BibliographyGreece2007


Greece 2007. Some Suggested Bibliography


[Works marked with asterisk (*) are the
most recommended]



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Archaeology/Art


*R. E. Wycherley, The Stones of Athens


Susan Woodford, An Introduction to Greek Art


John Boardman , Greek Art


*William R. Biers , The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction


John Griffiths Pedley, Greek Art and Archaeology


Emily Vermeule, Greece in the Bronze Age


J. J. Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece


M. Robertson, A History of Greek Art/A Shorter History of Greek Art


A. W. Lawrence, Greek Architecture


Osbert Lancaster, Sailing to Byzantium: An Architectural Companion


 


Ancient Works


*Herodotus HISTORY OF THE PERSIAN WARS


Homer ILIAD


Homer ODYSSEY


Aristophanes ACHARNIANS, PEACE, LYSISTRATA


Aeschylus ORESTEIA


Sophocles PHILOCTETES, OEDIPUS AT COLONUS


Euripides MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS, BACCHAE


Thucydides HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR


Procopius THE SECRET HISTORY


 


Historical Fiction on Ancient World/Byzantium


*Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine


Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo


Mary Renault, The King Must Die


Mary Renault, The Bull from the Sea


Gore Vidal, Julian


Robert Graves, Count Belisarius


Steven Pressfield, The Gates of Fire


Steven Pressfield, The Tides of War


 


Guide Books


*Blue Guide to Greece


Blue Guide to Crete


Michelin Guide to Greece


*Pausanias Guide to Greece


A Traveler’s History of Greece (T. Boatswain, C. Nicolson)


Rough Guide:  Greece


Lonely Planet:  Greece


 


Greek History


* A. R. Burn, Pelican History of Greece


J. B. Bury, History of Greece


N. G. L. Hammond , A History of Greece to 322 BC


Bury/Meiggs, A History of Greece


Will Durant The Life of Greece


Paul Lemerle, History of Byzantium


Philip Sherrard, Time-Life Byzantium


C. M. Woodhouse, Modern Greece: A Short History


Richard Clogg, History of Modern Greece


 


Travel Journalism


*Patrick Leigh-Fermor, Roumeli


Patrick Leigh-Fermor, Mani


Robert Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts (chapters on Greece)


Nicholas Gage, Eleni


 


Religion


Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church


Walter Burkert, Greek Religion


*Jon Mikalson, Ancient Greek Religion


 


Fiction/Poetry (Modern)


*Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba, The Greek Passion, Freedom or Death, Report
to Greco


Olivia Manning, Friends and Heroes (from the Balkan Trilogy)


C. P. Cavafy, Poems


 


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