Medium Hardback (with dust-jacket), Near New Condition, 2005, 270 pages, ISBN 0 7333 1700 6

Dating Aphrodite – Luke Slattery

Modern adventures in the ancient world

A combination of travel book and history book, and a meditation on what it means to be an Australian in the media-saturated twenty-first century, Dating Aphrodite takes you to the actual places where the big ideas of Western civilisation were born. Slattery shows you the real landscape and explains how, even today, the spirit of these places and the meanings that can be found there shine through.

“The ache of loneliness is a classical emotion, there almost from the start. It inspired Alexander, created Rome, the Renaissance, Revolutionary France. Luke Slattery, light-footed traveller and passionate guide, movingly recovers for us a world that made our own and which we have never quite forgotten. This book is his Odyssey, his long journey home.” – David Malouf