum in Berlin 48p.Illus. Cover slghtly scuffed Book
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Murray, Gilbert
Five Stages of Greek Religion
Studies based on a course of lectures on ancient Greek religious practices and beliefs,originally delivered April 1912 at Columbia University . ".be begins by describing the background of primitive and bloody rites that may still be dimly perceived through the clear surface of the Greek myths; continues with the classic religion of the Olympian Gods (.); describes the religion of the Philosophic schools of the fourth centry BC ; and then in a classic chapter on the "failure of Nerve" portrays the breakdown of rational Greek religion under the impact of religions of the East; ot of that clash was to arise Christianity. A last chapter drescribes the affort of Julian the Apostate to retore a purified and . sophisticated paganism." 221p. index. An original vintage copy, NOT one you have to wait to get printed Book
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Aeschylus [ Gryparis, Ioannes N]
Oresteia ( Agamemnonas - Choephores) Oi Tragodies Tou Aischylou
Texts of rwo plays - Agamemnonas and Choephores - translatedinto modern Greek by Ioannes N Gryparis.[Gryparis' translations of "Hoi tragodies tou Aischylou" were originally published in 1909] This more recent edition is undated [c1970?[ 102p. Stamp of previous owner on title page, staples beginning to rust, else a crisp, near fine copy [NO examples of this edition found in WordCat] Book
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Reeves, Jonathan & Russell,Stephen
The Ancient World in Film : Volume Two
A collection of texts from classical literature that served as inspiration for popular motion pictures. Compiled and translated by Jonathan Reeves and Stephen Russell. This is Volume 2 ONLY of a 2 volume set. Contains: Chapter 7 "Alexander the Great" citing Plutarch / Chapter 8 "Spartacus"citing Sallust, Cicero, Caesar and others/ Chapter 9 "A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," Plautus / Chapter 10 "I Claudius" citing Tacitus,Suetonius / Chapter 11 "Gladiator"citing Historia Augusta on Commodus /Chapter 12 "Coriolanus" citing Plutarch/ Chapter 13 / The Hunger Games" citing Plutarch, Thucydides , Catullus. 248p. 7284p. [Only ONE copy found in WorldCat] Book
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Friar,Kimon
The Spiritual Odyssey of Nikos Kazantzakis
Edited with an introduction by Theofanis G. Stavrou. Through "The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel" and "The Saviors of God" (books he translated into English), Friar describes the "essence of the thought and spiritual struggle of Kazantzakis". Also, included in this small volume are some letters from Kazantzakis to Friar and critical comments on "The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel" NEW - Will be sent to you direct from the publisher Book
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Sikelianos ,Eleni
The Book of Jon
With a seamless weave of letters, reminiscences, poems, and journal entries, Eleni Sikelianos creates a loving portrait - and an unblinking indictment - of her father, Jon: a talented musician, a high school dropout, an autodidact descendent of Greek nobility, and, for much of his life, a drug addict. An eccentric visionary, he emerges as a brilliant, irresponsible, frustrating, and ultimately tragic figure. In 2001, after three years of homelessness on the streets of Albuquerque, he died in a motel room from an overdose." Vivid and poignant evocation of a daughter's relationship with her enigmatic, inspiring, and deeply troubled father"116p. illus, author inscription on title page Book
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Meitanis-Elisseou, Erasmia
Lament in Prose
Translation into English by Savvia Michailidou of the biographical chapters from "Odyne Se Pezo Kai Stichous" which included a personal account by a Cypriot woman whose family was caught up in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. 50p. illus (B & W) [NO copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Humphries, John
The Essential Saffron Companion
Since ancient times Saffron has been used not only as a seasoning but as a medicinal plant, and its history features in many countries and cultures such as ancient Greece, Persia and Rome as well as England, primarily in Saffron Walden, Essex... The slender, dry crocus filaments add a rich colour, fragrance and flavour to food, qualities which have been much prized in the cuisines of many countries.160p. illus bibliography ndex Book
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Kinsley,David
The Goddesses' Mirror: Visions of the Divine from East and West
An examination of " how the divine has been perceived in the feminine form" though goddeses from different cultures " Each goddess is treated seperately in considerable chapters to provide for clear understanding and meaning within her cultural context." Chapters on Athena (pp.139-164 ) and Aphrodite .(185-214) 320p. illus bibliography.index Book
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Mingazzini,Paolino
Greek Pottery Painting
(Cameo series) Small illustrated handbook to the lovely painting on ancient Greek vases. 157p. plates (col) Book
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Coarelli, Filipo
Greek and Roman Jewellery
(Cameo series)Smail illustrated handbook on Greek and Roman gems and jewellery. 157p. plates (col.) Book
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