Gorgeous Greece: Oh, the Places We’ll Go!
The Buttontapper Challenge is back! This month’s challenge is Seussily titled “Oh, the Places We’ll Go!” and will feature a new destination, daily, with inspiration from film and literature.
Today we’re traveling to Greece.
But first!
A foray into Florence…
Films featuring Greece
If you haven’t seen the original Clash of the Titans (a film I seem to recall watching as part of a Language Arts class in my youth), here’s a clip featuring Medusa in all her Claymation glory:
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- 300
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- Clash of the Titans (1981 and 2010)
- The Guns of Navarone
- Hercules
- Mamma Mia!
- Never on Sunday
- The Trojan Women
- Zorba the Greek
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Books set in Greece
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- Pretty much all of ancient Greek mythology (except, you know, for the parts set in Hades)
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Odyssey also by Homer
- The Magus by John Fowles
- An Octopus in My Ouzo by Jennifer Barclay
- Truly, Madly, Greekly by Mandy Baggot
- The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
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Have you ever been to Greece?
What did you most enjoy about visiting this lovely island country?
