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"My Greek Taverna" is a book featuring all the dishes you will come across in an authentic Greek taverna and on any family's Sunday table. In its pages you will find 65 recipes divided into categories, listing all the ingredients along with step-by-step instructions to help you bring a traditional Greek dish to life in your own kitchen, tasting exactly as it would in a small taverna by the Aegean Sea. This book has been prepared with the same "ingredients" that each Greek dish contains: love, enthusiasm and respect for tradition. It aspires to evoke fond memories among all Greek food aficionados and provide a mouth-watering reason for anyone to visit or revisit Greece. So, put on your apron, clear your work surface and muster all your passion for food, as you are about to enter a world of unique tastes and magnificent aromas, deriving straight from the Greek seas and countryside.

There are hundreds of Greek islands. Why did Mykonos become, in just a few decades, one of the leading vacation destinations in the world, hosting up to 140,000 visitors on a typical summer day? Part of the answer can be found in these remarkable images, which show the unspoiled beauty - of both the place and its people - that initially attracted artists, writers, and celebrities. Among those early pilgrims was the photographer Robert McCabe. When he first came to Mykonos in the summer of 1955, he was one of perhaps fifteen visitors on the island. There were no cars, no motorbikes, no running water, and little electricity. There was, however, a traditional island culture - with its own dances, songs, poetry, cuisine, textiles, architecture, even language - developed over thousands of years and perfectly adapted to its austere yet beautiful natural setting. It was this culture, and this scenery, that McCabe set himself to document, on that initial journey and on a return visit for the National Geographic Magazine in 1957. In this book, McCabes images re-create a daylong visit to the island as it was: We disembark from a ship in the Old Harbor and are rowed to shore in a small tender. We wander the picturesque streets of Chora (the main town), pausing for breathtaking views of the harbor and watching the inhabitants at their daily tasks: doing their laundry by the shore, delivering well water in a cart, shopping at the grocer's. We venture to Saint Panteleimon Monastery in Marathi, to witness the festivities - with dancing and feasting - that attend the saint's name day and a baptism. We take a caique (a traditional wooden boat) to the neighboring island of Delos - the birthplace of Artemis and Apollo, and the geographic and historical hub of the Cyclades - to see the ruins of its classical heyday. And, at day's end, back aboard ship, we watch the whitewashed walls of Chora slip away into the distance - into memory. Reproduced as full-page tritones of surpassing quality, and accompanied by a sensitive introduction and detailed captions, McCabe's photographs do indeed offer a portrait of a vanished era. This book will fascinate modern-day visitors to Mykonos, as well as those who trace their roots to the Greek islands.

Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the word and established itself as a perennial bestseller in its various available formats: hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, and e-book. For 75 years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Western mythology-from Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom. This exciting new deluxe, large-format hardcover edition, published in celebration of the book's 75th anniversary, will be beautifully packages and fully-illustrated throughout with all-new, specially commissioned four-color art, making it a true collector's item.

The Greek Myths retold . . . ___________No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. We shiver when Pandora opens her jar of evil torments and watch with joy as the legendary love affair between Eros and Psyche unfolds. Mythos captures these extraodinary myths for our modern age - in all their dazzling and deeply human relevance. ___________'Ebullient and funny' The Times'Entertaining and edifying' Daily Telegraph 'A rollicking good read' Independent 'Fry exhibits enormous erudition and enthusiasm' Mail on Sunday'Fry takes us from Zeus to Athena with humour. The Greek gods of the past become relatable as pop culture, modern literature and music are woven throughout. Joyfully informal yet full of the literary legacy' Guardian

This striking comic book collection is the perfect introduction to the world of the gods - containing six tales full of love, loss, greed, envy and bravery.

Journey down to the Underworld with Orpheus and join Theseus in his quest to defeat the dreaded Minotaur. Bursting with detail and humour, James Davies' retelling of the Greek myths will delight readers of all ages.

This brief guide informs the reader about the collections of the National Archaeological Museum and the wealth and variety of its exhibits, which span the long history of the ancient world. Rather than giving detailed descriptions of the various items on display, it gives general information about all the collections, with an emphasis on the way they are presented in the rooms of the Museum. At the same time it illustrates works which are representative of each collection and which bear witness to the artistic quality and value of the exhibits in the largest and most important museum in Greece.

NISIOTIKA is a book about the living tradition of Greek island music. Nisiotika derives from the Greek word for island, nisi, and has come to describe in particular the music and songs that are played and sung at festivals and celebrations on the islands of the Aegean. It is music to be danced to, and, as revealed in this book, in traditional celebrations with live music it is the dancers who call the tune.
The songs tell of the sea and people whose lives are bound up with often dangerous sea trades, of love and of pretty girls, sometimes of historical events, but also of sadness and separation, of women who wait in fear for their husbands and sons to return from long voyages or faraway lands. Most of the songs are not very old and date from probably no earlier than the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, although they borrow musical and poetic motifs from older forms of Greek folk song. Like the rembetika, the songs of the underground and of urban Greece, the nisiotika only became pan-Hellenic music after the islanders emigrated, initially to the US and then later to Athens. It was then that their songs were recorded and a wider audience for their music was created.
Building on the work of pioneering musicologists and through independent research into the songs themselves, recordings and interviews, Gail Holst-Warhaft has turned the same discerning and loving eye on the nisiotika as she did in her now classic book on the rembetika, Road to Rembetika.

This is a reprint of an article published in volume 82/2 of Ekklesiastikos Pharos (Alexandria-Johannesburg, 2000), based on a postgraduate seminar delivered in August 1999 at Rand Afrikaans University (now Johannesburg University), in the seminar room of the Department of Greek and Latin Studies, organized by my host and good friend Professor Benjamin Hendrickx. Its usefulness, resting chiefly on numerous primary sources' printouts in a detailed appendix from the Byzantine History Data Bank programme of the Hellenic Research Foundation at Athens, has been observed by, among others, Johannes Koder, Sergei P. Karpov, the late Angelike E. Laiou and Cecile Morrisson, while Morrisson has also recently utilized it in her monograph on Byzantine money. However, the scarcity in research libraries of the journal where it was originally published warranted a reprint, as observed by several colleagues in recent years and I have decided to republish it as a short monograph. At the end I have also included the entry of mines and quarries ("Bergbau") which I contributed (shortly before completion of the article reprinted here) to the "Lexikon der Byzantinistik" on the invitation of Professor Johannes Irmscher; I have taken the opportunity to publish here the entire text of the entry as originally submitted before the inevitable cut and condensations in such publications.