Greece

From The Saviors of God (1927; English 1960):

"We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have
named this circle God. We might have given it any other name
we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light,
Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval, life."

Greece has an exquisite modern philosophical background. Wherever you go, each island or mountain you visit, you will discover a very singular moral status. Sometimes, Greece is incongruous with the characterisation " a
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The Black Orchid
I, Medusa
The Fury
The Island of Missing Trees
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
The Little Liar
Ariadne
Stone Blind
Clytemnestra
Vacation Wars
One of the Girls
Before We Were Innocent
Glorious Exploits
Elektra
No Friend to This House
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Song of Achilles
Circe
Zorba the Greek
Corelli’s Mandolin
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
The Histories
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Republic
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
The Island
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
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YA Books Greek Editions
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The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Last Olympian by Rick RiordanThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick RiordanThe Sea of Monsters by Rick RiordanThe Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
Modern Adaptations of Greek Mythology
371 books — 547 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Last Olympian by Rick RiordanThe Sea of Monsters by Rick RiordanThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick RiordanThe Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
YA Books on Greek Mythology
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Z213 by Dimitris LyacosLucky by Scott NelsonYouth Without God by Ödön von HorváthThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyOjo por ojo by J.K. Franko
Around the World Literature
302 books — 135 voters

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. MaasThe Goddess Test by Aimee CarterGoddess of Spring by P.C. CastPersephone by Kaitlin BevisRadiant Darkness by Emily Whitman
Hades and Persephone
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Homer
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
Homer, The Iliad

Roman Payne
Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties? ...more
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