Please help me find a book I can't remember the name of

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I read a book around 2003. There was a level of fuss about it being really good in the UK at the time. I think it was translated from Greek and had something to do with bees or honey. I think one of the main characters was a teacher or professor and there was something in it about going across Greece (?). The translation was the subject of much discussion at the time as it was quite worthy and wordy.
I'm sorry this isn't much to go on!

Travelling with Pomegranates, Sue Monk Kidd?

Ah, good suggestion but unfortunately not.

My terrible description isn't going to help this search is it?

Any of these:
Swimming to Ithaca by Simon Mawer, A House in Corfu by Emma Tennant, Corfu by Robert Dessiax, Eleni by Nicolas Gage and Margarita's Olive Press by Rodney Shields, The Summer of my Greek Taverna by Tom Stone, Little Infamies by Panos Karnezis, North of Ithaka by Eleni Gage, Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens by Sofka Zinovieff, Dinner with Persephone by Patricia Storace

It wasn't The Magus was it? Set in Greece and the main character was a teacher. The last paragraph was in Latin.