Syracusan Muse: Poems about Magna Graecia in Greek and English (The Hellenic Muses) - Tapa blanda

This collection, published in Greek and English on facing pages, comprises poems that refer to significant personalities or events of Magna Graecia, especially of Sicily and Syracuse, having as their epicenter the love story of Alpheus and Aretusa. Moving in the sphere between myth and history or art and philosophy, these poems constitute a eulogy of the Hellenism that flourished in South Italy and Sicily for more than a millennium.

Christos C. Evangeliou is professor of philosophy at Towson University in Maryland, U.S.A. An expert in classical literature and Hellenic philosophy, he has published a variety of books and articles, as well as poetic collections, in both English and Modern Greek, his native language.