Aiora Books

Aiora Books Aiora Press is an independent Greek publishing house.

Its catalogue includes books offering a fresh perspective in Politics, History, Social Science, Languages, Literature, Theatre, Health, Eastern Philosophy, Children's Books. Aiora also publishes important works of ancient and modern Greek literature translated in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Russian.

🌲Looking for the perfect stocking fillers?📜 The Pocket Greek Library offers the wisdom of Ancient Greece to discerning r...
20/12/2024

🌲Looking for the perfect stocking fillers?

📜 The Pocket Greek Library offers the wisdom of Ancient Greece to discerning readers.

🇬🇧 Available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers.

🇬🇷 Find them at our bookshop on Mavromichali 11 and bookshops around Greece

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"Happiness is not a comfortable state of well-being, but an energetic and carefully considered endeavour to lead a rich ...
18/12/2024

"Happiness is not a comfortable state of well-being, but an energetic and carefully considered endeavour to lead a rich and meaningful life."

📖 'On Happiness: Nicomachean Ethics Book X' by Aristotle is a bilingual edition translated by H. Rackham. With an introduction by Piet Gerbrandy.

Available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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We love seeing Aiora books in your Greek Library 📚What would you add?📖 Aiora books are available now from all reputable ...
16/12/2024

We love seeing Aiora books in your Greek Library 📚

What would you add?

📖 Aiora books are available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers.

🇬🇷If you're in Greece, find them in bookstores and museum shops around the country, including at the Aiora Bookshop, Mavromichali 11

📚 For more information, head to www.aiorabooks.com

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🎅🎄Join us on Saturday 14th, December between 12-17:00 for the Aiora Christmas Party! 📍Mavromichali 11, Exarchia!🎉 Lookin...
12/12/2024

🎅🎄Join us on Saturday 14th, December between 12-17:00 for the Aiora Christmas Party!

📍Mavromichali 11, Exarchia!

🎉 Looking forward to seeing you all!

On December 10th, 1963, the Greek poet George Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature📷 Seferis' Nobel Prize i...
11/12/2024

On December 10th, 1963, the Greek poet George Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

📷 Seferis' Nobel Prize is displayed at / The Ghika Gallery.

📖 'Novel and Other Poems' by George Seferis is translated by Roderick Beaton and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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🎵 Not sure what to get the musicophile in your life? 'Greek Folk Songs' and 'Rebetika' make the perfect gifts for the bu...
09/12/2024

🎵 Not sure what to get the musicophile in your life?

'Greek Folk Songs' and 'Rebetika' make the perfect gifts for the burgeoning musical poet.

📖 'Rebetika: Songs from the Old Greek Underworld' is edited by Katharine Butterworth and Sara Schneider

📖 'Greek Folk Songs' is translated by Joshua Barley, with an introduction by A. E. Stallings.

Both titles are available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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Like the constellations in the sky, words such as ‘aphrodisiac’, ‘hubris’, ‘museum’, ‘galaxy’ and ‘mentor’ each contain ...
06/12/2024

Like the constellations in the sky, words such as ‘aphrodisiac’, ‘hubris’, ‘museum’, ‘galaxy’ and ‘mentor’ each contain within them a story, if only you knew to look closely. This collection retells the myths behind common words and expressions in English, bringing to life the heroes, monsters and gods whose deeds and battles have left a hidden mark on our language.

Compiling more than seventy-five myths, the stories in this book feature well-known figures such as Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Hercules, Achilles, the Amazons, Medusa and the Minotaur. The entries are supplemented with original illustration reproductions of scenes from ancient pottery, and include translations from Ancient Greek epics such as the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Argonautica and Theogony.

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📖 'Myths Behind Words: Greek Mythology in English Words and Expressions' is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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🇬🇷 With Christmas right around the corner, why not treat the Philhellene in your life to a title from the Pocket Greek L...
04/12/2024

🇬🇷 With Christmas right around the corner, why not treat the Philhellene in your life to a title from the Pocket Greek Library?

🏛 From Aristotle to Plato, the series brings you the greatest from Ancient Greek thought.

📖 'Words of Wisdom from Ancient Greece'

📖 'Myths Behind Words'

📖 'On Happiness' by Aristotle

📖 'Manual on the Art of Living' by Epictetus

📖 'The Golden Verses' by Pythagoras

📖 'In Pursuit of Pleasure' by Epicurus

📖 'The Apology of Socrates' by Plato

Available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers.

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🎅 Christmas is coming. Not sure what to get the philhellene in your life?📚 Treat them to a Modern Greek Classic:The MODE...
02/12/2024

🎅 Christmas is coming. Not sure what to get the philhellene in your life?

📚 Treat them to a Modern Greek Classic:

The MODERN GREEK CLASSICS series highlights the most significant Greek writers, poets, and works of literature since the nineteenth century in translation—a tour of different forms, authors and periods of modern Greek literature.

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Greek Folk Songs or Greek Folk Tales?"I was visited by a friend of the modern Greeks, who had with him some folk songs o...
29/11/2024

Greek Folk Songs or Greek Folk Tales?

"I was visited by a friend of the modern Greeks, who had with him some folk songs of that people, the most beautiful of all known to us from the point of view of lyric, dramatic and epic poetry. Yet these are folk songs!"
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [letter to his son, 1815]

📖 'Greek Folk Songs' is translated by Joshua Barley, with an introduction by A. E. Stallings

Greek folk tales descend from Aesop and Greek antiquity, as well as medieval storytelling in the pivotal south-east Mediterranean world that linked Christianity, Islam and Byzantium.

📖 'Greek Folk Tales' is translated by Alexander Zaphiriou

Both titles are available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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Delve into Ancient Greek Philosophy with Plato's 'The Apology of Socrates':In the spring of 399 BCE, when Socrates was s...
27/11/2024

Delve into Ancient Greek Philosophy with Plato's 'The Apology of Socrates':

In the spring of 399 BCE, when Socrates was seventy years old, he was accused of impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens.
His defence speech, as reproduced in Plato ’s most celebrated work, The Apology, stands throughout the ages as a beacon of moral
integrity, democracy and justice.

📖 'The Apology of Socrates' by Plato is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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"The journey of Odysseus - whose name I happen to have been given - never ends, it would seem. And that is fortunate. On...
25/11/2024

"The journey of Odysseus - whose name I happen to have been given - never ends, it would seem. And that is fortunate. One of our greatest contemporary poets told us that the deepest meaning of the journey isn't the arrival in Ithaca, which is a finishing, an end: it's the journey itself; the adventures and the learning."

📖 Odysseus Elytis in 'In the Name of Luminosity and Transparency'. Available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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🪐 Did you know 'planet' is a Greek word? You might be surprised by just how many English words have Greek roots!📖 Discov...
22/11/2024

🪐 Did you know 'planet' is a Greek word?

You might be surprised by just how many English words have Greek roots!

📖 Discover more in 'Myths Behind Words: Greek Mythology in English Words and Expressions'

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📅 10 years ago this week, was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature for 'God is My Witness'Set on the eve of ...
20/11/2024

📅 10 years ago this week, was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature for 'God is My Witness'

Set on the eve of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the novel's protagonist, Chrysovalantis—a chronically unsuccessful but enthusiastic employee of the publishing industry—has been put out of work yet again. He begins a vitriolic monologue, taking aim at his many persecutors, from cruel bosses to opportunistic women to embar­rassing, crippling illnesses. An ageing relic of a bygone era, hounded by the challenges of a fast-changing city, he nonetheless sees the irony of his plight. Vice-ridden yet God-fearing, family-loving yet swindled even by his own sisters, this repentant anti-hero will set his record straight once and for all. And God is his witness.

📖 'God is My Witness' by Makis Tsitas is translated by Joshua Barley and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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Aiora Books spotted in Rhodes by 📚🇬🇷📖 'Myths Behind Words: Greek Mythology in English Words and Expressions' is availab...
18/11/2024

Aiora Books spotted in Rhodes by 📚🇬🇷

📖 'Myths Behind Words: Greek Mythology in English Words and Expressions' is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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"As you set out for Ithaca,hope that the journey is a long one,full of adventures, full of learning."📖 'Selected Poems' ...
15/11/2024

"As you set out for Ithaca,
hope that the journey is a long one,
full of adventures, full of learning."

📖 'Selected Poems' of Cavafy is translated by David Connolly and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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"Rebetika (Songs From the Greek Underworld) edited by Katharine Butterworth & Sara Schneider: My favorite of the two, th...
13/11/2024

"Rebetika (Songs From the Greek Underworld) edited by Katharine Butterworth & Sara Schneider: My favorite of the two, this collection curated lyrics, music, drawings of dances, glossaries (and the like), as well as essays, to give readers a sense of Greece’s “misfits,” the manges/rebetes, who were most prominent from the 20’s-50’s. The songs chronicled deal with violence, death, s*x & love, he**in addiction, hash dens, and all sorts of sordid topics. Aside from the supplemental material, the lyrics are fairly sparse, and with the original Greek on one page and its English equivalent on the next, this title is easy to breeze through. Check it out!"



📖 'Rebetika: Songs from the Old Greek Underworld' is edited by Katharine Butterworth and Sara Schneider. Available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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"Had a 6 hour long boat ride today, so I decided to read some books to pass the time…Greek Folk Tales edited by Alexande...
11/11/2024

"Had a 6 hour long boat ride today, so I decided to read some books to pass the time…

Greek Folk Tales edited by Alexander Zaphiriou: Everyone is familiar with Greek Mythology or even Aesop’s Fables, but this collection showcases other fantastical stories that explain things or teach lessons, that are often overlooked. Most of the entries in here are fairly lighthearted, even when things take a twisted turn, which makes for a fun time. It’s interesting to see the tales the narrator/storyteller inserts themselves in and the ones they don’t. Not sure if there’s a rhyme or reason. The stories with talking animals are typically shorter and more memorable. I love discovering more about a place and its people through art, and there’s no better medium than folk tales."



📖 'Greek Folk Tales' is translated by Alexander Zaphiriou and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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On Saturday, November 2, the work of the C. P. Cavafy will spring back to life at the #OnassisStegi Main Stage through the melodies of Dimitris Papadimitriou in a version for an eleven-piece chamber orchestra with original and new vocal interpretations. Singing and performing: @giota_negka_official, @artemisbogri, @babis_velissarios, @veronica.davaki, @emilianos_stamatakis, and @constantinemarkoulakisofficial. Dimitris Papadimitriou – C. P. Cavafy | “an Alexandrian writing on an Alexandrian” | 02.11.2024 | Main Stage | 20:30 Last tickets available from @onassis.stegi 📖 'Selected Poems' by Cavafy is translated by David Connolly and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers #onassis #cavafy #concert

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