Dinner With Persephone: Travels In Greece

Dinner With Persephone: Travels In Greece by Patricia Storace


ISBN
9781862070523
Published
Released
01 / 07 / 2004
Binding
Paperback
Pages
416
Dimensions
130 x 198 x 23mm

Patricia Storace explores the dreams and sensuous realities of a country caught between East and West, with its glorious past and its difficult Balkan present.

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 of Heredity, a book of poems.
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