Dancing in Chains: A Tale of Trickery

by Jessy Carlisle, Tanaka Mangoti (Illustrator), Panos Georgiou Marneris (Translator)

Overview

The Oracle of Delphi has foretold the fate of the Spartan army, but what did she really mean? This historical fiction tells the tale of betrayal in high places and a secret, forbidden romance. Whose voice will prevail? Which army will win the day? And what can a young lady learn from her little sister?

#535 in the Bilingual Legends series. This book is in both English and Tsakonian.

Additional Credits

Translation Editor: Maxim Kisilier

Maxim Kisilier is associate professor of Saint Petersburg University and senior fellow at the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His main research interests are the history of Modern Greek, Modern Greek dialects, Balkan studies and linguistic anthropology. In January 2010, he spent several days in Tsakonia (Eastern Peloponnese, Greece) and was so deeply impressed by the region and its people that he decided to focus his activities on Tsakonian speech and culture.

In 2012, he produced the film "The Tsikaliotis Tower" (www.tsakonianarchives.gr/video-pyrgos-tsikaliotis/, directed by Daria Agafonova) about the unique stone fortress-house in Leonidio (the capital of Tsakonia), which belonged to the local merchant Konstantinos Tsikaliotis. In 2016, Maxim Kisilier was awarded the Badge of Honour from the Tsakonian Archive for his contributions to the preservation and description of Tsakonian. Maxim Kisilier participates in various projects aimed at the revitalization of Tsakonian. He teaches it through the Free Tsakonian Summer School organized annually by the Tsakonian Archive and gives free online Tsakonian lessons every week.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781922758583
Publisher:	Michael Raymond Astle
Publication date:	08/04/2023
Series:	Bilingual Legends , #535
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	52
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	8 - 9 Years

About the Author

As an Australian poet, it's hard to find work in the Outback. But there children all over the world struggling to learn how to read. Some of them have hardly any books in their native language.That's why I created the Bilingual Legends series - to give as many children as possible the opportunity to read a story in their own native language. Usually, the language each book in the series is published in will be one that's spoken in the land where that story originates. A typical book also includes the text in English, but in some cases another language is employed instead.I hope you enjoy reading my books!
Tanaka Mangoti is a freelance digital artist and animator who has always been passionate about drawing. He has illustrated multiple books for the author.
My name is Panos Georgiou Marneris. I was born in 1952 in Tyros. My mother language is Tsakonian. I became a seaman two months before my eighteenth birthday and I travelled to the USA by ship. I stayed in New York in the USA as an illegal immigrant, but three or four years later I got married. At first, I was working at the restaurants then in construction. Later on, I opened my own business which was a building supply company and a window factory. In September 1999, I lost my 19-year-old son in a car accident in front of my house, and that accident changed my life. I lived and worked in the USA for 47 years. In 2017, I came back home and from that date on I have been working to keep my language alive by teaching Tsakonian to children and adults.