Greek Australian Luka Lesson launches new verse novel on different types of love

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Greek Australian poet and rapper, Luka Lesson, will launch his new verse novel, Agapi & Other Kinds of Love, surrounded by the Ancient Greek artefacts at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney, on Saturday, November 12 at 6.30pm.

During the event, Luka will combine the Ancient Greek types of love embedded within the pages of his book with a curated selection of Ancient Greek artefacts in the Museum, in a performance that is set to awaken the spirits lying dormant in the building.

Luka’s new verse novel.

Agapi & Other Kinds of Love is Luka’s first verse novel, inspired by Plato’s Symposium. The reader is taken on a journey through the Ancient Greek types of love, as seen through the eyes of ancient lovers: Socrates and Diotima, and their modern reincarnations: Pavlos and Sophia.

Self-love, erotic love, and the love of the stranger all collide with marble statues of Aphrodite, protestor’s chants and the Parthenon’s steps.

In Agapi & Other Kinds of Love, Lesson draws on his heritage to show us how love prevails despite the trials and tribulations of the ages.

Agapi is the first book to be published by The Future Ancients – Luka’s own production company.

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