Greek Poets Muse Austerity Measures: ‘We’ll Hawk the Parthenon to Buy Our Bread’

We examine the Greek economic crisis from a different angle — from the perspective of poets, and through the prism of history, modern and ancient. Jeffrey Brown talks to poet and classicist A.E. Stallings, a resident of Athens for more than a decade, and poet Titos Patrikios, who has seen other dark times in Greek history.

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