Drinking from the Blood-Pit

Meditations on Flittering Shadows

Fiction & Literature, Anthologies, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Kostas Myrsiades ISBN: 9781543425093
Publisher: Xlibris US Publication: May 18, 2017
Imprint: Xlibris US Language: English
Author: Kostas Myrsiades
ISBN: 9781543425093
Publisher: Xlibris US
Publication: May 18, 2017
Imprint: Xlibris US
Language: English

Drinking from the Blood-Pit is a work of creative nonfiction, which uses Odysseuss descent to the underworld (Od.10.490-95) as a unifying theme for each of the fourteen pieces included. Each piece is based on a Homeric theme and/or episode that stresses the lessons culled from reading Homers Iliad and Odyssey on the authors journey from childhood to adulthood. The title of each story indicates the Homeric myth or episode used and is accompanied by a short epigraph from either the Iliad or Odyssey. The fourteen works are divided into three sections: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The first part, childhood (four stories), describes growing up on the island of Samos, Greece, during the Nazi occupation and the Greek Civil War that followed. The second section, adolescence (four stories), continues the authors odyssey to the United States, attempting to deal with a new language and becoming acclimated to a foreign culture. The third part, adulthood (six stories), returns the author to his native land as a student of Greek culture struggling to study the censored works of Greek poets under the military government of 19671974.

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Drinking from the Blood-Pit is a work of creative nonfiction, which uses Odysseuss descent to the underworld (Od.10.490-95) as a unifying theme for each of the fourteen pieces included. Each piece is based on a Homeric theme and/or episode that stresses the lessons culled from reading Homers Iliad and Odyssey on the authors journey from childhood to adulthood. The title of each story indicates the Homeric myth or episode used and is accompanied by a short epigraph from either the Iliad or Odyssey. The fourteen works are divided into three sections: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The first part, childhood (four stories), describes growing up on the island of Samos, Greece, during the Nazi occupation and the Greek Civil War that followed. The second section, adolescence (four stories), continues the authors odyssey to the United States, attempting to deal with a new language and becoming acclimated to a foreign culture. The third part, adulthood (six stories), returns the author to his native land as a student of Greek culture struggling to study the censored works of Greek poets under the military government of 19671974.

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