So today I went to pick up some more books for university from bookstores. I had gone on Thursday too and got many of them but I had to go again to take the rest. Now only 3-4 remain.

Anyway I will list them down here so that we can all hate them together! :twisted: Why hate them? Because many of them are huge, heavy and hard to carry around in the middle of Athens. :x

Here they are:

1. LATIN PHILOLOGY:

Latin Lexicography in Greece (that was a small book of 150 pages)

History of Roman Literature (this is two huge volumes of 1000 pages each!)

Cicero: Four Speeches against Catilina / The Speeches for Marcellus and Ligarius (that's a small book too with 200 pages but the pages are hardly separated, most of them are not cut and I can't open the pages :x. What bookbinding art is that!)

M. T. Ciceronis: Orationes In L. Catilinam Quattor (another small book with 100 pages)

2. ANCIENT GREEK PJILOLOGY:

Historic Grammar of the Ancient Greek Language (another big, hard-cover book of 500+ pages)

Xenophon: His Life and his Work (that's a regular book with 220+ pages)

Perfect Polity: The Political Reflection in Ancient Greece (another small book of 100 pages)

Xenophontis Opera Omnia: Institutio Cyri (a book of 400 pages of the original ancient greek text of Xenphon's work Institutio Cyri, but of small size so it wasn't heavy)

3. BYZANTINE PHILOLOGY:

Byzantine Literature (this is another set of 3 volumes of 450 pages each and of big size!)

Buzantine Historians and Chronographers (haven't gotten that book yet)

The Byzantine Millenium (another big book of 500 pages)

Exploration of the Byzantine Prose (a huge book of 1000 pages!)

The Birth of a Capital (in reference to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire; another huge book of 700 pages)

4. LINGUISTICS:

Theorist Linguistics: An Introduction to modern Linguistics

Modern Greek Word: Studies about the Language, the Literature and the Expression

5. MODERN GREEK PHILOLOGY:

Corpus: Theory of Literature (a book of 450 pages)

History of the Byzantine Folklore Literature (a big book of 350 pages)

The Poetry of Modern Greece


To get these books I roamed in Athens like everywhere: from Omonoia to any street you can name, then to Monastiraki (very close to Akropolis), only to find out that the bookstore there was not giving away books for universities and was redirected back to Syntagma and to Panepistimio to find out that the time when I went the bookstore was closed. Btw it was not only one bookstore I had to find but at least 10 of them all spread in Athens. That's why I went again today: to get those few (huge) books that where in this bookstore that was closed.

So for the most time last Thursday and today I was roaming Athens with a backpack which I would swear weighed five kilos to say the least. Oh and today all the books couldn't fit in the school-bag so I had an extra bag with two huge books. My hands were red by the end of it! :x

Honestly the administration of Greek universities and especially the one I go to, should be ashamed of themselves.

Not to mention the hilarious system of sending every student to collect his books from 10 separate bookstores, we were told that all the info we needed about the publishing organisations were in the uni's site. Surprise! Yes they were saying which books were published by whom, but no addresses. So I had to search the internet for every publisher. In some occasions publishers had no web sites and no info for them on the internet to be found. Some of their info were found be sheer luck. And to top that......

.....the first book of Linguistics is given out in the university itself. Fine? Fine! I go to the university, I ask them where exactly I should go. They tell me go the 6th floor and if it is closed go to the 8th (!). So I go to the 6th: closed. What a surprise! :roll:

So I go to the 8th and ask for info inside the Study Hall of the department of Linguistics: "Book? What book? I don't know anything sir..." Yeah....

I go back to the 3rd to tell them that in the 8th they know nothing. "Well they should know. They are supposed to know" *silence* I ask someone else in there and she tells me: "It is possible that the distribution of that book is over" (!) Me: "And when and how will I get my book now?" Her: "...hm... I don't know" (!) ............:x :x :x

It's like they are tormenting us in purpose!

Anyway, that's all. :(