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Zorba the Greek - Nikos KazantzakisThis moving fable sees a young Greek writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a family and many lovers, has fought in the Balkan wars, has lived and loved he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully and without shame. As their friendship develops, he is gradually won over, transformed and inspired along with the reader.

many modern scholars have thought that the Alcibiades is not by Plato and it has therefore lacked a decent commentary

while his wife Penelope is forced to resist the suitors who besiege her on Ithaca

feet and types of metres

whose follower he becomes

half goat and half men

Olympias and King Philip of Macedon

metrical and textual problems to be encountered by the reader

In the poem

One of Socrates' Athenian disciples in his youth

graded in difficulty

In his introduction Mr Macleod examines Homer's notion of poetry

written in the early-2nd century CE