Bibliography of Greece

This bibliography of Greece is a list of books in the English language which reliable sources indicate relate to the general topic of Greece.

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• Alexander, Caroline – The war that killed Achilles: the true story of Homer's Iliad.
• Alexander the Great: a new history.
• Alexander the Great: selected texts from Arrian, Curtius and Plutarch.
• Annas, Julia – Ancient philosophy: a very short introduction.
• Annas, Julia – Plato: a very short introduction.
• Aristotle – Politics.
• Armstrong, Karen – The great transformation: the beginning of our religious traditions.
• Atsaides, Susie – Greek generations: a medley of ethnic recipes, folklore, and village traditions.
• Bagnall, Nigel – The Peloponnesian War: Athens, Sparta and the struggle for Greece.
• Barnes, Jonathan – Aristotle: a very short introduction.
• Beard, Mary – The Parthenon.
• Beaton, Roderick – George Seferis: waiting for the angel: a biography.
• Barard, Claude – A city of images: iconography and society in ancient Greece.
• Bernal, Martin – Black Athena writes back: Martin Bernal responds to his critics.
• Bertman, Stephen – The genesis of science: the story of Greek imagination.
• Billows, Richard A. – Marathon: the battle that changed western civilization.
• Bowden, Hugh – Mystery cults of the ancient world.
• Bowlby, Linda S. – Renaissance woman: a study of women's roles throughout history with accompanying works of art.
• Bradford, Ernie – Thermopylae: the battle for the West.
• Brewer, David – Greece, the hidden centuries: Turkish rule from the fall of Constantinople to Greek independence.
• Broad, William J. – The oracle: ancient Delphi and the science behind its lost secrets.
• Budin, Stephanie Lynn – The ancient Greeks: an introduction.
• Burckhardt, Jacob – The Greeks and Greek civilization.
• Buxton, R. G. A. – The complete world of Greek mythology.
• Cahill, Thomas – Sailing the wine-dark sea: why the Greeks matter.
• Camp, John – The Athenian Agora: excavations in the heart of classical Athens.
• Camp, John – The world of the ancient Greeks.
• Cantor, Norman F. – Alexander the Great: journey to the end of the earth.
• Cantor, Norman F. – Antiquity: from the birth of Sumerian civilization to the fall of the Roman Empire.
• Capponi, Niccolo – The victory of the west: the great Christian-Muslim clash at the battle of Lepanto.
• Carroll, Michael – An island in Greece: on the shores of Skopelos.
• Cartledge, Paul – Alexander the Great: the hunt for a new past.
• Cartledge, Paul – Ancient Greece: a history in eleven cities.
• Cartledge, Paul – The Spartans: the world of the warrior-heroes of ancient Greece, from utopia to crisis and collapse.
• Cartledge, Paul – Thermopylae: the battle that changed the world.
• Castleden, Rodney – Minoans: life in Bronze Age Crete.
• Castleden, Rodney – Mycenaeans.
• Clark, Bruce – Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey.
• Connelly, Joan Breton – Portrait of a priestess: women and ritual in ancient Greece.
• Connolly, Peter – Greece and Rome at war.
• Cottrell, Leonard – The bull of Minos: the great discoveries of ancient Greece.
• Crane, David – Lord Byron's jackal: a life of Edward John Trelawny.
• Crowley, Roger – Empires of the sea: the siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the contest for the center of the world.
• Cunliffe, Barry W. – The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek.
• Curtis, Gregory – Disarmed: the story of the Venus de Milo.
• Dalby, Andrew – Rediscovering Homer: inside the origins of the epic.
• Davidson, James N. – Courtesans & fishcakes: the consuming passions of classical Athens.
• Davidson, James N. – The Greeks and Greek love: a bold new exploration of the ancient world.
• Davis, L. J. – Onassis: Aristotle and Christina.
• Dempster, Nigel – Heiress: the story of Christina Onassis.
• Dinsmoor, William Bell – The architecture of ancient Greece: an account of its historic development.
• Dodge, Theodore Ayrault – Alexander: a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the Battle of Ipsus, 301 BC, with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian.
• Doherty, P. C. – The death of Alexander the Great: what – or who --really killed the young conqueror of the known world?
• Durando, Furio – Ancient Greece: the dawn of the Western world.
• Durrell, Lawrence – Blue thirst.
• Durrell, Lawrence – The Greek Islands.
• Durrell, Lawrence – The Lawrence Durrell travel reader.
• Durrell, Lawrence – Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra.
• Durrell, Lawrence – Reflections on a marine Venus: a companion to the landscape of Rhodes.
• Emerson, Mary – Greek sanctuaries: an introduction.
• Evans, Peter – Ari: the life and times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis.
• Evans, Peter – Nemesis: the true story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the love triangle that brought down the Kennedys.
• Ferguson, Kitty – The music of Pythagoras: how an ancient brotherhood cracked the code of the universe and lit the path from antiquity to outer space.
• Fermor, Patrick Leigh – Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
• Fermor, Patrick Leigh – Roumeli: travels in northern Greece.
• Fields, Nic – Ancient Greek fortifications 500—300 BC.
• Fone, Byrne R. S. – Homophobia: a history.
• Foreman, Laura – Alexander the conqueror: the epic story of the warrior king.
• Fox, Robin Lane – Alexander the Great.
• Fox, Robin Lane – Travelling heroes: in the epic age of Homer.
• France, Peter – A place of healing for the soul: Patmos.
• Freely, John – Aladdin's lamp: how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world.
• Freeman, Charles – The Greek achievement: the foundation of the Western world.
• Freeman, Philip – The philosopher and the Druids: a journey among the ancient Celts.
• Freke, Timothy – The Jesus mysteries: Was the 'Original Jesus' a Pagan God?
• Fuller, J. F. C. – The generalship of Alexander the Great.
• Gage, Eleni N. – North of Ithaka: a journey home through a family's extraordinary past.
• Gage, Nicholas – Eleni.
• Gage, Nicholas – Greek fire: the story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis.
• Gage, Nicholas – A place for us.
• Gere, Cathy – Knossos and the prophets of modernism.
• Gere, Cathy – The tomb of Agamemnon.
• Gerolymatos, Andre – Red acropolis, black terror: the Greek Civil War and the origins of Soviet-American rivalry.
• Glatt, John – Blind passion: a true story of seduction, obsession, and murder.
• Grainger, John D. – Alexander the great failure: the collapse of the Macedonian Empire.
• Grant, Michael – The founders of the western world: a history of Greece and Rome.
• Grant, Michael – The rise of the Greeks.
• Grant, Michael – The visible past: an archaeological reinterpretation of the ancient world.
• The great naturalists.
• Greece: temples, tombs, & treasures.
• Greece: true stories.
• Green, Peter – Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: a historical biography.
• Green, Peter – Ancient Greece: an illustrated history.
• Green, Peter – The Hellenistic age: a history.
• Green, Roger – Hydra and the bananas of Leonard Cohen: a search for serenity in the sun.
• Hale, John R. – Lords of the sea: the epic story of the Athenian navy and the birth of democracy.
• Hamel, Debra – Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece.
• Hamilton, Edith – The Greek way.
• Hanson, Victor Davis – A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War.
• Hanson, Victor Davis – Ripples of Battle: How Wars Fought Long Ago Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think.
• Hanson, Victor Davis – The Wars of the Ancient Greeks: And the Invention of Western Military Culture.
• Hanson, Victor Davis – The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization ^[1]
• Harrison, Thomas – Greek religion: belief and experience.
• Herodotus – The Histories.
• Herodotus – Snakes with wings and gold-digging ants.
• Higgins, Charlotte – It's All Greek to Me: from Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, how Ancient Greece has shaped our world.
• Hill, Maria – Diggers and Greeks: the Australian campaigns in Greece and Crete.
• Hillman, D. C. A. – The chemical muse: drug use and the roots of Western civilization.
• Hirshfeld, Alan – Eureka man: the life and legacy of Archimedes.
• Hitchens, Christopher – The Elgin marbles: should they be returned to Greece?
• Hoffman, Susanna – The olive and the caper: adventures in Greek cooking.
• Holland, Tom – Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West.
• Homer – The Odyssey.
• Hopkins, T. C. F. – Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam.
• Hughes, Bettany – Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore.
• Huler, Scott – No man's lands: one man's odyssey through The Odyssey.
• Kagan, Donald – The Peloponnesian War.
• Kagan, Donald – Pericles of Athens and the birth of democracy.
• Kagan, Donald – Thucydides: the reinvention of history.
• Kakis, Frederic J. – Legacy of courage: a Holocaust survival story in Greece.
• Keuls, Eva C. – The reign of the phallus: sexual politics in ancient Athens.
• Kidd, Sue Monk – Traveling with Pomegranates: a mother daughter story.
• Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth – For the love of women: gender, identity and same-sex relations in a Greek provincial town.
• Kulukundis, Elias – The feasts of memory: stories of a Greek family.
• Kurke, Lance B. – The wisdom of Alexander the Great: enduring leadership lessons from the man who created an empire.
• Lawrence, A. W. – Greek architecture.
• Leon, Vicki – How to mellify a corpse: and other human stories of ancient science & superstition.
• Lloyd, Alan – Marathon: the story of civilizations on collision course.
• Lundberg, David – Olympic wandering: time travel through Greece.
• MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan – The Greek Stones Speak: the story of archaeology in Greek lands.
• Marchand, Jo – Decoding the heavens: a 2,000-year-old computer – and the century-long search to discover its secrets.
• Martin, Thomas R. – Ancient Greece: from prehistoric to Hellenistic times.
• Mason, David – News from the Village: Aegean friends.
• Matyszak, Philip – The classical compendium: a miscellany of scandalous gossip, bawdy jokes, peculiar facts, and bad behavior from the ancient Greeks and Romans.
• Mazower, Mark – Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430–1950.
• Mazur, Joseph – The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space.
• Michalopoulos, Dimitri, Homer's Odyssey beyond the myths, The Piraeus: Institute of Hellenic Maritime History, 2016. ISBN   978-618-80599-3-1
• Michas|Michas, Takis]] – Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic's Serbia.
• Miller, Stephen G. – Ancient Greek athletics.
• Moore-Pastides, Patricia – Greek revival: cooking for life.
• Moorehead, Caroline – Lost and found: the 9,000 treasures of Troy: Heinrich Schliemann and the gold that got away.
• Moutsatsos, Kiki Feroudi – The Onassis women: an eyewitness account.
• Myer, Will – People of the storm god: travels in Macedonia.
• Navia, Luis E. – Socrates: a life examined.
• The New Acropolis Museum.
• O'Brien, John Maxwell – Alexander the Great: the invisible enemy: a biography.
• Osborne, Catherine – Presocratic philosophy: a very short introduction.
• Pellegrino, Charles R. – Unearthing Atlantis: an archaeological odyssey to the fabled lost civilization.
• Perrottet, Tony – The naked Olympics: the true story of the ancient games.
• Perrottet, Tony – Pagan holiday: on the trail of ancient Roman tourists.
• Phelps, Michael – No Limits: The Will to Succeed.
• Phillips, Graham – Alexander the Great: Murder in Babylon.
• Pickover, Clifford A. – Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them.
• Plutarch – Greek lives: a selection of nine Greek lives.
• Poirier-Bures, Simone – That shining place.
• Pomeroy, Sarah B. – The murder of Regilla: a case of domestic violence in antiquity.
• Prevas, John – Envy of the Gods: Alexander the Great's ill-fated journey across Asia.
• Raeburn, Nancy – Mykonos.
• Raphael, Frederic – Some Talk of Alexander: A Journey Through Space and Time in the Greek World.
• Renault, Mary – The Nature of Alexander.
• Rodgers, Nigel – The rise and fall of ancient Greece: the military and political History of the ancient Greeks from the fall of Troy, the Persian Wars and the Battle of Marathon to the campaigns of Alexan.
• Rogers, Guy MacLean – Alexander: the ambiguity of greatness.
• Sarrinikalaou, George – Facing Athens: encounters with the modern city.
• Saunders, Nicholas J. – Alexander's Tomb: the two thousand year obsession to find the lost conqueror.
• Scott, Michael – From democrats to kings: the brutal dawn of a new world from the downfall of Athens to the rise of Alexander the Great.
• Seferis, George – Six Nights on the Acropolis.
• Sidebottom, Harry – Ancient Warfare: a very short introduction.
• Silver, Vernon – The lost chalice: the epic hunt for a priceless masterpiece.
• Simon, Bennet – Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece: The Classical Roots of Modern Psychiatry ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

• Sissa, Giulia - Sex and sensuality in the ancient world.
• Spawforth, Antony - The complete Greek temples.
• Spivey, Nigel Jonathan – The Ancient Olympics: War minus the shooting.
• Stefano, Maggi – Greece: history and treasures of an ancient civilization.
• Stone, Tom – The summer of my Greek taverna.
• Stone, Tom – Zeus: a journey through Greece in the footsteps of a god.
• Stoneman, Richard – Alexander the Great: a life in legend.
• Strauss, Barry S. – The Battle of Salamis: the naval encounter that saved Greece — and Western civilization.
• Strauss, Barry S. – The Trojan War: a new history.
• Taylor, C. C. W. – Socrates: a very short introduction.
• Taylour, William – The Mycenaeans.
• Thompson, Michael – Granicus 334 BC: Alexander's first Persian victory.
• Thubron, Colin – The Ancient Mariners.
• Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War.
• Thucydides – The landmark Thucydides: a comprehensive guide to the Peloponnesian War.
• Thucydides – The Peloponnesian War: a new translation, backgrounds, interpretations.
• Treston, Hubert Joseph, Poine: a study in ancient Greek blood-vengeance. Published United Kingdom: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923
• Van der Kiste, John – Kings of the Hellenes: the Greek Kings, 1863–1974.
• Vandenberg, Philipp – Mysteries of the oracles: the last secrets of antiquity.
• Veyne, Paul – Bread and circuses: historical sociology and political pluralism.
• Vickers, Hugo – Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece.
• Vlanton, Elias – Who killed George Polk?: the press covers up a death in the family.
• von Däniken, Erich – Odyssey of the Gods — An Alien History of Ancient Greece.
• Vrettos, Theodore – The Elgin affair: the abduction of Antiquity's greatest treasures and the passions it aroused.
• Wallechinsky, David – The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics: Athens 2004.
• Warry, John Gibson – Warfare in the classical world: an illustrated encyclopedia of weapons, warriors, and warfare in the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome.
• Wasson, R. Gordon – The Road to Eleusus: Unveiling the Secret of the mysteries.
• Waterfield, Robin – Athens: From Ancient Ideal to Modern City.
• Waterfield, Robin – Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths.
• Watefield, Robin – Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age
• What life was like at the dawn of democracy: classical Athens, 525–322 BC.
• Wheatley, Nadia – The Life and Myth of Chairman Clift.
• Wood, Ellen Meiksins – Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
• Wood, Michael – In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: a journey from Greece to Asia.
• Woodruff, Paul – First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea.
• Wright, William – All the pain that money can buy: the life of Christina Onassis.
• Xenophon – The Expedition of Cyrus.
• Xenophon – The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika: a new translation.
• Xenophon – The Persian Expedition.
• Zinovieff, Sofka – Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens.

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