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Zorba the Greek Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

One might consider the 1964 film adaptation of Zorba the Greek, since that has managed to achieve quite a level of pop cultural influence. In particular, both the soundtrack and the final scene of the film, in which Zorba teaches the bookish protagonist how to dance like a Greek, have become fairly popular metonyms for Greek identity.

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