The title of this page is, naturally, in homage to Virginia Woolf’s marvellous 1924 essay “On not knowing Greek“. For some time now, my research has been on the poetry and politics of the British in Greece in the 1940s (and beyond). Vaste programme, but a very rewarding one …
News
- Paris-Athènes. Naissance de la Grèce moderne (1675-1919). Musée du Louvres, 30 septembre 2021-7 février 2022
- The Greek Revolution of 1821: Contexts, Scottish Connections, the Classical Tradition (2021 Leventis Conference, Edinburgh, 18-21 November)
‘News that stays news’
- Comme des lions de pierre à l’entrée de la nuit, a documentary film by Olivier Zuchuat about the Greek people interned on the island of Makronnisos 1947-1951. Among them were the poets Yannis Ritsos and Tassos Lividitis.The film is based on the anthology L’Amertume et la pierre, poètes au camp de Makonissos 1947-1951 (Editions ypsilon, Paris, 2013)
- Epitaphios and Romiosini by Yannis Ritsos and the anthology Crisis edited by Dinos Siotis, in bilingual Greek/English versions from Smokestack Books
- Manolis Anagnostakis (1925-2005)
- Angélique Ionatos (1954-2021) on France Culture (podcastable)
Divers
- A wonderful Greek Collection of books translated by Michel Volkovitch and published by publie.net
- A Greek bookshop and publisher in Paris: Desmos
- A French-Greek bookshop in Athens: Lexikopoleio
- Greek associations in Toulouse: Cercle franco-hellénique and Horizons grecs
- J.D. Eisenberg’s Introduction to Modern Greek
- Grèce Hebdo
- Ekathimerini
- Το βημα
- Greek Blogyssey, by John Kittmer, former HM Ambassador to the Greek Republic
- The Benaki Museum, Athens and especially the N. Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery