This volume explores the complicated relationship between the idea of classical Greece and the messy, Mediterranean reality of a country unsure of its place in the world. Modern Greece is the strangest nation in Europe, insisting on its privileged place as the "cradle of democracy", while offering a less-than-perfect form of democracy to its own minorities and its female population. This is the country that turned itself upside down over the adoption of the name of "Macedonia" by a former Yugoslav republic, as though Alexander the Great's nationality were a matter of extreme contemporary urgency. Patricia Storace begins by telling of her first day in Greece. She brings to bear on modern Greece a deep knowledge of the classics, of the Greek myths and of Greek Christianity. She is the author o f "Heredity", a book of poems.
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It dances easily into historic time past, personal time present, the calendar of the still shapely Greek year, the deepest meanings of language. * Guardian * She writes with the love that it is, even amid exasperation, impossible not to feel for this extraordinary people... haunting and beautifully written. * New York Review of Books *
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 130 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
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978-1-86207-052-3 (9781862070523)
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Patricia Storace is a poet and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and Conde Nast Traveller. She is the author of Dinner with Persephone, a travel book hailed as one of the finest ever written about Greece. She lives in New York.
