Greece category: 2003 books
Mykonos & Zante Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Look over the Aegean Sea from the bleached-white buildings of Mykonos. The homes and churches of this exotic Greek island appear to cascade down the hillside into the sea, which converges in a mixture of beautiful blue sea and sky. Welcome to one of the most romantic destinations in the world....
Ex Oriente Lex
Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Throughout the twelve essays that appear in Ex Oriente Lex, Raymond Westbrook convincingly argues that the influence of Mesopotamian legal traditions and thought did not stop at the shores of the Mediterranean, but rather had a profound impact on the early laws and legal developments of Greece and...
Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume I
The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom.
"In a series of sketches touching on everything from the lust for honor to the suspicion of commerce and philosophy, from the role of homoerotic...
Sparta's First Attic War
The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan†‘Athenian alliance
During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire...
The Realness of Things Past
Ancient Greece and Ontological History
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The Realness of Things Past proposes a new paradigm of historical practice. It questions the way we conventionally historicize the experiences of non-modern peoples, western and non-western, and makes the case for an alternative. It shows how our standard analytical devices impose modern, dualist...
by A.W. Pickard
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Demosthenes (Δημοσθένης) was a prominent Athenian statesman and orator. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric...
Sweet and Bitter Island
A History of the British in Cyprus
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
On a sweltering day in July 1878, the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders - the Black Watch - waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonise the same stretch of sand, the latest visitors to an island which has long held a special place in the...
The Greek Civil War
Strategy, Counterinsurgency and the Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Greek Civil War (1946–9) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement. Spyridon Plakoudas here explores the factors which ultimately caused the downfall of the communist insurgency...
by Prof. Nicholas Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Olynthus, an ancient city in northern Greece, was preserved in an exceptionally complete state after its abrupt sacking by Phillip II of Macedon in 348 B.C., and excavations in the 1920s and 1930s uncovered more than a hundred houses and their contents. In this book Nicholas Cahill analyzes the results...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This collection of studies in Greek epigraphy honors the work of Stephen V. Tracy. His meticulous research on the hands of Attic letter-cutters has transformed the way we think about Greek inscriptions in Attica and beyond. The twenty-nine scholars who have contributed to this volume offer papers...
Remembering Absence
The Sense of Life in Island Greece
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
This book looks to citizens of the Greek island of Chios and how they reshape memories of a traumatic past to form new ways of coping. Author Nicolas Argenti’s writing style is incredibly fluid and engaging, and in each chapter he focuses on the stories of particular local people.
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by Frank Pierrepont Graves
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks is a concise overview of the burial rites and rituals in ancient Greece. A table of contents is included.
by Ralph Lavelle
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Hailing from Ireland, but based in Australia with his family, web developer Ralph Lavelle was tired of office life in Brisbane. You know how it is. So he went to Zakynthos, the Greek island his wife Tina's parents come from, to see how he and his family would get on living there for a season before...
At Twilight They Return
A Novel in Ten Tales
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The powerful and stylistically brilliant saga of a family by one of contemporary Greece’s most acclaimed literary masters Zyranna Zateli’s ambitious, multigenerational saga is the story of Christoforos, who first weds Petroula, and then Eftha, followed, after her death, by Persa; of his sexually...