Athens
If you are planning to head to the Olympics in Athens, here is what we recommend. Thursday, May 13, 2004 If you are planning to head to the Olympics in Athens, here is what we recommend. Katie O'Brien from Canberra wrote to us asking if she was ... [... more]
Getaway |
Citrus Szechuan Noodle Bowl Sauce
This sweet sauce is served at The Grit Vegetarian Restaurant in Athens, Georgia over pressed, sauteed and seasoned tofu, sauteed red bell peppers, onions and green beans or sugar snap peas and thick canton noodles. They use Sriracha brand hot ... [... more]
International Vegetarian Union |
Teddy Atlas
Teddy Atlas works as a color analyst on ESPN's Friday Night Fights and was boxing commentator for NBC's coverage of the Olympic games in Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004). He is also founder and chairman of the Dr. Theodore A. Atlas Foundation, ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Tony Perrottet
With the summer Olympics' return to Athens, Tony Perrottet delves into the ancient world and lets the Greek Games begin again. The acclaimed author of The ancient Romans were responsible for many remarkable achievements-Roman numerals, straight ... [... more]
Random House |
Hostile Makeover
Wendy Wax began her broadcast career at a tiny radio station in Athens, Georgia, where she chose to attend college after reading Gone With the Wind one too many times. Over the last twenty years she has written and produced a wide range of ... [... more]
Random House |
Aristophanes
A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this ... [... more]
Random House |
Mary Renault
Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, The story of the mythical hero Theseus, slayer of monsters, abductor of princesses and king of Athens. He ... [... more]
Random House |
Philip Gabriel
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen ... [... more]
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Victor Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson was educated at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and received his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University. He farmed full-time for five years before returning ... [... more]
Random House |
The Complete Plays of Sophocles
Sophocles, the Greek tragic dramatist, was born at Colonus near Athens about 496 B.C. Although hopelessness and misfortune plague the characters in his great plays, Sophocles's own life was a long, prosperous one. He was from a good family, well ... [... more]
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Nicholas Sekunda
The cradle of western civilisation, the ancient Greek world, consisted of a series of independent city states some of which, such as Athens and Sparta, became major world powers. This authoritative volume by Nicholas Sekunda covers Greek warfare ... [... more]
Random House |
David Leavitt
Like Wescott's extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging "among the treasures of 20th-century American literature"), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In .. [... more]
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