GreeceBibliog


Greece 2001. Some Suggested
Bibliography (optional)


Works marked with asterisk (*) are the most recommended


 


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


 


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


 


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)


 


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


 


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


 


Fiction/Poetry (Modern)


*Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba


Nikos Kazantzakis, The Greek Passion


Nikos Kazantzakis, Freedom or Death


Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco


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


C. P. Cavafy, Poems


 


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