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Three Millennia of Greek Literature

Rock Around Byzantium!
Aspects of Byzantium in modern popular music

 

Warren Zevon
Ourselves To Know


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ELPENOR EDITIONS IN PRINT

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  We left Constantinople in a thousand ninety-nine
To restore the one True Cross was in this heart of mine
To bring it to Jerusalem and then sail home to Rhodes
We took that holy ride ourselves to know
We took that holy ride ourselves to know

Everyone got famous, everyone got rich
Everyone went off the rails and ended in the ditch
But we had to take that long, hard road to see where it would go
We took that holy ride ourselves to know
We took that holy ride ourselves to know

Now if you make a pilgrimage I hope you find your grail
Be loyal to the ones you leave with even if you fail
Be chivalrous to strangers you meet along the road
As you take that holy ride yourselves to know
You take that holy ride yourselves to know


 

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Patrick Cassidy - Lisa Gerrard
Sailing To Byzantium *


Dizzy Gillespie

Constantinople *


Blaine L. Reininger

Rosebud *


Pothead

Constantinople


Johnson - Dunning

Byzantium (Golden City) *


Deep Blue Something

Byzantium


Jesse Cook

Byzantium Underground


Zohar

Byzantine


Klezmorim

Constantinople *


Warren Zevon

Ourselves To Know


Bal-Sagoth

To Storm The Cyclopean Gates Of Byzantium *


Nova Menco

Constantinople *


Cusco

Byzantium *

Kansas
Byzantium


Loreena McKennitt

Kecharitomene *


Stephan Micus

Yperagia Theotoke (Athos Second Night)


Al Stewart

Constantinople


Delerium (feat. Joanna Stevens)

A Poem For Byzantium


Patricia Barber

Constantinople *


Pinback

Byzantine


h.e.r.r.

A New Rome


In the Nursery

Byzantium


Million Dead

The Rise And Fall 


Church

Dream


Antaeus (The Orchard)

Byzantine Meditation *

Greek :

Manos Hatzidakis
Nocturnal Angel
Up To Digenes' Yards


Nikos Xydakis

Imvros
Byzantine Silk
Constantinople *
Song Of The Doge
Hymn To Freedom

Dionysis Savopoulos
Preslaves
Rays Of The North


Evanthia Reboutsika

The Umbrella Of Bosporus *


Vasilis Tsabropoulos

Axion Esti *

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