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10. GEORGE SEFERIS 1900-71
Greece's first Nobel Laureate was born in Smyrna, which was later claimed by Tur-
key, and his lyrical poetry is inspired by history and feelings of exile. His work also
relates Greece's Classical past to its raw present, as in Mythistorema , a series of
poems that draw from The Odyssey .
Top 10 Tomes
Top 10 Tomes
1. The Iliad , Homer
One small episode in the Trojan War, told in the greatest epic ever written.
2. The Odyssey , Homer
Odysseus's adventures with sirens, nymphs and Cyclops on his way home from
Troy.
3. The Oresteia , Aeschylus
Brilliant trilogy about the House of Atreus, the most dysfunctional family in an-
cient Greece.
4. The Theban Tragedies , Sophocles
Terrible events unfold when Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother.
Read on a visit to Delphi and Thebes.
5. Republic , Plato
Still the blueprint for the best way to run a government.
6. Constitution of Athens , Aristotle
A work that marries the democratic political structure of Athens with the archi-
tectural structure of the Agora.
 
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