Herodotus

The summer Mary was thirteen she lived at Jedburgh and there, from her Liberal uncle Thomas Somerville , found her first significant intellectual encouragement: for the first time in my life, I met ....

Her father's name, Skamandronymos in the account given by Herodotus , is also given in many other forms.

Influenced by Samuel Beckett 's Malone Dies, this novel perpetually delays action: We'll go on as if. As if for instance I were someone else, Cassandra perhaps. Mira Enketei (from the Greek...

With Herodotus and Thucydides among her guides, she aims to recuperate the ancient Greek civilisation.

The cloth cover features embossed coloured illustrations: on the front a frowning man wears a huge green turban; on the spine an open palm receives a coin. An opening quotation from the colonial administrator Lord Milner

These poems look at human relationships in the contexts of the present-day family and of the historical clashing and mixing of different cultures: the Minoan, Greek, Venetian, and Turkish influences on modern Crete. They broach...