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Category Archive: Greece

Found in Translation: the poetry in The Road to Sparta

In the documentary film The Road to Sparta, we took the slightly off-beam decision to turn to poetry […]

March 19, 2019 Books, Culture, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

Sport in Art in Ancient Greece

Heinrich is a special kind of guide. A trained archaeologist with the appropriate eye for detail and a […]

February 19, 2019 Culture, Greece, Greek sporting legends, History, Olympics, Running, Sport

Malcolm is On the Mend

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Five years ago, I wrote a review on this blog about a book called Malcolm is a Little […]

February 12, 2019 Culture, Film, Greece

Kissing the feet of Leonidas

When a runner completes the 246-kilometre Spartathlon he or she earns a rare privilege. A last stretch of […]

February 5, 2019 Culture, Film, Greece, History, Spartathlon, Sport

Book Review – The Road to Sparta by Dean Karnazes

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My first encounter with Dean Karnazes came in the early summer of 2014. I was about to embark […]

December 28, 2016 Book reviews, Books, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

First Night Nerves

It was inevitable there would be a few nerves. After two and a half years of hard work, […]

November 8, 2016 Culture, Dublin, Film, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport, Trinity College

Stallings takes on the men for Oxford poetry chair

The literary world is aflush, it seems, with ruddy-cheeked excitement at the election for the next Oxford Professor […]

June 4, 2015 Books, Culture, Greece, USA

Book Review – Running and Stuff by James Adams

It was a busy weekend of sport; the end of the Premier League season, England winning a Test […]

May 26, 2015 Book reviews, Books, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

Tsagarakis has Designs on the Parthenon Marbles

Spyridon Tsagarakis is perhaps best known as a fashion designer; his clothes can be found in the wardrobes […]

February 25, 2015 Culture, Greece, History

Long Day’s Journey into Night (and back into day again)

It was around 11 o’clock on Saturday morning when Dean Karnazes (right) slipped past the ruins of the temple […]

October 6, 2014 Culture, Film, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

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