Greece category: 2003 books

Let's Go Budget Athens is a budget traveler's ticket to getting the most out of a trip to Greece-without breaking the bank. Whether you want to comb through Acropolis Museum's impressive collection of ancient artifacts, take a day trip to World Heritage Site Delos, party until dawn on Mykonos and the...

Athens, the ancient capital of Greece, is one of the oldest cities in the world. Here you can marvel at the mighty Acropolis and walk in the footsteps of Plato and Aristotle. This is the city where democracy and justice made their first steps.  When in the Old Town of the capital of Rhodes imagine...

Cultural guide to the sights and monuments of Athens and Attica, including Sounion, Daphni, Marathon and Eleusis. Practical tips on eating and accommodation are also included, plus detailed introductions on history, pottery, temple design and Byzantine architecture.

Accessible cultural guide to the famous sights, cities and monuments of the Peloponnese, including Corinth, Sparta, Nemea, Olympia (with full coverage of the ancient Games), Argos, Pylos, Epidaurus, Tiryns and Mycenae, plus the Byzantine city of Mistra, modern Patras, Monemvasia and the Mani, and...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Cyprus a beautiful island in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Turkey. After Sicily and Sardinia, Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean. Although the island is geographically in Asia it is politically a European country and is a member...

MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR TIME ON EARTH Discover Crete with this comprehensive, entertaining, 'tell it like it is' Rough Guide, packed with exhaustive practical information and our experts' honest independent recommendations. Whether you plan to trek down the Samariá Gorge, while away the hours...

Kerkyra (Corfu), the mythical island of the Phaeacians, was the last 'port of call' of Odysseus before he returned to Ithaca. Scattered traces of the ancient heritage of Kerkyra are preserved today. However, what really makes the island stand apart is its urban architecture, which constitutes an important...

Love is immeasurable On an isolated cape high above a churning sea, a mysterious young woman of enchanting beauty enters a lonely temple. Lulled there by inconceivable desire, it is a clandestine meeting that will forever alter her fate. Wishing only to capture the love of a god, she instead...

The work, a portion of which is now presented to the reader, has occupied me many years--though often interrupted in its progress, either by more active employment, or by literary undertakings of a character more seductive. These volumes were not only written, but actually in the hands of the publisher...

Herodotus has shaped our knowledge of life, religion, war and politics in ancient Greece immeasurably, as well as being one of the most entertaining of all Classical Greek authors: fascinating, perceptive, accessible and not at all pretentious. Herodotus and Greek History, first published in...

About the book Cruising on the Ocean Majesty "On board, wrapped in a delicious atmosphere" A cruise on the Aegean and Adriatic seas with the jewel cruise ship OCEAN MAJESTY, and the passion of a traveller looking beneath the surface of what most people see. An attractive...

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks’ path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative...

People journey to Greece for the ruins, Turkey for the Aya Sophia, and Russia for St. Basil's, but Alexia Brue travels with a different itinerary: to visit the baths. At once deeply personal and highly informative, Cathedrals of the Flesh is the candid and playful account of one woman's determination...

Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply...