What price honour? & The Convict - Konstantinos Theotokis

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What price honour? & The Convict - Konstantinos TheotokisThis is the first English translations of What price honour? and The Convict translated by J. M. Q. Davies. To read the two novellas in this volume is, not just to be taken to a historical and literary past worth knowing in its own right, but to be put in contact with a powerful vein of writing which continues to ramify more than a century on. Konstantinos Theotokis, a Corfiot aristocrat turned socialist, writing on the threshold of the modern era as

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including the tragedy of Dido and Aeneas' visit to the underworld

Τραγουδιού που πιέζει να το πεις

a senator under the Flavian emperors

and religious context of fifth century Athens

and biographies on Roman writers

Virgil uses ekphrasis—a self-contained aside that generates a pause in the narrative to describe a work of art or other object—to tell us something about the grander text in which it is embedded

particularly regarding shared story-patterns and ritual activity

that more sombre meanings may lie beneath the surface of this beautifully constructed little masterpiece

Hera suspects that Zeus might be just as ruthless and cruel as the father they betrayed

Ας δώσει λοιπόν ο αναγνώστης όποιο όνομα θέλει στους ήρωες αυτής της ιστορίας κι ας ζήσει για λίγο τη ζωή τους

the Greek text accompanied by a very abbreviated critical apparatus

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