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Iη this anthology he tries to explore its various aspects through the writings of those who over the centuries have found iη Greece, not simply an object of study οr a romantic haven, but a challenge, an incitement and a reciprocity that has stirred the wellsprings of both heart and imagination. Το give an inner coherence to this exploration the passages chosen are presented iη the form of an itinerary that includes all the major areas of Greece, the Aegean Islands and Crete. The remarkably evocative photographs by Dimitri complement this itinerary, providing the visual component of an image which cannot but enrich the experience of all who, for whatever reasons, have set out οη this journey of self-discovery that Greece offers them. ","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84957.jpg","isbn":null,"isbn13":null,"ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":291,"publication_year":1987,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84957,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-pursuit-of-greece.json"},{"id":82917,"title":"A Greek Quintet","subtitle":"Poems","description":"During this century the Greek world has produced a wealth of poetry that is as astonishing in its scope as it is in its vigour; and this anthology brings together a selection from the works of the five poets who may be said to take pride οf place in substantiating this achievement. Two of them (George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis) are Nobel Laureates, Cavafy is certainly one of the most ubiquitous poets of our times, the oracular grandeur of Angelos Sikelianos companions him with W. Β. Yeats, while Nikos Gatsos, less known outside Greece, is a fine lyrical poet and song writer . \u003cbr\u003eThe poems in this selection are for the most part taken from the translators' more ample volumes of translations of Greek poetry, namely, their \"George Seferis: Collected poems\", of which Peter Levi wrote,\"I doubt if we shall ever see translations as wonderfully full of Seferis as these\"; their \"C. Ρ. Cavafy: Collected poems\", described by Stephen Spender as \"a prayer fulfilled\"; their \"Angelos Sikelianos: Selected poems\", and their \"Odysseus Elytis: Selected poems\". They have been chosen as those that translate most successfully intο English and at the same time are representative of the best work of the original poets. \u003cbr\u003e\"The arrival of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard οn the modern Greek translation scene marks quite a definite and definative stage of a process; the excellence of their work is really worthy of recognition ...\" (Lawrence Durrell, The New York Times Book Review). 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The selection was made by Seferis himself, drawing upon his prose work written over a period of thirty years. Seferis was a classicist and a humanist, a man of modern sensibility imbued with a deep respect for Mediterranean tradition. He is present iη all these aspects in his essays. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, the citation spoke of \"his eminent lyrical writings inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture\". Hellenism for Seferis is an enduring style, as alive and as meaningful today as when Homer and Pericles walked the roads of Greece. \"If we want to understand the ancient Greeks,\" Seferis writes, \"it is always into the soul of our own people that we should Iook.\" \u003cbr\u003eΑ central group of essays, then, is concerned with the spirit of Hellenism as it continues to manifest itself iη Greek painting, poetry, history, landscape, and religion. But of equal interest are the essays that explore international themes: art and \"engagement\"; the poetry of Eliot and Cavafy; the theatre of Pirandello; and the role of the artist in the modern world. Admirers of Seferis's poetry will take particular pleasure iη his introduction to his Iong poem \"The Thrush\", which is followed in this edition by the poem itself. \u003cbr\u003eVarious and occasional as these essays are, they are united by the extraordinary sensibility of their author. And they are to be savoured equally for their wisdom, subtlety, and impeccable style. \u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84962.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-03-5","isbn13":"978-960-7120-03-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":197,"publication_year":2000,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"10.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84962,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/on-the-greek-style.json"},{"id":82933,"title":"The Drama of Quality","subtitle":"Selected Essays","description":"Zissimos Lorenzatos (1915-2004), during his last years, was generally acknowledged to be the most important man of letters in Greece. An essayist, poet and thinker, he was perhaps the last of his generation with a vision that is both deeply religious and humane. His profound knowledge of European literature and thought, and his familiarity with the writings and philosophy of the East, along with his thorough assimilation of the long Greek tradition, enabled him to explore, with unusual insight, the spirit both of Europe and of modern Greece.\u003cbr\u003eThis second selection of his essays to be published in English includes his studies on the Greek writers Papadiamandis, Sikelianos and Capetanakis, and on the architect Dimitris Pikionis; and it concludes with a lengthy and penetrating discussion of the American poet Ezra Pound, who called himself the \"apostle of Europe\", and who visited Greece and met Lorenzatos in 1965.\u003cbr\u003eAs Dr David Ricks writes of these essays in his foreword: \"No-one who aspires to understand modern Greek culture should ignore them\".","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84967.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-16-7","isbn13":"978-960-7120-16-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":220,"publication_year":2000,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84967,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-drama-of-quality.json"},{"id":81393,"title":"Selected Poems","subtitle":null,"description":"Angelos Sikelianos (1884-1951) is generally recognized as the most important Greek poet between Cavafy and Seferis. This selection, although first published by Princeton University Press nearly twenty years ago, still remains the only collection of his poetry in English in volume form. Both the English and Greek texts of this present edition have been emended. Included here are works from the full range of the poet's career and in his several voices -those of the lyricist, the narrator, the seer. The volume also offers samples of the poet's varied forms, from sonnets to longer narrative and reflective poems, each rendered in a metrical equivalent. An introduction outlines the principal stages of the poet's development as thinker and craftsman in relation to the particular translations included. \u003cbr\u003eFor Sikelianos everything in the natural and visibIe world, when rightly perceived, is an expression of a supernatural and invisible order of reality. The task of the prophet, sage, and poet is to reconcile the one world with the other, to heal the dichotomy between them through an act of creative mediation. With this in mind, Sikelianos uses myth not as a rhetorical device but as a mode for revealing the eternal divinities that inhabit the physical world. In his Iate poems, myth becomes the agency for uniting his subjective and narrative voices into a sublime tragic vision. 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Their poetry has behind it the majestic and awe-inspiring worlds οf ancient Greece and Byzantium, as well as the centuries-old tradition οf folk-song and ballad; and each οf them has drawn upon this background in various ways. At the same time their imaginations have been enriched through contact with other European cultures. It is this fusion οf the local and the cosmopolitan that gives their poetry its unique quality, at once characteristically Greek and universal in its relevance. \u003cbr\u003eΙn this book, Philip Sherrard, a leading authority in the field οf modern Greek studies, examines the poetry οf five οf Greece's major poets: Solomos, Palamas, Cavafis, Sikelianos and Seferis. Working from the centre outwards, he explores the inner struggle that issues in the complex pattern οf the poetry, thus introducing the reader to the poet's imaginative world and giving him access to the experience οf life to which the poetry bears witness. ","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b83421.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-02-7","isbn13":"978-960-7120-02-1","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":258,"publication_year":1992,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"12.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":83421,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-marble-threshing-floor.json"},{"id":82915,"title":"The Greek East and the Latin West","subtitle":"A Study in the Christian Tradition","description":"Τhe division of Christendom into the Greek East and the Latin West has its origins far back in history but its consequences still affect Europe, and thus western civilization. Philip Sherrard's study seeks to indicate both the fundamental character and some of the consequences of this division. He points especially to the underlying metaphysical bases of Greek Christian thought, and contrasts them with those of the Latin West; he argues persuasively that the philosophical and even theological differences, remote as they might seem from practical affairs, are symptoms of a deep divergence of outlook that has profoundly affected the history of ideas and hence the whole course of European history. He exemplifies this by comparing the relationships between the spiritual and temporal powers during the Byzantine period with those assumed by the medieval Papacy, by an analysis of the \"Platonic reaction\" of such figures as Gemistos Plethon, and by an exposition of the intellectual background of the Renaissance, the Reformation and, finally, of the modern western world. His concluding chapters discuss the impact of modern western ideas οn Greek life and letters during the last few centuries. \u003cbr\u003eWith an unusual knowledge of aspects of the thought of the Greek Church Fathers often neglected in the West, and a deep sympathy with their outlook in these matters, Philip Sherrard presents a point of view that may be unfamiliar, but should be of great concern, both to theologians and philosophers, and to historians and students of European civilization and indeed of world affairs in general. 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His aim was not simply an armed rebellion but a regeneration of his people, through education, literature, propaganda, and social and political awareness. He wrote patriotic stories, poems, scientific lectures; he published detailed maps, translations from French and Italian, and drafted a constitution based οn the ideology of the French Revolution. He was the first Greek to insist that the popular language, or demotic Greek, should become the official language οf independent Greece. \u003cbr\u003eBorn in Greece under Turkish rule, Rhigas emigrated successively to Constantinople, Bucharest and Vienna. He recruited his supporters and laid his plans among the expatriate Greek communities, and he also had many contacts, through his successful activities as a businessman, in the Greek mainland and islands. But he himself was not to witness the realisation of his vision. Οn his way to Greece, where he intended first to stir up the Mani and then move north to Epiros and Macedonia, he was betrayed, arrested by the Austrian police, extradited to the Turkish authorities, and executed, with seven colleagues, at Belgrade. \u003cbr\u003eThis book is the first comprehensive study of Rhigas 's life and ideas in English. ","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84966.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-09-4","isbn13":"978-960-7120-09-0","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":180,"publication_year":1995,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"12.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84966,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/rhigas-velestinlis.json"},{"id":82925,"title":"Dionysius Solomós","subtitle":null,"description":"Dionysius Solomos is the fourth publication iη \"The Romiosyni Series\", a series concerned with the arts, the traditions, and the history of Greece during the post-Byzantine Ρeriοd. Already published are \"The marble threshing floor\", \"Studies in modern greek poetry\" by Philip Sherrard, an assessment of the works of Solomos, Palamas, Cavafis, Sikelianos and Seferis; \"The dark crystal\", an anthology of modem Greek poetry by Cavafy , Sikelianos, Seferis, Elytis and Gatsos, selected and translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard; \"The isles of Greece and other poems\" by Demetrios Capetanakis, the Greek writer who wrote this remarkable group of poems iη English during the few years he spent iη England where he died in 1944, at the age of 32. Later titles iη the series will include \"Οn the greek style, Selected essays οn poetry and Hellenism\" by George Seferis, with an introduction by Rex Wamer; Edward Lear' s Cretan Journal, written during his visit tο Crete in 1864 and nοt previously published, edited and with an introduction by Rowena Fowler; and \"The Dilessi murders\", an account of the kidnapping by Greek brigands of a party of English artistocrats iη 1870 -an incident which precipitated international tension and the threat of war , by Romilly Jenkins. ","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84959.jpg","isbn":null,"isbn13":null,"ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":225,"publication_year":1981,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"10.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84959,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/dionysius-solomos.json"},{"id":82940,"title":"The Isles of Greece","subtitle":null,"description":"Demetrios Capetanakis was born in Smyrna in 1912, twelve years after the Greek poet, George Seferis, was born in the same city. Seferis himself is reticent about his younger compatriot. Perhaps this is not accidental. Seferis on his own confession had \"nο idea about philosophical positions\". Capetanakis was a philosopher in the true sense of the word: a lover of wisdom. Before he came to England in 1939 he had received his doctorate in philosophy from Heidelberg University, and had written, in Greek, various philosophical studies, notably , \"The struggle of the solitary soul and the mythology of beauty\". Before he died, in London, in 1944, he had written, in English, several essays οη philosophical and literary themes, and had intended to write others, among them one οn Plato and another οn Kierkegaard. He felt that he had something οf significance to say about both οf them. Alas, he left nothing in a form that could be published. But in another sense, what he had to say he said through his poetry. Although he knew that, in his own words, \"poetry means language -the inmost essence οf language\", he also knew that unless the language expresses a meaning it will not be poetry. His Ianguage was the vehicle οf his thought, his poems are metaphysical poems. And their language is English, not Greek. Ιη the space οf a few years -he knew little English when he first came to England- he had achieved such mastery οf the English language that he was able to pack the intensity οf his thought into the four-Iine five-beat stanza οf English verse. It is fulsome to make claims for poems beyond those which the poems make for themselves. Capetanakis' poems were written close οn half a century ago. The best οf them, and this in the end may mean nο more than four or five, have not dated, or lost any of that strange, concentrated power of which Edith Sitwell speaks in her introduction. They have withstood the test of time, and will ensure for their author a place among the few poets who in the twentieth century have made a lasting contribution to the rich heritage of English poetry. (from the foreword of Philip Sherrard)","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84974.jpg","isbn":null,"isbn13":null,"ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":38,"publication_year":1987,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"3.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84974,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-isles-of-greece.json"},{"id":82935,"title":"Road to Rembetika","subtitle":"Music of a Greek Sub-Culture Songs of Love, Sorrow and Hashish","description":"Rembetika, the music which began in the jails and hashish-dens of Greek towns and became the popular bouzouki music of the 30's, 40's and 50's, has many parellels with American blues. Like the blues, the rembetika songs were the soul music of a group of people who felt themselves to be outside the mainstream of society , who developed their own slang and their own forms of expression. \"Road to rembetika\" is the first book in English to attempt a general survey of the world of the \"rembets\", who smoked hashish while they played the bouzouki and danced the passionate \"zembekiko\" to release their emotions. It is an enthusiastic introduction to the subject, written by an Australian musician who first came to Greece in 1965 and has been interested in Greek music ever since. Gail Holst describes her own initiation into rembetika, outlines its historical and sociological background, its musical characteristics and instrumentation. The second part of the book is a collection of rembetika songs translated into English. The text is illustrated with photographs of the period, musical examples and original manuscripts of the songs. \u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84969.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-07-8","isbn13":"978-960-7120-07-6","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":181,"publication_year":1994,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"11.0","price_updated_at":"2009-06-15","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84969,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/road-to-rembetika.json"},{"id":82926,"title":"Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village","subtitle":null,"description":"This book distils the author's experience, as a young traveller and later an anthropologist, of a way of life which, although seen here in a Greek context, was in its essentials once common throughout the world. Simple archetypal houses, terraced fields and plunging forests, the love of land and family, unceasing labour, a vivid communal life, and a continual drama of jokes and quarrels formed the texture of Greek village life for centuries until the changes of the last decades. The author has shown how the spiritual vision which evolved in these elemental conditions shaped people of great social dexterity, intuitive symbolic perception, and immense strength of character; and the result is not simply a work of scholarship, but the record of an inner journey.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84960.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-05-1","isbn13":"978-960-7120-05-2","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":296,"publication_year":1994,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"15.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84960,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/portrait-of-a-greek-mountain-village.json"},{"id":82961,"title":"The Corfu Years","subtitle":"A Chronicle Presented Through his Letters and Journals","description":"Edward Lear first visited Corfu in 1848 and the island seems to have made a deep impression οn him. At all events, he returned in 1855, after further travels in Greece, Albania, Egypt and elsewhere; and for the next years Corfu was to provide him with the nearest he got to at least a winter base until he finally settled at San Remo in 1870. Lear's Corfu years coincide with the last years of the British Protectorate (the Ionian Islands were ceded to Greece in 1864 ); and his letters and journals written οn Corfu, from which the text of this book is composed, form a commentary, as unique as it is biting and poignant, οη the modes, manners and mentality of a mid-nineteenth century British colonial and garrison society .They also present a deeply moving account of an artist battling with his solitude and relentlessly pursuing his vocation in a world with whose values he is so much at odds. \u003cbr\u003eSet over against this is the incredible and then undevastated natural beauty of the island itself, a beauty to which Lear responds with his whole being and of which he gives us unforgettable testimony not only in his writings but also and above all in the many water-colours and sketches that accompany the text and that include some of his finest work. Αn introduction outlines the historical and social background of Lear's Corfu world, and offers a portrait of Lear himself, while an appendix assesses his achievement as a landscape painter. ","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84996.jpg","isbn":null,"isbn13":null,"ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":247,"publication_year":1988,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"30.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":null,"availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84996,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-corfu-years.json"}]