Greece category: 2003 books
by Georgios Papadakis
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Learning to read a language with a foreign alphabet can be an intimidating challenge. Even before you can start to study the vocabulary and grammar, you must first decipher this strange new script.
But learning a new alphabet does not have to be so difficult.
Other language courses start...
by Thanos Kondylis
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
WRITER : Thanos Kondylis
TITLE : The Ottoman Turks Against Europe (16th c.)
TYPE : History
FORM : Article
FOOTNOTES : -
BIBLIOGRAFY : -
LANGUAGE : ENGLISH
PAGES : 19
WORDS : 3.200
FIRST PRESENTATION : 2011
CONTEMPORARY VERSION : 2012 (v.1)
SUMMARY :
This is the story of the Ottoman Turks. They emerged...
Macedonia and the Macedonians
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This detailed volume surveys the history of Macedonia from 600 BC to the present day, with an emphasis on the past two centuries. It reveals how the so-called Macedonian question has long dominated Balkan politics, and how for well over a century and a half, it was the central issue dividing Balkan...
Alexander
A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art Of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B.C. 301, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
A clazzic history of one of the world's greatest military commanders. At the age of 20, Alexander the Great inherited the near-bankrupt kingdom of Macedonia and its small but revolutionary army, built around an unbreakable infantry phalanx and a shock cavalry force. In just ten years, he led this...
by Polybius
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Written in the 2nd century by the Greek historian Polybius, "The Histories" is a multi-volume work detailing many of the events, people, and ideas of the Hellenistic Period. While his focus is the space of time in which ancient Rome became a world power from 220 to 167 BC, Polybius also discusses his...
The Trojan War
The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Presented in this book are three of the greatest literary works of the Ancient World: 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer, and 'The Aeneid' by Virgil.
'The Iliad' tells the tale of the ten year siege of Troy by the Greeks, the exploits of King Agamemnon and the legendary Achilles,...
by Thucydides,Richard Crawley (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian general who served in the war. It is widely considered a classic and...
Thermopylae
The Battle for the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
An account of the ancient battle between Persia and the alliance of Greek city-states, including the legendary “300 Spartans.”
In 480 BCE, Persian king Xerxes led a massive invasion of Greece. A critical point in this invasion was the battle for the pass at Thermopylae—“Hot Gates”...
Hellenistic Lives
including Alexander the Great
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Alexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * Flamininus This selection of ten Lives traces the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire to the arrival of the Romans. Plutarch's...
by Plutarch
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 1998
The nine lives in this selection include those of Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, and Alexander. Portraying virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, Plutarch explores with great insight the interplay of character and political action. This new...
Classical Mythology
A dictionary of the tales, characters and traditions of Classical Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
For thousands of years the myths of Ancient Greece and Rome have fascinated people and inspired great writers, thinkers, artists and culture. This book explains myths and retells them in this comprehensive and useful tales, myths and characters in over 1000 cross-references.
The Battle of Salamis
The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia...
The Story of Athens
The Fragments of the Local Chronicles of Attika
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
A leading authority in the field, Phillip Harding presents the very first English translations of the six Athenian writers known as the Atthidographers.
In his vivid and detailed history, Harding examines the remaining fragments of these historical writers' work – in chronological order –...
Pericles on Stage
Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens,...