It is A.D. 274. Emperor Lucius Domitus Aurelianus rules the Roman Empire with the belief that no one is mightier than he and his gods. Kings tremble before him, and his subjects worship him as a new Jupiter, who holds the lives of men and nations in his hand. The “Roman Peace” means prosperity, security and happiness to the noble families of Rome.

The essays in this book are an attempt to indicate, through the lives and writings of Greeks themselves, something of their quality, as well as of the complexity of the forces (historical, cultural, social )which have helped to shape them.

An anthology in Greek and English covering the full range of the poet's work.

On a stony and arid hillside of Attica the Harvard university professor, town planner of international renown, and horticulturist Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-83) chose to make a garden.

Rembetika, Greece's urban folk music, which became the basis for its present day popular bouzouki music, could be paralleled to the blues of America.

Rembetika, Greece' s urban folk music, which became the basis for its present day popular bouzouki music, could be paralleled to the blues of America.

The seventeen poems in this monograph (written in English by the philosopher and literary critic Demetrios Capetanakis, who died in London of an incurable disease in 1944 at the age of 32) are described by John Lehmann as "one of the most astonishing literary achievements I have ever come across". Introduction by Edith Sitwell

Rembetika, Greece's urban folk music, which became the basis for its present day popular bouzouki music, could be paralleled to the blues of America.

This is the only selection available in English of the essays of one of Greece's major poets, the nobel prize winner George Seferis.

This absorbing book presents the picture of Greece from the fall of Constantinople to the arrival of Byron as seen through the eyes of English poets, essayists and travellers, and shows that "philhellenism" has a much longer history than most people realize.

An anthology selected by Philip Sherrard, with photographs by Dimitri. For Philip Sherrard the enigma of Greece has been virtually a lifelong preoccupation.

The years that Lear spent on Corfu coincide with the last years of the British Protectorate and the text of this book forms a unique commentary on the modes, manners and the mentality of a mid-19th century British colonial and garrison society.

Angelos Sikelianos (1884-1951) was one of the major Greek poets of the 20th century.

The author is generally acknowledged to be the most important living man of letters in Greece.

Poems by C. P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis and Nikos GatsosThis anthology brings together a selection from the work of five of the most well known Greek poets of the 20th century whose writing is remarkable for both its scope and vigour. The poems have been chosen as most representative of the poets' best work.

A stirring historical novel from Greece set in the time of the early martyrs (A.D. 303).

Dionysius Solomos (1798- 1857), who is often given the epithet of father of modern Greek poetry, endeavoured to forge an ideal for Greek poetry and for the Greek people that should be an expression of the highest purposes his spirit could conceive. This study of Solomos's life and work is written in a style that is acute and clear, and set off with a well-tempered wit.

Modern Greek poetry has behind it the awe-inspiring worlds of ancient Greece and Byzantium as well as the centuries old tradition of folk song and ballads.

Fascinating for the student of Aegean history or of the contemporary, but now disappearing, Mediterranean way of life.