Greece category: 2003 books
by Charlie Cottam, David L. S. Hodgkinson, Steve Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies:
Period Study: Relations between Greek states and between...
The Classical Art of Command
Eight Greek Generals Who Shaped the History of Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The Classical Age of Greece produced some of history's best-known generals and commanders. They include the Spartan king Leonidas, who embodied his countrymen's heroic ethos in the battle of Thermopylae; the Athenian leader Themistocles, credited as the architect of Athens' naval power and of the...
Wandering Greeks
The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and...
Spare Me the Details!
A Short History of Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
"I wish I knew more about Western history."
Adult, parent, student, and traveler: Who of us hasn't had this thought? Sara Drogin, a veteran high-school history teacher, addresses this wish with Spare Me the Details!, a "refresher text" for adults and students. Written in...
Onward to the Olympics
Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
The Olympic Games have had two lives—the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004. Onward to the Olympics provides...
by Hippocrates,Francis Adams (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Hippocratic Corpus (Latin: Corpus Hippocraticum) is a collection of around seventy early medical works from ancient Greece, written in Ionic Greek…..The Hippocratic Corpus contains textbooks, lectures, research, notes and philosophical essays on various subjects in medicine, in no particular order....
by Hippocrates,Francis Adams (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Hippocratic Corpus (Latin: Corpus Hippocraticum) is a collection of around seventy early medical works from ancient Greece, written in Ionic Greek…..The Hippocratic Corpus contains textbooks, lectures, research, notes and philosophical essays on various subjects in medicine, in no particular order....
by Hippocrates,Francis Adams (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Hippocratic Corpus (Latin: Corpus Hippocraticum) is a collection of around seventy early medical works from ancient Greece, written in Ionic Greek…..The Hippocratic Corpus contains textbooks, lectures, research, notes and philosophical essays on various subjects in medicine, in no particular order....
by Herbert S. Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
First published in 1963, this book by University of Missouri Microbiology Professor Herbert S. Goldberg provides the reader with a picture of the life and times of Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine.” Hippocrates was born on the island of Cos in 460 B.C., and his works remained for centuries...
by Richard C. Jebb
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book treats of the Influence of the Greek Mind on Modern Life.
“The vital power of the Greek spirit was indeed not fully disclosed until, after suffering a partial eclipse in the Macedonian age, it emerged in a new quality, as a source of illumination to the Italian masters of the world. Under...
Greek Buddha
Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334–324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha shows how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of Pyrrhonian...
Orthokostá
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos’s probing novel Orthokostá defied standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unheard voices of right-wing collaborationists, Valtinos...
A House in Corfu
A Family's Sojourn in Greece
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
The story of an unspoiled island and an English family making a home by the Aegean Sea.
In the early 1960s Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there.
This book is the story of that house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend...
Dream Seeking
On Nisyros a Small Greek Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Lin and Richard, like so many people, dreamed of a life in the sun, away from the pace and problems of their stressed lives as teachers.
Summer holidays in Europe were always over too quickly, and they began to feel the attraction of life in Greece.
After an 'accidental' holiday on the...