Aiora Books

Aiora Books Aiora Press is an independent Greek publishing house.

Its catalogue includes books offering a fresh perspective in Politics, History, Social Science, Languages, Literature, Theatre, Health, Eastern Philosophy, Children's Books. Aiora also publishes important works of ancient and modern Greek literature translated in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Russian.

When Dionysis Savvopoulos burst onto the Greek music scene in the early sixties, his highly original songs defied classi...
24/11/2025

When Dionysis Savvopoulos burst onto the Greek music scene in the early sixties, his highly original songs defied classification. There were no precedents in the music genres then common in Greece.

He has enjoyed an almost mythical status with the Greek listening public during the last sixty years and it would be no exaggeration to say that he has been the voice of several generations, given that his lyrics reflect the struggles, frustrations, hopes and sentiments of a broad stratum of Greek society.

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📖 'The Rock Song of Our Tomorrow' by Dionysis Savvopoulos is translated by David Connolly and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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20/11/2025

Give the gift of wisdom this Christmas!

The Pocket Greek Library: the best of Ancient Greece in handsome pocket-sized hardcover editions that bring the wisdom of millennia into the everyday.

📖 From Aristotle to Plato, they make the perfect stocking-filler for the erudite and intellectually curious reader in your life.

🇬🇷 .studio.poros

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18/11/2025

Wim Wenders reading "The City" by C. P. Cavafy at Onassis Stegi

📖 'Selected Poems' by Cavafy is translated by David Connolly and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This is an excellent story, dramatic, although rather tragic. It can be read very quickly. Once you get into the...
14/11/2025

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This is an excellent story, dramatic, although rather tragic. It can be read very quickly. Once you get into the story you want to know how it ends. It's set on the Cephalonia on the eve of the Greek Revolution. It has details of the culture of the times. This novel is definitely worth reading.

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📖 'The Notary' by Alexandros Rangavis is translated by Simon Darragh and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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Want to gift the quintessential Greek novel this Christmas?"Set at the beginning of the 20th century, 'The Great Chimera...
12/11/2025

Want to gift the quintessential Greek novel this Christmas?

"Set at the beginning of the 20th century, 'The Great Chimera' tells the story of Marina, a young French woman with a turbulent family history, who falls in love with a Greek sea captain, Yiannis, and moves with him to the Aegean island of Syros to begin a new life as his wife.

The novel offers a vivid portrait of Marian’s inner world and explores a kind of love that brings both passion and destruction. At its core, the story revolves around two timeless themes — love and death — and reads like a modern Greek tragedy.

I truly loved this book. Karagatsis’s writing is dreamy, drawing you seamlessly into each scene, whether it captures the depths of the human soul or the raw power of nature. It reminded me how beautiful and impactful modern Greek classic literature can be. I can’t wait to watch the upcoming TV adaptation."

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📖 'The Great Chimera' by M. Karagatsis is translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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Dionysis Savvopoulos (b. 1944), Greece’s best-known singer-songwriter, died in Athens on 21 October 2025. The outpouring...
10/11/2025

Dionysis Savvopoulos (b. 1944), Greece’s best-known singer-songwriter, died in Athens on 21 October 2025. The outpouring of grief and creative responses that ensued showed once again his cross-generational impact and the deep bond audiences across political divides had cultivated with his stage persona, affectively called ‘Nionios’. During the last year of his life, Savvopoulos kept performing to sold-out audiences, published a best-selling autobiography, co-produced a TV documentary on his life, and saw the publication of a selection of his songs into English for the first time, translated by David Connolly.

Dimitris Papanikolaou from the University of Oxford has edited his introduction to this volume to mark the passing of Savvopoulos:

https://gc.fairead.net/savvopoulos

📖 'The Rock Song of Our Tomorrow' by Dionysis Savvopoulos is translated by David Connolly and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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Exploring what thinkers in various periods and language areas have said—often quite categorically—about human beings, ha...
07/11/2025

Exploring what thinkers in various periods and language areas have said—often quite categorically—about human beings, happiness and society sharpens our understanding of the diversity of views and encourages us to be circumspect, since although we are constantly faced with crucial choices, we don ’ t really know how we should live. And that happiness we are supposedly all pursuing—what might that actually be?

📖 'On Happiness: Nicomachean Ethics Book X' by Aristotle is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1963 was awarded to Giorgos Seferis ‘for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep f...
04/11/2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1963 was awarded to Giorgos Seferis ‘for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture.’

📖 Read his wonderful poems in 'Novel and Other Poems'. Translated by Roderick Beaton and available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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We are pleased to announce that you can now find a selection of our titles 🇳🇱💙Happy Reading! 📚 www.aiorabooks.com ...
03/11/2025

We are pleased to announce that you can now find a selection of our titles

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Happy Reading!

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What better book to read this Halloween than 'The Murderess'? A dark tale of violence, death, and tragedy, 'The Murderes...
31/10/2025

What better book to read this Halloween than 'The Murderess'?

A dark tale of violence, death, and tragedy, 'The Murderess' makes the perfect read during the gothic season.

📖 'The Murderess' by Alexandros Papdiamandis is translated by David Connolly and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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For the Greek myth lovers 📜 💛Herbert Draper’s epic painting depicts the dead Icarus, surrounded by lamenting nymphs. Ica...
29/10/2025

For the Greek myth lovers 📜 💛


Herbert Draper’s epic painting depicts the dead Icarus, surrounded by lamenting nymphs. Icarus’s father Daedalus, the mythical sculptor, architect and inventor of flying, made wings that allowed them to fly away from their island prison. The exhilarated Icarus forgot warnings and soared too close to the sun, melting the wax that secured the feathers, and fell from the sky into the Aegean Sea.

A keen eye will notice the artist does not appear to follow the story exactly, as Draper has represented the wings still fastened to Icarus, perhaps a reference to a winged angel. After Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ was published in 1859, writers and artists such as Herbert Draper took up his theme of origins, man’s mythical history and struggles between animal and human nature.

🪽 Herbert Draper, The Lament for Icarus, 1898. On free display in Tate Britain

📖 For more Greek Mythology, read 'Myths Behind Words'

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Living on the island of Skiathos in the late nineteenth century, Ma-Hadoula, who may truly be likened to a figure from a...
27/10/2025

Living on the island of Skiathos in the late nineteenth century, Ma-Hadoula, who may truly be likened to a figure from an ancient tragedy, is made constantly aware of the harsh fate awaiting young girls born into her traditional island community. She revolts against the social conventions of her day and against her God and is led to commit the most hideous of crimes. Against the background of village life and the natural beauty of the island, Papadiamandis explores the psychology and conscience of this woman in a work that is characterized by a moral tension reminiscent of the works of Dostoyevsky.



📖 'The Murderess' by Alexandros Papdiamandis is translated by David Connolly and is available now from all reputable UK bookstores and online retailers

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