“A brilliant meditation on language and life.”―Bookriot 
For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. Here are nine ways Greek can transform your relationship to time and to those around you, nine reflections on the language of Sappho, Plato, and Thucydides, and its relevance to our lives today, nine chapters that will leave readers with a new passion for a very old language, nine epic reasons to love Greek. 
The Ingenious Language is a love song dedicated to the language of history’s greatest poets, philosophers, adventurers, lovers, adulterers, and generals. Greek, as Marcolongo explains in her buoyant and entertaining prose, is unsurpassed in its beauty and expressivity, but it can also offer us new ways of seeing the world and our place in it. She takes readers on an astonishing journey, at the end of which, while it may still be Greek to you, you’ll have nine reasons to be glad it is. 
No batteries or prior knowledge of Greek required!

The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

Self-Help

Marcolongo, Andrea

Personal Transformation

Europa Compass

About the Author\nAndrea Marcolongo is an Italian journalist, writer, Classics scholar, and former speech writer for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The Ingenious Language was a bestseller in Italy and in many of the other dozen countries in which it has been published. She is also the author of The Heroic Measure. She lives in Paris, France.\nWill Schutt is the author of Westerly (the Yale Series of Younger Poets) and translator, most recently, of Carlo and Renzo Piano’s Atlantis: A Journey in Search of Beauty, Andrea Marcolongo’s The Ingenious Language, and My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti.\nFrom the best-selling author of The Ingenious Language comes a meditation on rebuilding, recovery, and renewal that is also a fascinating portrait of antiquity’s most complex and surprisingly modern hero. 
In times of peace and prosperity, one can turn to Homer to learn valuable life lessons, to experience the thrills and terrors of war, and to read about hair-raising adventures in distant lands. But when things do not go as planned, when we unexpectedly find ourselves at the center of an epoch-defining upheaval, then, writes Andrea Marcolongo, we must look to Virgil’s Aeneas for an example of adaptability and resilience. 
In Marcolongo’s fresh, nuanced portrayal, Virgil’s Aeneas emerges as a multiform, deeply human hero, striking in his vulnerability and capacity for empathy. His journey of rebirth and rebuilding, from the ruins of Troy to the shores of Italy, teaches us that when all seems lost, with hope, perseverance, and a little bit of luck, we can seek and find new beginnings. 
“Marcolongo is today’s Montaigne…There is wisdom and grace here to last the ages.”—André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name

Starting from Scratch: The Life-Changing Lessons of Aeneas

Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of today's best writers and artists, along with introducing new talent, to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of culture and politics. This inaugural issue of Liberties includes: Michael Ignatieff on liberalism and the environment; Laura Kipnis cheers transgression; David Grossman on literature and peace; Ramachandra Guha on the Indian tragedy; Thomas Chatterton Williams on the real James Baldwin; Mark Lilla on the power of indifference; Helen Vendler on Yeats' The Second Coming; Sean Wilentz on abolition and American origins; Adam Zagajeweski on Gustav Mahler; James Wolcott on America's modern Jacobins; Andrea Marcolongo on how language defines us; Eli Lake on the birth of American unexceptionalism; Sally Satel on the riddle of addiction; Moshe Halbertal on creating a democratic Jewish state; David Thomson on the wonder of Terrence Malick; Julius Margolin's memoir confronting hatred; Clara Collier on plague literature; Shawn McCreesh's personal look at a youthful community of addiction; new poetry from the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Louise Gl ck, Joshua Bennett, and Hannah Sullivan; and, Leon Wieseltier (editor) and Celeste Marcus (managing editor).

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 1

Literature & Fiction

Sullivan, Hannah

Lilla, Mark

GROSSMAN, DAVID

Vendler, Helen

Wilentz, Sean

Glück, Louise

THOMSON, David

IGNATIEFF, Michael

Kipnis, Laura

Collier, Clara

GUHA, RAMACHANDRA

Zagajewski, Adam

Wolcott, James

Margolin, Julius

Halbertal, Moshe

Williams, Thomas Chatterton

Satel, Sally

Bennett, Joshua

Lake, Eli

McCreesh, Shawn

Literary

Liberties Journal Foundation

Lo sappiamo tutti: la prima reazione davanti a un testo in greco antico spazia dalla paralisi al terrore puro. 
Ho scelto nove ragioni per amare e per raccontare ciò che il greco sa dire in modo unico, speciale, diverso da ogni altra lingua – e sì, per spazzar via ogni paura trasformandola forse in passione.\nInnanzitutto questo libro parla di amore: il greco antico è stata la storia più lunga e bella della mia vita. 
Non importa che sappiate il greco oppure no. 
Se sì, vi svelerò particolarità di cui al liceo nessuno vi ha parlato, mentre vi tormentavano tra declinazioni e paradigmi. 
Se no, ma state cominciando a studiarlo, ancora meglio. La vostra curiosità sarà una pagina bianca da riempire. 
Per tutti, questa lingua nasconde modi di dire che vi faranno sentire a casa, permettendovi di esprimere parole o concetti ai quali pensate ogni giorno, ma che proprio non si possono dire in italiano. 
Ad esempio, i numeri delle parole erano tre, singolare, plurale e duale – due per gli occhi, due per gli amanti; esisteva un modo verbale per esprimere il desiderio, l’ottativo, e non esisteva il futuro. Insomma, il greco antico era un modo di vedere il mondo, un modo ancora e soprattutto oggi utile e geniale. 
Non sono previsti esami né compiti in classe: se alla fine della lettura sarò riuscita a coinvolgervi e a rispondere a domande che mai vi eravate posti, se finalmente avrete capito la ragione di tante ore di studio, avrò raggiunto il mio obiettivo.

History & Criticism

La Part du héros: Le mythe des Argonautes et le courage d'aimer

Essays & Correspondence

Este maravilloso libro, la sorpresa editorial del año en Italia, posee el poder de despertar en cualquier persona un interés ins ospechado por el griego antiguo.La lengua de los dioses nos descubre las hermosas curiosidades del griego antiguo-«desde su particularísima manera de concebir el tiempo hasta la expresión del deseo, desde saber expresar el amor hasta la superación de la barrera de los géneros de las cosas y de la vida»- y el modo en que esta lengua es capaz de hablarnos de nosotros mismos y transformar nuestra manera de ver el mundo.«La lengua de los dioses habla de una lengua que no ha dejado nunca de seducir a hombres y mujeres de todas las épocas y de todos los lugares, por su hermosura, su elegancia y sobre todo por su rareza.»El griego es irremediablemente distinto, por eso sentimos una especie de añoranza de él, como si fuera una historia de amor que nunca hemos vivido, sino siempre anhelado.»No importa que conozcáis o no el griego; este libro está dedicado a cualquier ser humano que busque las palabras para hablar de sí mismo en el presente. La lengua de los dioses no es un manual tradicional, un ensayo académico, una clase impartida desde lo alto de una tarima: es una síntesis del alma a través de una lengua antiquísima como la griega que, sin embargo, no ha sido nunca tan moderna.» Andrea Marcolongo La crítica ha dicho... «Apasionante. Marcolongo nos fascina con la rareza del griego clásico, y transforma nueve excentricidades lingüísticas en nueve cuestiones existenciales. Habla de los misterios de la gramática y la sintaxis como si se tratara de un rostro humano o de arquitectura.» Alessandro D'Avenia, Tuttolibri, La Stampa

La lengua de los dioses: Nueve razones para amar el griego

History

Ancient Civilizations

Taurus

Desplazar la luna: Mi noche en el Museo de la Acrópolis

La lingua geniale (Italian Edition)

Laterza

La lingua geniale. 9 ragioni per amare il greco

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