Greece Books


Fabulae Graecae: Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles Best Price: $26.75	The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others (Opus) Best Price: $11.50 This book is a set text on the MA in Classical Studies I am currently doing. It is certainly...	The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Revealing Antiquity) Best Price: $17.80 First, let's make clear what Burkert does NOT say. This book does not argue that the Greeks are...	The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens Best Price: $8.50 For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than...	Iliad, Book 1 Best Price: $21.55 This is a perfect introduction to Homer in Greek. As described in another review, about 15-20...



Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture Best Price: $27.33 In today's cosmopolitan world, ethnic and national identity has assumed an ever-increasing...	Greek People Best Price: $41.95 Greek History at its best. The author hit the jackpot with this book.I usually hate history...	The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World Best Price: $13.70 "No one can fail to admire the brilliance of the connections Vidal-Naquet suggests......	Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece (Mentor) Best Price: $3.26 My son had to read this book for his school's summer reading program. He's going into 9th...	The Epic City: Urbanism, Utopia, and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome (Hellenic Studies) Best Price: $18.72 As Greek and Trojan forces battled in the shadow of Troy's wall, Hephaistos created a wondrous,...



The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests Best Price: $38.49 In the annals of Marxist historiograph, I believe this book could and should be ranked among the...	The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World (Oxford Handbooks) Best Price: $115.59 In most ways this is an Oxford book of the kind I have come to love: well designed and printed,...	Early Christianity (Classical Foundations) Best Price: $23.00 Examining sources and case studies, this fascinating book explores early Christianity, how it...	Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans Best Price: $10.00 There are good and bad things to say about William Hansen's Classical Mythology: A Guide to the...	Ancient Greece and Rome : An Encyclopedia for Students Best Price: $582.85

Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece Best Price: $48.00 I bought this book as soon as it came out. I became a fan of S.I. Johnston as soon as I read her...	Voyage to Atlantis: The Discovery of a Legendary Land Best Price: $3.00 Excellent book. Well written and the facts seem to strongly support the author's theories. It...	Myth and Society in Ancient Greece Best Price: $11.00 This book is the third volume of Jean-Pierre Vernant's work on myth and its connections beyond. ...	Rome and the Greek East to the Death of Augustus (Translated Documents of Greece and Rome) Best Price: $35.24 This is a collection in English translation of Greek and Latin sources for the study of Greek...	The Oracle: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Messages of Ancient Delphi Best Price: $1.99 This book is great for anyone researching the Delphinic Oracle tradition. It also sheds light...

A Day in the Life of Ancient Athens Best Price: $14.70 A Day in the Life of Ancient Athens sets out to answer some of the questions often posed by...	The Oxford Classical Dictionary The Oxford Classical Dictionary was newly edited. Of course I admit that second edition of the...	The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History Best Price: $23.00 I'm working toward a summer version of the Intro to Greek History Course so I checked out this...	Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great (Canto) Best Price: $8.00 Not spectacular but what I did like was the attempt to go beyond a narration of the various...	Handbook To Life In Ancient Greece (Handbook to Life) Best Price: $70.00 Lesley and Roy Adkins' book on Greek civilization is a thourough categorical text covering...

Hellenistic and Roman Sparta (States and Cities of Ancient Greece) Best Price: $34.94 First of all, amazon.ca has made a mistake in the title of this book, which should read:...A...	The Mycenaeans Best Price: $17.14 For almost three thousand years, the Mycenaeans, ancestors of the classical Greeks, lay lost and...	Magic, Reason and Experience: Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science This book is a study of the origins and development of Greek science, focusing especially on the...	Democracy and Classical Greece, Second Edition Best Price: $12.00 I have been interested in history since I was young. As a boy, I heard so much about things in...	The Wisdom of Alexander the Great: Enduring Leadership Lessons From the Man Who Created an Empire Best Price: $1.95 Alexander the Great ascended the throne at age 20, unified Greece in less than two years, and...

Plato: Laches. Protagoras. Meno. Euthdemus. (Loeb Classical Library No. 165) Best Price: $21.50 Like most volumes in the Loeb series, the emphasis is not on word-for-word precision in the...	Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks (The Daily Life Through History Series) Best Price: $14.95 Garland does an outstanding job of presenting a readable, easily understandable overview of...	Alexander the Great: The Man Who Brought the World to Its Knees Best Price: $5.98 Michael Alvear has givien us another biography of Alexander, and it's a fun read. I don't agree...	The Trojan War Best Price: $15.25 One of the persistent and compelling stories of Western Civilization is the legend of the Trojan...	Beautiful City: The Dialectical Character of Plato's Republic Best Price: $38.52 To the vast literature on Plato's Republic comes a new interpretation. In Beautiful City ,...

The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook : Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World Best Price: $15.00 Ever hear of the ancient mystery religions from the ancient mediterranean world that supposedly...	Xenophon, I, Hellenica: Books 1-4 (Loeb Classical Library?) Best Price: $19.99 Xenophon was a wealthy and noble gentleman living in the countryside, devoted to farming and...	The Tomb of Agamemnon (Wonders of the World) Best Price: $11.25 Part of the Wonders of the World Series of small format books on famous sites. "The Mask...	The Ancient Greek World (The World in Ancient Times) Best Price: $25.98 Though this book was good in a lot of ways, it was not as complete as I had hoped it would. It...	The Classical Cookbook Best Price: $16.07 Excellent book for both its recipes (easy to follow with directions given for both the English...

Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) Best Price: $5.95 Sexual Culture In Ancient Greece adds to the university's series in classical culture, but...	Socrates Against Athens: Philosophy on Trial Best Price: $22.18 Prof. Colaiaco teaches in the Great Books program at NYU. His experience teaching high-level...	The Greenleaf Guide to Famous Men of Greece Best Price: $5.35 Brought ancient Greece and the Greek culture come alive for our three kids (12,11, 7)....	The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome Best Price: $22.50 I thoroughly enjoyed reading "The Ancient City". Despite being fairly well read on the...	The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum) Best Price: $23.25 This book is a must have for anybody visiting Magna Graecia area in Italy. Major excavation...

Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC (Routledge History of the Ancient World) Best Price: $38.91 Robin Osborne's Greece in the Making is a generally excellent, albeit somewhat advanced,...	Alpha to Omega: The Life & Times of the Greek Alphabet Best Price: $12.71 We have here an interesting and at times a far-reaching exploration of word origins. At times,...	A Short Introduction to Classical Myth Best Price: $47.13 A Short Introduction to Classical Myth by Barry B. Powell was used in my Greek and Roman...	Ancient Greek Athletics Best Price: $17.02 The earliest Olympic games began more than twenty-five-hundred years ago. What were they like,...	Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going On Together Best Price: $17.83 How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book...

Euripides, VII, Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager (Loeb Classical Library?) Best Price: $23.80 Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 bce survive in a...	Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus' Enneads (S U N Y Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy) Best Price: $24.69 The first book-length philosophical study on the Presocratic influences in Plotinus' Enneads.	The Athenian Grain-Tax Law of 374/3 B.C (Hesperia Supplement) Best Price: $35.00	Treasures of the Ancients Best Price: $8.53 There is a bit of history to be gleaned from this book but most of the writing is not his own...	Artemis: Virgin Goddess of the Sun & Moon--A Comprehensive Guide to the Greek Goddess of the Hunt, Her Myths, Powers & Mysteries Best Price: $18.20 I wasn't sure what to expect when I ordered this book from Amazon...this isn't really a book...

Plutarch Lives, II: Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus (Loeb Classical Library?) Best Price: $23.91 Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45-120 CE , was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece,...	Discoveries Search for Ancient Greece Best Price: $2.95 Tells the importance and histoical information about ancient greece, I recomend this book to anyoe.

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