From the Archive: Aesthetic Arrest - It's All Greek to Me!

Sappho, Vangelis, The Trojan Women, Theo Angelopoulos & Our Favorite Foodie Spots in Athens!

and

Mar 22, 2024

Editor’s Note: This week we’re traveling in Athens and our podcast is a blast from the past! We’ve plunged into the archive to bring back a podcast with a Greek theme. We’ll be back next week to talk all about our trip! Here’s a teaser:

Half a liter of Malagouzia at one of our favorite tavernas in Athens! [Photo by Ryan Wildstar]

We’re staying in our favorite neighborhood in Athens, Koukaki, which Ryan Wildstar wrote an article about in 2022! You can read it here:

Going Krasí for Koukaki

Ryan Wildstar

July 18, 2022

Athens has long been one of our favorite cities in the world. After Paris, it’s the European metropolis we’ve lived in the longest and it is certainly the one that continues to capture our hearts. If one can get past its dilapidated sidewalks, its perilous crosswalks overrun with homicidal taxi drivers (I’ve almost been

Read full story

Click below to listen to the podcast from the past:

Aesthetic Arrest Podcast: It's All Greek to Me! Sappho, Vangelis, The Trojan Women, Theo Angelopoulos & Our Favorite Foodie Spots in Athens!

Ryan Wildstar and Ryan Elston

April 14, 2023

Aesthetic Arrest Podcast: It's All Greek to Me! Sappho, Vangelis, The Trojan Women, Theo Angelopoulos & Our Favorite Foodie Spots in Athens!

“The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object . . . you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.” - Joseph Campbell Aesthetic Arrest is our weekly dip into the Epicurean pleasures we’ve been enjoying lately. Cheers to that!

Read full story

Thank you for reading The Epicurean Vagabonds. This post is public so feel free to share it.

Share The Epicurean Vagabonds

The Epicurean Vagabonds

From the Archive: Aesthetic Arrest - It's All Greek to Me!

Sappho, Vangelis, The Trojan Women, Theo Angelopoulos & Our Favorite Foodie Spots in Athens!

Going Krasí for Koukaki

Aesthetic Arrest Podcast: It's All Greek to Me! Sappho, Vangelis, The Trojan Women, Theo Angelopoulos & Our Favorite Foodie Spots in Athens!

Discussion about this post