On Monday, the Cambridge Union Society debated “This House would return the Parthenon Marbles to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens.” Sponsoring the debate was easyCruise. The travel company offers a Classical Greece cruise that includes a visit to the Acropolis, the tourist attraction bereft of most of its treasures. An Acropolis reunited […]
Another great book review by Apostolos Vasilakis over at Greekworks.com. This time it’s a review of George Pelecanos’s The Night Gardener. Vasilakis begins the review with a quote from Petros Markaris, the Greek crime writer (Deadline in Athens) who was the subject of Vasilakis’s previous reviews. The quote:
[The] detective novel becomes more and more social….It’s […]
Nikos Kazantzakis kept a bowl of fruit on his writing desk and pomegranates, when in season, were his favourites. Symbolism? A muse? Who knows. Pomegrantes are in season now and I bought four at the supermarket the other day. They’re always around here, in Greece, especially as decorations at Christmas time. Persephone was tricked into […]
The much anticipated translation of poems and prose of Greek poet of despair Kostas Karyotakis by Keith Taylor and William W. Reader has been published. Taylor and Reader have been collaborating on this project for years and won the 2004 Keeley and Sherrard Award from Poetry Greece magazine for two translations.
From the publisher:
KOSTAS KARYOTAKIS, Battered […]
Well, the books arrived. The Karyotakis, the crime novels, the kids’ school books, and the Greek grammar and language books for me.
My relationship with the Greek language is a long one. I first heard it before I was born. I’ve always been hearing it. I’ve always been speaking it. Sometimes speaking a funky mix of […]
Browsing through the archives of Archaeology on this very wet Greek day, I pause to read a piece called “Artful Surgery” by one Anagnostis P. Agelarakis. The subtitle states: “Greek archaeologists discover evidence of a skilled surgeon who practiced centuries before Hippocrates.”
The remains of a woman excavated by Eudokia Skarlatidou in the Clazomenean colony […]
"Feasting with Archestratus," a feature story on what the ancient Greeks thought was good to eat, in Odyssey magazine (Nov/Dec 2007).
My poem "Seduction" published in Wetink, Issue 7, Winter 2007
"Alexander's Enduring Myth," a review of two books about the legendary king and conqueror, in Odyssey magazine (May/June 2007).
"Reconstructing the Past," my feature on archaeological restoration in Greece explores the debate about how far restorations should go in the name of making ancient monuments more comprehensible to the public, in Odyssey magazine (Nov/Dec 2006).
My short story "A Silly Little Thing" in the See You Next Tuesday anthology of 50 sex-texts.
"Particles of Truth," my interview with particle physicist Maria Spiropulu in Odyssey magazine (Sept/Oct 2006).
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