Greece category: 2003 books
Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens
Books 11-14.34 (480-401 BCE)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Only one surviving source provides a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great—the Bibliotheke, or "Library," produced by Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 90-30 BCE). Yet generations of scholars have...
by Paul Cartledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
The Spartans is a compelling narrative that explores the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, by the world's leading expert in the field. Sparta has often been described as the original Utopia--a remarkably evolved society whose warrior...
Women's Life in Greece and Rome
A Source Book in Translation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This highly acclaimed collection, the first sourcebook on ancient women and now in its fourth edition, provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds...
A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities
Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
There are few disciplines as exciting and forward-looking as medicine. Unfortunately, however, many modern practitioners have lost sight of the origins of their discipline. A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities aspires to cure this lapse by taking readers back to the early days of Western medicine...
It's Enough
Simply Symi Island, Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Escape to Symi Island, Greece and accompany Ros, a single woman, living, learning and loving for six months on tiny, picture-perfect Symi. Tramp the hills and smell wild herbs, swim the turquoise waters, fish and sail the Aegean, ponder the island's history of sponge diving, wartime depredations and...
The Great Catalyst
European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
For over half a century, European Union has been a promising endeavor of cooperative institutionalism. It has shown that even nation states with a long history of conflict are capable of collaborating with one another to serve their own interests. However, the EU project has also made visible that...
Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice
The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time. The financial woes of this relatively small European nation threaten the long-term viability of the Euro while exposing the flaws in the ideal of continental...
by Nicolas Verdan
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey. Intelligence Agent Evangelos wants the truth about the murder, human trafficking into Greece, and about the corruption surrounding the wall's construction. It is a mystery novel...
by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This Kindle book indeed has more than 12 illustrations within.
A complete book on the Greek and Roman Gods. The perfect companion for anyone interested in Greek mythology and for those who enjoy Rick Riordan's, "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" book series.
Troy
Last War of the Heroic Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
When Paris, prince of Troy, ran off with Helen, wife of the king of Sparta, it launched the greatest war of the mythic age of Greece. Heroes and gods assembled on both sides, as the combined armies of Greece launched a siege that would last for ten years. During that time, famous heroes, such as Achilles,...
by Graeme Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Even before Theseus descended into the labyrinth to face the Minotaur, he was already a famous hero and a veteran of many battles. The son of a man, a woman, and the god Poseidon, he'd journey far across Ancient Greece, fighting numerous monsters including the Periphetes 'the clubber', the Crymmyon...
by Mark Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Aristophanes is widely credited with having elevated the classical art of comedy to the level of legitimacy and recognition that only tragedy had hitherto achieved, and producing some of the most intriguing works of literature to survive from classical Greece in the process. Among them, Frogs has...
Greek Walls
An Odyssey in Corfu
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In 1966, John Waller and his Danish wife visit the island of Corfu in Greece. In the days before charter flights and package tours, Corfu is 'heaven on earth'. Taken under the wing of George Manessis, a member of an influential local family, they explore an island, which has few proper roads and no...
Manolis Anagnostakis
Poetry and Politics, Silence and Agency in Post-War Greece
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The book reflects on the life and work of a significant poet, public figure, and influential commentator of the cultural, social, and political history of Greece post-World War II: Manolis Anagnostakis (1925–2005). It considers his oeuvre in relation to the work of his peers and to traditions of...