Princeton Modern Greek Studies

The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis Nikos Kazantzakis

The life of Nikos Kazantzakis—the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ—was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and...

The Enlightenment as Social Criticism: Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century Paschalis M. Kitromilides

In eighteenth-century Greek culture, Iosipos Moisiodax (c.1725-1800) was a controversial figure, whose daring pronouncements in favor of cultural change embroiled him in ideological conflicts and made him a target of persecution. The...

The Muslim Bonaparte: Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece K. E. Fleming

Ali Pasha of Ioannina (?1750-1822), the Ottoman-appointed governor of the northern mainland of Greece, was a towering figure in Ottoman, Greek, and European history. Based on an array of literatures, paintings, and musical scores, this...

Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean Molly Greene

A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants shifts attention to the...

Kazantzakis, Volume 1: Politics of the Spirit Peter Bien

"No author who lives in Greece," writes Peter Bien, "can avoid politics." This first volume of his major intellectual biography of Nikos Kazantzakis approaches the distinguished--and controversial--writer by describing his struggle with...

Kazantzakis, Volume 2: Politics of the Spirit Peter Bien

Putting Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis's vast output into the context of his lifelong spiritual quest and the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Greece, Peter Bien argues that Kazantzakis was a deeply flawed genius--not always...

Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border Sarah F. Green

Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps"--places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an iconic example of this in...

A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean Molly Greene

Here Molly Greene moves beyond the hostile "Christian" versus "Muslim" divide that has colored many historical interpretations of the early modern Mediterranean, and reveals a society with a far richer set of cultural and social...

After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960 Edited by Mark M. Mazower

This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country...

Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece Gonda A.H. Van Steen

Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides the first critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright in modern Greek culture, explaining...

The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation Andrew Horton

Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public. In the first book in English to focus on...

Cavafy's Alexandria: Expanded Edition Edmund Keeley C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In...

George Seferis: Collected Poems - Revised Edition George Seferis
Edited by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's...

In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island Shrine Jill Dubisch

In a Different Place offers a richly textured account of a modern pilgrimage, combining ethnographic detail, theory, and personal reflection. Visited by thousands of pilgrims yearly, the Church of the Madonna of the Annunciation on the...

The Fourth Dimension Yannis Ritsos
Translated by Peter Green and Beverly Bardsley

In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the...

Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture Charles Stewart

In present-day Greece many people still speak of exotikNB--mermaids, dog-form creatures, and other monstrous beings similar to those pictured on medieval maps. Challenging the conventional notion that these often malevolent demons...

Contested Identities: Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece Edited by Peter Loizos and Evthmios Papataxiarchis

In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. Exploring the ways...

Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece Jane K. Cowan

Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation. Here Jane Cowan explores how the politics of gender is...

Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement Loring M. Danforth

"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious...