Thoughtful delivery service

Easy 30 day returns

Certified Reviews

Description

Freedom and Death - Nikos KazantzakisFreedom and Death is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam. A new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878, and the island is thrown into confusion yet again. In the village of Megalokastro a Cretan resistance fighter, Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood brother. The life of the local community

conflict and love – in other words

Helen is an extraordinary performance that has disturbed critics because it refuses to conform to their expectations

This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions

these girls have fled from Egypt

yet he never treated it in a complete work

τις περιπέτειες

social and political revolution

στο ίδιο μέρος απ’ όπου ξεκίνησε η οικογένειά της

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day

which explores the culture and achievement of the civilizations of Rome

It elucidates the historical context of the work and the literary artistry of the author

together with the overview in the Introduction

Exchange/Return Notes