A treasure of wise and practical quotes to empower you to turn your dream into reality. An ideal guide for self-motivation and personal development. Although over two milleniums have passed since the golden Age of Greece, the legacy of the ancient Greek Philosophers can still inspire, motivate and empower us to follow through our unique life purpose and turn it into reality.

You Can Realize Your Dream With Help from the Greek Philosophers

Self-Help

Agio, Alkistis

Motivational

Attica Editions

The ambition and purpose of this book is to examine some ideas of Eastern religions that have influenced Seferis and many other writers in the last two hundred years. In order to discover the source of these ideas it was necessary for the author to study these religions: Hinduism,Buddhism, and especially Zen Buddhism. While studying them, Madias learned why Seferis believed that the "illiterate" is often closer to the truth and reality, why he appreciated insignificant things earthy things - and why he was searching for the balance of matter and spirit.

George Seferis: The Strong Wind from the East

Literature & Fiction

Madias, Markos

History & Criticism

This unique bilingual anthology presents the achievements of Greek poetry in the 20th century. Included are 109 poets and 456 poems, with the Greek original and the English translation on opposite pages. Included are the internationally recognized C.P. Cavafy, the Nobel Prize winners George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, as well as all the major Greek poets of the 20th century. Many of the poems in the Greek original and many translations are published for the first time. The four editors, all award winning authors and translators, not only selected the poems but also have translated many of them. In all 63 translators contributede their work to this anthology. Also, included are Kimon Friar’s unpublished corrections/modifications to his original translations.

A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000: Bilingual Edition

Peter Bien

Edmund Keeley

Karen Van Dyck

Peter Constantine

Poetry

Modern Greeks dominate the world's merchant marine; ancient Greeks like Homer's Odysseus sailed the Mediterranean and beyond. But what do we know about shipboard life? Not much. Reading Kavadias fills this emptiness. He spent his adult life sailing world-wide and writing poems about monsoons, cats dying on shipboard, masts snapping in two, dream-girls or disgusting whores on shore, and fleas jumping off one's pubic hair. "In this fo'c'sle," he laments, "I ruined my calm self / and killed my tender childhood soul. / But I never gave up my obstinate dream, / and the sea, when it roars, tells me a lot." Scrupulously translated, these accessible poems will tell landlubbers a lot about life on the winedark sea. -Peter Bien, Translator of Nikos Kazantzakis and Stratis Myrivilis

The Collected Poems of Nikos Kavadias (The Modern Greek Literature Library) (English and Greek Edition)

Holst-Warhaft, Gail

Kavadías, Nikos

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Pathway to the South

Yovanna

Contemporary

"Life in the Tomb" a war novel written in journal form by a sergeant in the trenches, has been the single most successful and widely read serious work of fiction in Greece since its publication in serial form in 1923-1924, having sold more than 80,000 copies in book form despite its inclusion on the list of censored novels under both the Metaxas regime and the German occupation. Published in nearly a dozen translations, it is the first volume of a trilogy containing "The Mermaid Madonna" and "The Schoolmistress with the Golden Eyes, both of which have been available in a variety of languages. "Life in the Tomb" has moments of great literary beauty and of more than one kind of literary power. In 1917, Myrivilis was twenty-five. "Before I entered the trenches I had not the slightest inkling of life's true worth. From now on, however, I shall savour its moments one by one..." This... truthful fiction... [makes] one see... It is antiheroic and completely convincing. - Peter Levi [Peter Bien] has turned a Greek masterpiece into something not much less than an English one. - C.M. Woodhouse, "Times Literary supplement"

Life in the Tomb

Stratis Myrivilis

The beautiful Parsenis sisters led charmed lives. Born into a prosperous Greek American family, Theodora and Nicole have achieved the perfect balance between the old world rich in Greek tradition and the freedom of life in America – or so they thought. But when Theodora marries a rich and handsome man from outside the Greek community, events are set in motion that threaten to disrupt the enchanted circle of the sisters’ lives. As the dramatic plot unfolds, the two young women must confront treachery and corruption – and their own maturing passions – while they struggle to preserve the values they cherish. 
Set in Baltimore, Annapolis, and on the tiny island of Ikaria, Circle Dance gives the reader a view into the lives of a dynamic family which has successfully achieved the American dream without abandoning the customs and traditions handed down through their Greek heritage. Artfully intertwined plots bring generations together in a dance of rejoicing and mourning, loss and healing, that will keep readers enthralled until the last page.

Circle Dance

Constantine, Lynne

Constantine, Valerie

United States

This memoire amusingly relates the story of a family living through the shock of immigration and the struggles of the Great Depression. Mama defies convention in 1931 and goes to work in her husband's restaurant, the Austin Lunch. Located on Chicago's historic but seamy Near West Side, Papa's restaurant becomes an uncertain haven for their two children, Helen and Nicky. Ironically, the restaurant with its parade of assorted inner city characters becomes a proving ground for the children to observe the energy, integrity and courage of their hard working parents during the rough thirties and early forties. The book's authentic sense of time and place warmly records a personal slice of Twentieth Century history through the honest eyes of childhood.

Austin Lunch: Greek-american Recollections

Biographies & Memoirs

Constant, Constance M.

Memoirs

These "vignettes" describe the idiosyncrasies and charm of the modern Greek culture as seen through the eyes of an American woman married to a Greek man. Her vividly illustrated and often amusing vignettes chronicle her journey into the understanding and appreciation of Greece and the Greek people. This book was written with a fresh and descriptive style where the words bring to life the images of family, friends, lore and nature.

Vignettes of Modern Greece

Melissa Orme

Community & Culture

Antonis Samarakis (1919-2003) was modern Greece's most widely translated writer after Nikos Kazantzakis. He published four collections of short stories and two novels beginning in 1954. His novel, To Lathos (The Flaw) has been translated into over twenty languages. Graham Greene called this novel, "A real masterpiece. A story of the psychological struggle between two secret police agents and their suspect told with wit, imagination and quite outstanding technical skill." Arthur Miller wrote that, "The Flaw is a powerful work. I only wish some people who profess democracy would read The Flaw and see what it is they actually support. We are living in a time when words and their substance are very unrelated-to the point of meaninglessness. And this is not only in the question of Greece." Samarakis's short stories were equally well received at home and abroad, and this collection brings together eight of his finest stories including "The Last Participation", "Mama", "The Knife", and "The Passport" which he wrote during the period of the Dictatorship of 1967-75 when he was denied a passport to travel abroad. Table of Contents The Last Participation Anatomy Lesson, Etc. Mama The Last Trick The Knife Against the Grain The Conquest The Passport The Craft and Reality of Antonis Samarakis's The Passport

The Passport And Other Selected Short Stories

Samarakes, Antones

Short Stories & Anthologies

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