Mediterranean


The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
The Odyssey
The Island of Missing Trees
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580
The Pillars of Hercules
Circe
Memory and the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I
The Leopard
The Song of Achilles
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean
This Rough Magic
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
John Fante
It is better to die of drink then to die of thirst.
John Fante, The Brotherhood of the Grape

Dorette E Snover
The Psomi Mistresses are the keepers of an agrarian cult. These old ways have their roots in ancient Eleusis and Greece. In the myth of Ceres and Persephone. In the novel, Tales of the Mistress, this myth is told in reverse, where Eleone aka Persephone is looking for her mother, Maman Antaia aka Ceres. *** The Psomi Mistresses represent the source of feminine energy, but not all the Mistresses are women. And so, in Tales of the Mistress, the Bread of Dreams are part of what's called the pha ...more
Dorette E Snover, Tales of the Mistress, A Novel

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