From the Archive: Aesthetic Arrest - It's All Greek to Me!
Sappho, Vangelis, The Trojan Women, Theo Angelopoulos & Our Favorite Foodie Spots in Athens!
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:
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
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
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!
“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!
I’m so happy you two are in Athens again! I know you love it there. Enjoy enjoy enjoy!