Greece category: 2003 books
Rhodes and the Holocaust
The Story of the Jewish Community from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Rhodes and the Holocaust is the story of La Juderia, the Jewish community that once lived and flourished on Rhodes Island, the largest of the twelve Dodecanese islands in the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Turkey. While the focus of the accounts of the Holocaust has for the most part been on...
Epirus
Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Mainland
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Accessible cultural guide to the sights, cities and monuments of Epirus, including Ioannina, Parga, Preveza, Arta, Dodona, the Vikos Gorge and the site of the Battle of Actium. Tips on accommodation and eating out are included, plus detailed sections on Greek history, art and architecture.
Thessaly
Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Mainland
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
User-friendly, accessible cultural guide to the sights, monuments and landscape of Thessaly, including the famous monasteries of the Meteora, Trikala, Volos and Mount Pelion (Pilio), Larissa, the Vale of Tempe, Dion and Mount Olympus. Tips on accommodation and eating out are included, plus detailed sections on Greek history, art and architecture.
by H. Kitto
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 1991
The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for". Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece.
A Culture of Freedom
Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Christian Meier is one of Europe's preeminent authorities on the classical world. A Culture of Freedom marks the apex of his lifelong research on ancient Greek culture. Beginning with a section on medieval and modern Europe's enormous inheritance of Greek institutions and ideas, the book moves on...
by Jacob Burckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This monumental work by a distinguished European scholar presents a scrupulously realistic approach to ancient Greek civilization. Professor Burckhardt dispenses with superficial and sentimental views of ancient Greece to embrace a more sophisticated and accurate vision of a complex culture that practiced...
The Gymnasium of Virtue
Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Gymnasium of Virtue is the first book devoted exclusively to the study of education in ancient Sparta, covering the period from the sixth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Nigel Kennell refutes the popular notion that classical Spartan education was a conservative amalgam of "primitive"...
Pythagorean Women
Their History and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In Pythagorean Women, classical scholar Sarah B. Pomeroy discusses the groundbreaking principles that Pythagoras established for family life in Archaic Greece, such as constituting a single standard of sexual conduct for women and men. Among the Pythagoreans, women played an important role and participated...
Thebes in the Fifth Century (Routledge Revivals)
Heracles Resurgent
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In the fifth century BC Thebes, faced with the challenges presented by defeat and disgrace in the Persian Wars – it had sided with the invaders – succeeded not only in regaining its former prominence, but also in laying the groundwork for its hegemony of Greece in the early part of the fourth...
by Lionel Jehuda Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Professor Sanders’ full-length study of Dionysius I, one of the most powerful figures of fourth-century BC Greece, is the first to appear in English, and marks an important reassessment of the ‘tyrant’ of Syracuse.
Dionysius I regularly appears in the surviving historical accounts as...
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
Why the Greeks Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.
In the...
Pharmakon
Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens examines the emerging concern for controlling states of psychological ecstasy in the history of western thought, focusing on ancient Greece (c. 750-146 BCE), particularly the Classical Period (c. 500-336 BCE) and especially the dialogues...
The Metamorphoses
Books VIII-XI
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a compendium of the Mythological narratives of ancient Greece and Rome, which embrace a large amount of information upon almost every subject connected with the learning, traditions, manners, and customs of antiquity. In this translation, the text of the Delphin edition...
by Simon Hornblower
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication nearly thirty years ago. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively revised and partly rewritten his original text, bringing it up-to-date for yet another generation of readers. In particular,...