TY - BOOK AU - Bouras,Gillian TI - Aphrodite and the others SN - 0869143166 U1 - 949.52 PY - 1994/// CY - Ringwood, Victoria PB - McPhee Gribble Publishers KW - Bouras, Aphrodite, KW - Bouras, Gillian, KW - Peloponnesus (Greece : Peninsula) KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) N2 - "Aphrodite - priest's wife, matriarch, illiterate -has lived in her village in the Peloponnese for eighty-six years. Her struggle and hardship have been echoed by national and international upheavals, by war, dictatorship and famine. In writing the story of her mother-in-law's life, Gillian Bouras recounts her own difficulties as a Western educated woman, coming to terms with a woman so culturally different and domestically powerful."--Cover ER -