Greece Between East and West

Contents
Foreword • Roderick Beaton
Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: Geopolitics and the Spirit of Place • Richard Pine
Political Life Past and Present
	2. A Voice in the Wilderness: Ion Dragoumis, Greece, and the West • John Mazis
	3. Leros: Foucault’s Node • Neni Panourgiá
	4. (Re)staging Thermopylae: Barriers, Borders and the Humanitarian Supply Chain at the European Frontier • Chloe Howe Haralambous
	5. Cultural Memory and Social Habilitation: The Refugee Experience • Emilia Salvanou
Culture East and West
	6. The Lure of the Orient in Greek Music and Literature • Gail Holst-Warhaft
	7. The Humanity of Medea • Spyros D. Orfanos
	8. A Touch of Spice: Tassos Boulmetis in Conversation with Richard Pine
The Balkans and the Levant: Two Fictions and Three Cities
	9. “The Howl” from To the Lake • Kapka Kassabova
	10. The Conception and Composition of A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible • Christy Lefteri
	11. “Bride of the Mediterranean”: Modern Alexandria and the Greek Legacy • Robin Ostle
	12. İzmir 1922: A Port City Unravels • Reşat Kasaba
	13. What Did W B Yeats Understand by “Byzantium”? • Roy Foster
India, China and the Rediscovery of Greece
	14. Books Telling Stories: Charting Modern Greek Literature during the Enlightenment • Stratos Myrogiannis
	15. Early Buddhism and the Greeks • Richard Stoneman
	16. Bengali Reception of Greece in the Colonial Era: Some Facets • Sirshendu Majumdar
	17. Greece and the Expanding East: Modern Aspects of the “Silk Road” • Sophia Kalantzakos
Appendix: Some Notes on Lawrence Durrell in Greece, the Balkans and the Levant • Richard Pine