Professor Theodosios Pelegrinis has written a new dictionary of philosophy in Greek (Λεξικό της Φιλοσοφίας, Εκδόσεις Ελληνικά Γράμματα, 2004). The last dictionary of its kind was published around 80 years ago.
Pelegrinis began work on his dictionary in 1999. The finished book is 1512 pages long. It spans 25 centuries of philosophical thought, via 15,000 […]

While certain Greek lawyers are getting all silly over Oliver Stone’s gay Alexander, Greek daily newspaper Eleftherotypia dedicated its weekly book review supplement Vivliothiki to homosexuality in literature. Of course, the motivation for this issue comes from the ManBooker winner this year, Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty.
The issue lists a bibliography on Greek books with […]

According to Greek daily Kathimerini* Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code has been on the Top 10 bestseller list for 30 weeks. Yowza! And this week it’s at Numero 2. His Angels and Demons (title translated as Illuminati in the Greek) is at the Numero 3 spot this week and has been on […]

The National Book Centre (EKEBI) and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF), present this From Book to Screen thing at the old warehouses of the port of Thessaloniki through to November 28. Films based on books, books about film.

The Culture Guide notes the presentation of three theatre books, written by Iosif Vivilakis, at the Book Gallery of Athens…
Iosif Vivilakis is assistant professor at the Theatre Studies Department of the University of Athens. The first two books, “Theatre representation in Byzantium and West” (Publication House of Goulandris-Horn Foundation) and “For the sanctuary and drama. […]

As of next year the Greek Book Centre will award cash prizes to the best film based on a literary work, report Ta Nea. A first timer in Greece.

Greek daily Ta Nea notes that Amazon.com has declared the Homeric epics as this year’s bestsellers, thanks to the film Troy. But Greek publishers haven’t noted any significant rise in demand for the Odyssey and Iliad, though the Kazantzakis-Kakrides translation is doubling its print run this year resulting in 3000 copies from the usual 1500 […]

Kathimerini English Edition reports that “relics looted by Bulgaria are on their way home to Greece”. Manuscripts and other relics taken from monasteries in Macedonia and Thrace during WWI are being ‘repatriated’.
A few days ago when Bulgaria’s President Georgi Parvanov expressed his government’s intention of returning the relics to Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios. “The development came […]

Sofka Zinovieff’s Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens 
Mark Dragoumis over at the Athens News has written an article about this memoir/travel book.