Croix provides a new and insightful account of the major institutions, social groups, and historical developments of some 1,400 years of Greco-Roman civilization,... and the result... is not only one of the finest studies on classical society to date but also a major contribution to historical sociology." ~ American Journal of Sociology "A landmark in the field of ancient history.... The ancient historian who fails to consult it will do so at his peril." ~ Bernard Knox, The New Republic "This book is one of the most exciting, provocative, and challenging works on ancient history to have appeared in recent times and is of immense importance to all historians of the Graeco-Roman world.... Because of the great wealth of insights brought to bear on a multiplicity of topics, no one in the future will be able to neglect the book and its major theme, the exploitation by a propertied elite of the bulk of the ancient population." ~ American Journal of Philology

    It is drawn from all periods of his distinguished career and traces his development from early surrealism, in which he transforms French influence into a distinct personal voice and mythology, through the dramatic style of The Axion Esti with its blend of spirituality and earthiness, up to the later work in which he experiments with new modes for expressing his perennial themes. The poems are chosen, introduced and mainly translated by the leading translators of modern Greek poetry, Edmund Keeley and the late Philip Sherrard, whose collaborations also included translations of Seferis, Cavafy and Sikelianos. Other contributors to the book include George Savidis, Nanos Valaoritis and John Stathatos.

    The poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English and that are also representative of the best work of the original poets.C. P. Cavafy and Angelos Sikelianos are major poets of the first half of the twentieth century. George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, who followed them, both won the Nobel Prize in literature. Nikos Gatsos is a very popular translator, lyricist, and critic.

    

    To the Greeks he was already a legendary figure. He had been imprisoned and tortured for his political beliefs, his music had been banned, his concerts broken up by right-wing gangs. He was a member of parliament, the leader of a powerful youth movement and the most popular composer in the country. Gail Holst, who played in Theodorakis's orchestra in 1975, first became associated with the composer through her work with Greek-Australian anti-Junta organizations. Since then she has followed Theodorakis's career and musical development closely. The result is a detailed study of the music of Theodorakis and of the complex interrelationship between his music and Greek society and politics.

    Petsas, Former Director of Antiquities at Delphi.

    From aristocratic St Petersburg, where beautiful young Marina was the toast of society, and victim of a nobleman’s perverse desires...to the trackless Russian forests, where a dashing rebel chieftain taught her to live and love beyond the law...to the blood-soaked battlefields of Europe, where passion flamed wildly in the shadows of savagery...to the flesh markets of Constantinople, where Marina struck a devil’s bargain, offering her body for her life...to Paris, city of light and darkness, where Marina had to choose between the man she had always loved and the master manipulator who had made her his slave...

    Forced into a loveless marriage to a sadistic Chinese nobleman, Lydia escapes her cruel confines and flees to San Francisco, only to meet the man she once trusted with her life. A man who now threatens to destroy the cosmetics empire she has established and rules with an iron hand.For in the secret corner of her heart, lovely Lydia harbors a dream -- the unfulfilled promise of a passion that burned all too briefly for a handsome Scots trader with the blackest of souls. A man who tempted her with his fiery kisses, then left her brokenhearted and betrayed. A man who would one day learn that Lydia's love was far stronger than his lust...could she but find her way back into his arms again.