Hellenic Bookservice

26/07/2024

Looking to refresh your knowledge before ? Look no further than our wide selection of books on the ancient Olympic Games!

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17/07/2024

The Ancients certainly knew a thing or two about life, the universe and everything else for that matter.
Princeton University Press’ “How to…” books of ancient wisdom will give you all you need to know.

03/07/2024

08/06/2024

👉Book-loving people! Here is a new one for you: Cypria- A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean -A Gripping New History of Cyprus by British Cypriot writer Alex Christofi. He writes a deeply personal, lyrical history of the island of Cyprus, from the era of goddesses and mythical beasts to the present day.
Hardback £20
https://www.hellenicbookservice.com/asp/detail_sql.asp?ID=26396

22/05/2024

New in stock!! An amazing tea towel from The Muddy Archaeologist aka Gillian Hovell. High quality material and full of Ancient Greece's timeline, alphabet, dates and Greek writers - poets, philosophers, playwrights, historians, maths, medicine, geography and more. Only £9
https://www.hellenicbookservice.com/asp/detail_sql.asp?ID=26394

04/05/2024

The Greek community will be celebrating Easter tomorrow, 5th of May. We would like to wish you all Καλό Πάσχα! May your celebrations be joyful, blessed and peaceful. 🌺🌸🌼

30/04/2024

Good morning to all you readers out there.

Hope we are all well today.

Please visit our wonderful independent bookshop sometime soon, who knows what is waiting for you to buy, browse, order.

Established in 1966 originally to serve the Greek community in Central London, where the largest collection of Classics and Modern Greek books in the world can be found.

https://www.hellenicbookservice.com/

Our Classics department covers ancient history, culture, mythology, religion, as well as literature.

We have books for learning Latin and Classical Greek, teaching aids, posters, covers.

Our Modern Greek department covers all subjects, from travel, cookery and children's books to literature, history, games and DVDs. We also stock books on Theology and New Testament (Koine) Greek.

Furthermore, we can obtain any book in print and source out of print titles.

We can do it all, please support your local independent bookshop.

“Latin and Greek are not dead...they are immortal!

19/04/2024

The Lagoon : How Aristotle Invented Science - Armand Marie Leroi
Paperback £12.99

https://www.hellenicbookservice.com/asp/detail_sql.asp?ID=26382

In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It was here, over two thousand years ago, that Aristotle came to work. Aristotle was the greatest philosopher of all time.

Author of the Poetics, Politics and Metaphysics, his work looms over the history of Western thought. But he was also a biologist - the first. Aristotle explored the mysteries of the natural world.

With the help of fishermen, hunters and farmers, he catalogued the animals in his world, dissected them, observed their behaviours and recorded how they lived, fed, and bred. In his great zoological treatise, Historia animalium, he described the mating habits of herons, the sexual incontinence of girls, the stomachs of snails, the sensitivity of sponges, the flippers of seals, the sounds of cicadas, the destructiveness of starfish, the dumbness of the deaf, the flatulence of elephants and the structure of the human heart. And then, in another dozen books, he explained it all.

In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science. He goes to Le**os to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he saw them, and explores the Philosopher's deep ideas and inspired guesses - as well as the things that he got wildly wrong. Leroi shows how Aristotle's science is deeply intertwined with his philosophical system and how modern science even now bears the imprint of its inventor.

10/04/2024

Glorious Exploits- Ferdia Lennon Price: £16.99 Hardback

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An exhilarating, fiercely original story of brotherhood, war and art, and of daring to dream of something bigger than ourselves.

It's 412 BC, and Athens' invasion of Sicily has failed catastrophically. Thousands of Athenian soldiers are held captive in the quarries of Syracuse, starving, dejected, and hanging on by the slimmest of threads. Lampo and Gelon are local potters, young men with no work and barely two obols to rub together. When they take to visiting the nearby quarry, they discover prisoners who will, in desperation, recite lines from the plays of Euripides for scraps of bread and a scattering of olives. And so, an idea is born: the men will put on Medea in the quarry.

A proper performance to be sung of down the ages. Because after all, you can hate the Athenians for invading your territory, but still love their poetry. But as the audacity of their enterprise dawns on them, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between enemies and friends.

As the performance draws near, the men will find their courage tested in ways they could never have imagined.

'Madly ambitious, cathartic like all great tragedy, but shockingly funny too, Ferdia Lennon's outstandingly original but is just glorious' Emma Donoghue, author of Room.