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Greece--Athens

  • The clouds
    Author:
    Aristophanes
    Summary:

    Today, we tend to picture ancient Greece as a land of togas, lyres, and plenty of philosophical pondering—but even back then, people were annoyed with the likes of Socrates, Plato, and other intellectual blowhards. Brilliant playwright...
  • Outline
    Author:
    Cusk, Rachel
    Summary:

    "Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She...
  • Last of the Amazons
    Author:
    Pressfield, Steven
    Summary:

    In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, king of Athens, journeys to the nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks call Amazons. Theseus enters a forbidden love affair with the Amazon queen, Antiope, and they secretly flee...
  • Assassins of Athens : Andreas Kaldis, book 2
    Author:
    Siger, Jeffrey
    Summary:

    When the body of a boy from one of Greece’s most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens’ worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the Greek Police’s Special Crimes Division is certain there’s a message...
  • A midsummer night's dream
    Author:
    Shakespeare, William
    Summary:

    In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results. In the city, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. Bottom the weaver and his friends rehearse in...
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