This volume sets out to explore the two-way relations between Greek and British literary production in which the British Council played a particularly important role until the outbreak of armed conflict in Cyprus in 1955. What is distinctive about the volume, beyond the inclusion of much recent archival research, is its attention to the British Council as part of the story of Greek letters, and not just as a place in which various British men and women of letters worked and thus fills a gap in the rich bibliography on Anglo-Greek relations and contributes to a wider scholarly and public discussion about cultural politics.

Peter Mackridge was Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2003 and is an Emeritus Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.

David Ricks is Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature at King's College London.

Introduction, Peter Mackridge 1 The end of an affair: Anglo-Greek relations, 1939-1955, Robert Holland 2 'To cast our net very much wider': The re-opening of the British Council in Athens and its cultural activities in Greece, Gioula Koutsopanagou 3 Steven Runciman at the British Council: Letters from Athens, 1945-1947, Michael Llewellyn-Smith 4 Making a new myth of Greece: G.K. Katsimbalis as Anglo-Greek Maecenas, Avi Sharon 5 Between propaganda and modernism: The Anglo-Greek Review and the rediscovery of Greece, Dimitris Tziovas 6 The Anglo-Greek Review: Some residual puzzles, Dimitris Daskalopoulos 7 The magazine Prosperos and the British Council Corfu branch, Theodosis Pylarinos 8 The British Council magazine The Record (Thessaloniki, 1947-1955), Dinos Christianopoulos 9 Making friends for Britain?: Francis King and Roger Hinks at the British Council in Athens, David Roessel 10 Cultural Relations and the 'non-political' problem: some personal reflections, with a glance at two novels from the period 1945-1955, Jim Potts 11 MacNeice in Greece, David Ricks 12 Kazantzakis in Cambridge, David Holton 13 The Institut français d'Athènes 1945-1955: Cultural exchanges and Franco-Greek relations, Lucile Arnoux-Farnoux Bibliography