A thing of beauty: travels in mythical and modern Greece
What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It's now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what's the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these stories ever meant for children? And what's to be seen now at the places where...
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| Zusammenfassung: | What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It's now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what's the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these stories ever meant for children? And what's to be seen now at the places where heroes fought and gods once quarrelled? Peter Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the most famous Greek myths, on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way of seeing what we have done to our world. Fiennes walks through landscapes - stunning and spoiled - on the trail of dancing activists and Arcadian shepherds, finds the 'most beautiful beach in Greece', consults the Oracle, and loses himself in the cities, remote villages and ruins of this storied land |
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Contents Preface I I Half Empty 2 Dream On 29 3 Hope Springs Eternal 55 4 Dead Dog, Happy Dog 79 5 Sweet Release 103 6 Halcyon Days 129 7 ‘It’s Just a Simple Metaphor’ 155 8 Fun and Games 185 9 We Live in Hope 213 Half Full 243 Acknowledgemenb 265 Glossary 267 Permissions 281 Select Bibliography and Resources 283 10 7
Select Bibliography and Resources The majority of everything that was written during the Greek Classical era has been lost, but fear not (or do. . .), plenty has survived. Instead of listing a great slew of books you can easily find elsewhere, I have only included the books that are mentioned in the text, along with a few that I found especially engrossing when I was researching and writing A Thing of Beauty. GREEK (AND ROMAN) SOURCES Where would I start, if I were starting afresh? With Claire Danes reading Emily Wilson’s exhilarating translation of Homer’s The Odyssey. It was written to be heard. I cannot read ancient (or modern) Greek, but I have loved these translations. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides The Greek Plays, trans. M. Lefkowitz, J. Romm, E. Wilson, et al. (New York: Bailamme Books, 2017) Apollodorus The Library of Greek Mythology, trans. R. Hard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) Callimachus The Hymns (find them at the Perseus Digital Library, www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper)
A THING OF BEAUTY 284 Herodotus The Histories, trans. T. Holland (London: Penguin Classics, 2014) Hesiod Theogony and Works and Days, trans. M. L. West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988) Homer The Homeric Hymns, trans. P. McDonald (Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2016) —The Iliad, trans. M. Hammond (London: Penguin Classics, !9б7) —The Odyssey, trans. E. Wilson (New York: W W Norton Company, 2018) Ovid Metamorphoses, trans. D. Raeburn (London: Penguin Classics, 2004) Pausanias Guide to Greece, two vols, trans. P. Levi (London: Penguin Classics, 1971) My guiding light. Pindar Th Compute Odes, trans. A. Verity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) Plato Th Republic, Th Symposium, The Last Days of Socrates and so on (all available at the Perseus Digital Library, www.perseus. tufts.edu/hopper) Plutarch Essays, trans. R. Waterheld (London: Penguin Classics, *992) Sappho Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments, trans. A. Poochigian (London: Penguin Classics, 2009) Trzaskoma, S. M., Smith, R. S. and Brunet, S. Anthology of Classical Myth: Prìmary Sources in Translation (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 2004) Indispensable!
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES 285 MYTHS What is a myth? No one agrees and no one knows. Perhaps sidestep the (sometimes enjoyable, often baffling) debate and enjoy the stories. Although if you are seeking rabbit holes, here is the entrance to a warren. Burkert, W Greek Religion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985) Buxton, R. The Complete World of Greek Mythology (London: Thames Hudson, 2004) A thought-provoking and colour ful introduction. —Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) —Imaginary Greece: the Contexts of Mythology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Calasso, R. The Celestial Hunter (London: Allen Lane, 2020) —The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (London: Penguin Classics, 2019) Encyclopedia of World Mythology (London: Octopus Books, 1975) Fry, S. Mythos: TL· Greek Myths Retold (London: Penguin Books, 2018) Graves, R. The Greek Myth (London: Penguin Books, 2017) First published 1955. Out of favour, more than a bit odd, obses sional even, but worth dipping into. Grimai, P Dictionary of Classical Mythology (London: Penguin Books, 1991) Hamilton, E. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (New York: Meridian, 1989) First published in 1940, still powerful.
շ86 A THING OF BEAUTY Haynes, N. Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (London: Picador, 2020) Hughes, B. Helen of Trey: Goddess, Princess, Whore (London: Jonathan Cape, 2005) Kerényi, C. The Gods of the Greeks (London: Thames Hudson, !95i) —The Heroes of the Greeks (London: Thames Hudson, 1959) Written as though they really exist(ed). Kershaw, S. P. A Brief Guide to the Greek Myth (London: Constable Robinson, 2007) Kirk, G. S. The Nature of Greek Myth (London: Penguin Books, J974) Lancelyn Green, R. The Tale of Troy (London: —Taks of the Greek Heroes Puffin Books, 1958) (London: Puffin Books, 1958) I started here. Marsh, J. Dictionary of Classical Mythology (London: Cassell Co., 1998) Brilliantly concise retellings and reference work. McCaughrean, G. The Orchard Book of Greek Myth (London: Orchard Books, 1992) For children. Morales, H. Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) Segal, R. A. Myth: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) TRAVEL See aho Pausanias in Sources above. Cope, J. The Megalithic European: The 21st Century Travelkr in Prehistoric Europe (London: HarperCollins, 2004)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES 287 Durrell, L. The Greek Islands (London: Penguin Books, 1978) Leigh Fermor, P. Mani (London: John Murray, 1958) —Roumeli (London: John Murray, 1966) Miller, H. The Colossus of Maroussi (London: Penguin Books, *95°) Stuttard, D. Greek Mythology: A Travellers Guidefrom Mount Olympus to Troy (London: Thames Hudson, 2016) HISTORY Beaton, R. Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) —Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation (London: Penguin Books, 2020) Invaluable! Byron, Lord. Selected Letters and JournaL·, ed. L. A. Marchand (London: John Murray, 1982) Cartledge, P. Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) Constantine, D. In the Footsteps of the Gods: Traoelkrs to Greece and die Questfor die Hellenie Ideal (London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2011) Holland, T. Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind (London: Little, Brown, 2019) —Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (London: Litde, Brown, 2005) Meier, C. Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age (London: Pimlico, 2000) Morkot, R. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece (London: Penguin Books, 1996) Peters, C. Byron (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2000)
A THING OF BEAUTY 288 Price, S. and Thonemann, P. The Birth of Classical Europe: A Historyfrom Troy to Augustine (London: Scott, M. Penguin Books, 2011) Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014) Stoneman, R. Land of Lost Gods: The Search for Classical Greece (London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2010) GENERAL Baggini, J. How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (London: Granta Publications, 2018) Cranaki, M. Graeber, D. Greece (Paris: Vista, i960) Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It (London: Hall, E. Penguin, 2019) The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World (London: Vintage, 2015) Head, J. Life Choice: Important Tipsfrom Socrates, Plato and Aristotle (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2020) Higgins, C. It’s All Greek to Me (London: Nietzsche, E Human, All-Too-Human Short Books, 2008) (Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 2008) Watson, L. C. Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) THE EARTH Bradshaw, C. J. A., Ehrlich, E R., Beattie, A., et al., ‘Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future’, Frontiers in Conservation Science, 13 January 2021
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES 289 Goodison, L. Holy Trees and Other Ecological Surprises (London: Just Press, 2010) Especially good on Minoan worship and trees. Harari, Y N. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (London: Vintage Books, 2011) Some perspective. Hoffinan,J. Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places (London: Penguin Books, 2019) Oh let them be left, wildness and wet’! Hughes, D. J. Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) Hunt, A. and Marlow, H. (eds) Ecology and Theology in the Ancient World: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) Klein, N. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (London: Penguin Books, 2015) Lewis, S. L. and Masiin, M. A. The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene (London: Pelican Books, 2018) Rackham, O. Woodlands (London: HarperCollins, 2010) Schama, S. Landscape Memory (London: HarperCollins, 1995) Wallace-Wells, D. The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (London: Penguin Books, 2019) Wilson, E. O. In Search of Nature (London: Penguin Books, 1998) FICTION Barker, P The Süence of the Girls (London: Penguin, 2019) The Trojan War, viscerally recounted by Achilles’ sex slave. Bünyan, J. The Pilgrim’s Progress (London: Penguin Classics, 2008) I’m filing it under fiction, but not everyone would (nor me, once upon a time).
A THING OF BEAUTY 290 Haynes, N. The Children of Jocasta (London: Picador, 2018) Imagine if your parents were Oedipus and Jocasta. Ikonomou, C. Something Will Happen, You’ll See, trans. К. Emmerich (New York: Archipelago Books, 2016) Contemporary Athenian short stories. Funny and sad. Kazantzakis, N. fórba the Greek, trans. C. Wildman (London: Faber Faber, 2016) The sound of plates smashing . . . Malouf, D. An Imaginary Life (London: Chatto Windus, 1978) Ovid in exile, re-imagined. Miller, M. Circe (London: Bloomsbury, 2019) What was she really like, the enchantress who turned Odysseus’ men into swine? O’Brian, P The Ionian Mission (London: HarperCollins, 2003) Peerless, Byron-era shenanigans. Renault, M. The Bullfiom the Sea (London: Virago, 2015) —Firefiom Heaven (London: Virago, 2018) —The King Must Die (London: Virago, 2015) If you only have time for one book of fiction set in ancient Greece, make it something by Mary Renault. I’d start with The King Must Die. —The Persian Boy (London: Virago, 2014) Shelley, M. Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (London: Penguin Books, 2003) Captures the Romantic writers’ excite ment and dread. She was eighteen when she wrote it. Stewart, M. Thu Rough Magic (London: Hodder Stoughton, 1964) Gossamer escapist mystery set in Corfu. Vann, D. Bright Air Black (London: William Heinemann, 2017) The story of Medea and Jason, as it might have been.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES 291 POETRY Benson, E Vertigo Ghost (London: Penguin Books, 2019) Zeus unmasked. Byron, Lord. A Choice of Byron’s Verse, ed. D. Dunn (London: Faber Faber, 1974) Glück, L. The Seven Ages (Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2001) Hughes, T. Talesfrom Ovid (London: Faber Faber, 1997) I adore these retellings of Metamorphoses. Oswald, A. Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad (London: Faber Faber, 2011) A mesmerising catalogue of the dead. Ritsos, Y Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses, trans. E. Keeley (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991) RESOURCES Perseus Digital Library (www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper): Classical texts in Greek, Roman and English, available for free online. Search or browse, just tuck in. The Theoi Project (www.theoi.com): Clear, well-illustrated site for Greek mythology and gods in art and literature. The Theoi Classical Texts Library (www.theoi.com/Library.html): The online library holds ancient Greek and Roman texts in English translation. The Oracle at Delphi (oraclesfromdelphi@gmail.com): It looks rather stark written down like that, but this email address represents the endpoint of some haphazard but dedicated research. Other routes are available . . .
A THING OF BEAUTY 292 Hellenic Society (www.hellenicsociety.org.uk): Devoted to the study of Greece. Events, magazines and a stirring library in central London. Romanticism Blog (www.wordsworth.org.uk/blog): Writings on Keats, Byron and the rest. Hellenion (www.hellenion.org): A US ‘church’ dedicated to the revival and practice of Hellenic polytheism. Newstead Abbey (www.newsteadabbey.org.uk): Once the home of Lord Byron, now open to the public. Archelon: the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece (www. archelon.gr): Save the sea turtles! Volunteers needed. WWF Greece (www.wwf.gr/en): Protect the seas and wild places of Greece! The World Counts (www.theworldcounts.com): Track the number of earths we need to keep up with our annual levels of consumption and waste. |
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Contents Preface I I Half Empty 2 Dream On 29 3 Hope Springs Eternal 55 4 Dead Dog, Happy Dog 79 5 Sweet Release 103 6 Halcyon Days 129 7 ‘It’s Just a Simple Metaphor’ 155 8 Fun and Games 185 9 We Live in Hope 213 Half Full 243 Acknowledgemenb 265 Glossary 267 Permissions 281 Select Bibliography and Resources 283 10 7
Select Bibliography and Resources The majority of everything that was written during the Greek Classical era has been lost, but fear not (or do. . .), plenty has survived. Instead of listing a great slew of books you can easily find elsewhere, I have only included the books that are mentioned in the text, along with a few that I found especially engrossing when I was researching and writing A Thing of Beauty. GREEK (AND ROMAN) SOURCES Where would I start, if I were starting afresh? With Claire Danes reading Emily Wilson’s exhilarating translation of Homer’s The Odyssey. It was written to be heard. I cannot read ancient (or modern) Greek, but I have loved these translations. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides The Greek Plays, trans. M. Lefkowitz, J. Romm, E. Wilson, et al. (New York: Bailamme Books, 2017) Apollodorus The Library of Greek Mythology, trans. R. Hard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) Callimachus The Hymns (find them at the Perseus Digital Library, www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper)
A THING OF BEAUTY 284 Herodotus The Histories, trans. T. Holland (London: Penguin Classics, 2014) Hesiod Theogony and Works and Days, trans. M. L. West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988) Homer The Homeric Hymns, trans. P. McDonald (Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2016) —The Iliad, trans. M. Hammond (London: Penguin Classics, !9б7) —The Odyssey, trans. E. Wilson (New York: W W Norton Company, 2018) Ovid Metamorphoses, trans. D. Raeburn (London: Penguin Classics, 2004) Pausanias Guide to Greece, two vols, trans. P. Levi (London: Penguin Classics, 1971) My guiding light. Pindar Th Compute Odes, trans. A. Verity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) Plato Th Republic, Th Symposium, The Last Days of Socrates and so on (all available at the Perseus Digital Library, www.perseus. tufts.edu/hopper) Plutarch Essays, trans. R. Waterheld (London: Penguin Classics, *992) Sappho Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments, trans. A. Poochigian (London: Penguin Classics, 2009) Trzaskoma, S. M., Smith, R. S. and Brunet, S. Anthology of Classical Myth: Prìmary Sources in Translation (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 2004) Indispensable!
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES 285 MYTHS What is a myth? No one agrees and no one knows. Perhaps sidestep the (sometimes enjoyable, often baffling) debate and enjoy the stories. Although if you are seeking rabbit holes, here is the entrance to a warren. Burkert, W Greek Religion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985) Buxton, R. The Complete World of Greek Mythology (London: Thames Hudson, 2004) A thought-provoking and colour ful introduction. —Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) —Imaginary Greece: the Contexts of Mythology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Calasso, R. The Celestial Hunter (London: Allen Lane, 2020) —The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (London: Penguin Classics, 2019) Encyclopedia of World Mythology (London: Octopus Books, 1975) Fry, S. Mythos: TL· Greek Myths Retold (London: Penguin Books, 2018) Graves, R. The Greek Myth (London: Penguin Books, 2017) First published 1955. Out of favour, more than a bit odd, obses sional even, but worth dipping into. Grimai, P Dictionary of Classical Mythology (London: Penguin Books, 1991) Hamilton, E. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (New York: Meridian, 1989) First published in 1940, still powerful.
շ86 A THING OF BEAUTY Haynes, N. Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (London: Picador, 2020) Hughes, B. Helen of Trey: Goddess, Princess, Whore (London: Jonathan Cape, 2005) Kerényi, C. The Gods of the Greeks (London: Thames Hudson, !95i) —The Heroes of the Greeks (London: Thames Hudson, 1959) Written as though they really exist(ed). Kershaw, S. P. A Brief Guide to the Greek Myth (London: Constable Robinson, 2007) Kirk, G. S. The Nature of Greek Myth (London: Penguin Books, J974) Lancelyn Green, R. The Tale of Troy (London: —Taks of the Greek Heroes Puffin Books, 1958) (London: Puffin Books, 1958) I started here. Marsh, J. Dictionary of Classical Mythology (London: Cassell Co., 1998) Brilliantly concise retellings and reference work. McCaughrean, G. The Orchard Book of Greek Myth (London: Orchard Books, 1992) For children. Morales, H. Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) Segal, R. A. Myth: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) TRAVEL See aho Pausanias in Sources above. Cope, J. The Megalithic European: The 21st Century Travelkr in Prehistoric Europe (London: HarperCollins, 2004)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES 287 Durrell, L. The Greek Islands (London: Penguin Books, 1978) Leigh Fermor, P. Mani (London: John Murray, 1958) —Roumeli (London: John Murray, 1966) Miller, H. The Colossus of Maroussi (London: Penguin Books, *95°) Stuttard, D. Greek Mythology: A Travellers Guidefrom Mount Olympus to Troy (London: Thames Hudson, 2016) HISTORY Beaton, R. Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) —Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation (London: Penguin Books, 2020) Invaluable! Byron, Lord. Selected Letters and JournaL·, ed. L. A. Marchand (London: John Murray, 1982) Cartledge, P. Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) Constantine, D. In the Footsteps of the Gods: Traoelkrs to Greece and die Questfor die Hellenie Ideal (London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2011) Holland, T. Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind (London: Little, Brown, 2019) —Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (London: Litde, Brown, 2005) Meier, C. Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age (London: Pimlico, 2000) Morkot, R. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece (London: Penguin Books, 1996) Peters, C. Byron (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2000)
A THING OF BEAUTY 288 Price, S. and Thonemann, P. The Birth of Classical Europe: A Historyfrom Troy to Augustine (London: Scott, M. Penguin Books, 2011) Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014) Stoneman, R. Land of Lost Gods: The Search for Classical Greece (London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2010) GENERAL Baggini, J. How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (London: Granta Publications, 2018) Cranaki, M. Graeber, D. Greece (Paris: Vista, i960) Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It (London: Hall, E. Penguin, 2019) The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World (London: Vintage, 2015) Head, J. Life Choice: Important Tipsfrom Socrates, Plato and Aristotle (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2020) Higgins, C. It’s All Greek to Me (London: Nietzsche, E Human, All-Too-Human Short Books, 2008) (Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 2008) Watson, L. C. Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) THE EARTH Bradshaw, C. J. A., Ehrlich, E R., Beattie, A., et al., ‘Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future’, Frontiers in Conservation Science, 13 January 2021
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES 289 Goodison, L. Holy Trees and Other Ecological Surprises (London: Just Press, 2010) Especially good on Minoan worship and trees. Harari, Y N. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (London: Vintage Books, 2011) Some perspective. Hoffinan,J. Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places (London: Penguin Books, 2019) Oh let them be left, wildness and wet’! Hughes, D. J. Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) Hunt, A. and Marlow, H. (eds) Ecology and Theology in the Ancient World: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) Klein, N. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (London: Penguin Books, 2015) Lewis, S. L. and Masiin, M. A. The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene (London: Pelican Books, 2018) Rackham, O. Woodlands (London: HarperCollins, 2010) Schama, S. Landscape Memory (London: HarperCollins, 1995) Wallace-Wells, D. The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (London: Penguin Books, 2019) Wilson, E. O. In Search of Nature (London: Penguin Books, 1998) FICTION Barker, P The Süence of the Girls (London: Penguin, 2019) The Trojan War, viscerally recounted by Achilles’ sex slave. Bünyan, J. The Pilgrim’s Progress (London: Penguin Classics, 2008) I’m filing it under fiction, but not everyone would (nor me, once upon a time).
A THING OF BEAUTY 290 Haynes, N. The Children of Jocasta (London: Picador, 2018) Imagine if your parents were Oedipus and Jocasta. Ikonomou, C. Something Will Happen, You’ll See, trans. К. Emmerich (New York: Archipelago Books, 2016) Contemporary Athenian short stories. Funny and sad. Kazantzakis, N. fórba the Greek, trans. C. Wildman (London: Faber Faber, 2016) The sound of plates smashing . . . Malouf, D. An Imaginary Life (London: Chatto Windus, 1978) Ovid in exile, re-imagined. Miller, M. Circe (London: Bloomsbury, 2019) What was she really like, the enchantress who turned Odysseus’ men into swine? O’Brian, P The Ionian Mission (London: HarperCollins, 2003) Peerless, Byron-era shenanigans. Renault, M. The Bullfiom the Sea (London: Virago, 2015) —Firefiom Heaven (London: Virago, 2018) —The King Must Die (London: Virago, 2015) If you only have time for one book of fiction set in ancient Greece, make it something by Mary Renault. I’d start with The King Must Die. —The Persian Boy (London: Virago, 2014) Shelley, M. Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (London: Penguin Books, 2003) Captures the Romantic writers’ excite ment and dread. She was eighteen when she wrote it. Stewart, M. Thu Rough Magic (London: Hodder Stoughton, 1964) Gossamer escapist mystery set in Corfu. Vann, D. Bright Air Black (London: William Heinemann, 2017) The story of Medea and Jason, as it might have been.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESOURCES 291 POETRY Benson, E Vertigo Ghost (London: Penguin Books, 2019) Zeus unmasked. Byron, Lord. A Choice of Byron’s Verse, ed. D. Dunn (London: Faber Faber, 1974) Glück, L. The Seven Ages (Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2001) Hughes, T. Talesfrom Ovid (London: Faber Faber, 1997) I adore these retellings of Metamorphoses. Oswald, A. Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad (London: Faber Faber, 2011) A mesmerising catalogue of the dead. Ritsos, Y Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses, trans. E. Keeley (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991) RESOURCES Perseus Digital Library (www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper): Classical texts in Greek, Roman and English, available for free online. Search or browse, just tuck in. The Theoi Project (www.theoi.com): Clear, well-illustrated site for Greek mythology and gods in art and literature. The Theoi Classical Texts Library (www.theoi.com/Library.html): The online library holds ancient Greek and Roman texts in English translation. The Oracle at Delphi (oraclesfromdelphi@gmail.com): It looks rather stark written down like that, but this email address represents the endpoint of some haphazard but dedicated research. Other routes are available . . .
A THING OF BEAUTY 292 Hellenic Society (www.hellenicsociety.org.uk): Devoted to the study of Greece. Events, magazines and a stirring library in central London. Romanticism Blog (www.wordsworth.org.uk/blog): Writings on Keats, Byron and the rest. Hellenion (www.hellenion.org): A US ‘church’ dedicated to the revival and practice of Hellenic polytheism. Newstead Abbey (www.newsteadabbey.org.uk): Once the home of Lord Byron, now open to the public. Archelon: the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece (www. archelon.gr): Save the sea turtles! Volunteers needed. WWF Greece (www.wwf.gr/en): Protect the seas and wild places of Greece! The World Counts (www.theworldcounts.com): Track the number of earths we need to keep up with our annual levels of consumption and waste. |
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