Greece category: 2003 books

When you enter Greece's mountainous peninsula, with its long coastline and unique archipelago, you are returning to the cradle of Western civilization. And while the ancient Greeks fashioned our political, ethical, aesthetic, and scientific values, their descendants down the ages have continued to...

Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. Greece is the ultimate Mediterranean getaway. Impossibly blue seas, gorgeous beaches, whitewashed alleyways draped in pink bougainvillea,...

Women in Ancient Greece is a much-needed analysis of how women behaved in Greek society, how they were regarded, and the restrictions imposed on their actions. Given that ancient Greece was very much a man’s world, most books on ancient Greek society tend to focus on men; this book redresses the...

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. This belief was not without its grounds...Indeed this was...

First published in 1954, this is the Second Edition of the single-volume amalgamation of husband-and-wife team Marjorie and Charles Quinnells’ three-volume anthology on Greek antiquity, originally between 1929-1932: Everyday Things in Homeric Greece, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece, and Everyday...

  Greece is a land of natural forces boldly traced in fierce mountain ranges. A land blessed with a richness of flora and a wealth of people; a land where a glorious past fashioned in rock invades the present. It offers glimpses of the past in the remains from civilisations which thrived...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Corfu, Greece. Corfu is the northernmost of the Ionian Islands in Greece. Located off the far northwest coast of Greece, Corfu lies in the Adriatic sea, east of Italy and southwest of Albania. Historically Corfu has been controlled by many foreign powers,...

  Enjoy your trip to Greece with the Lefkada Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.   The Quick Trips to Greece Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...

  Enjoy your trip to Greece with the Santorini Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.   The Quick Trips to Greece Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...

Greece possesses a simple, ancient beauty, and one of the best places to experience this is on the radiant island of Crete. It is Greece's largest island, and arguably its most magnificent. With 5,000 years of history, breathtaking landscapes, and countless attractions, there's no end to Crete's appeal....

  Enjoy your trip to Greece with the Corfu Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.   The Quick Trips to Greece Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination of...

Greece is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations with sunny weather, vibrant nightlife, ancient sites and awesome beauty.  Greece has an extensive coastline with fantastic beaches and lovely islands set in the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean Seas.  Crete is Greece's largest...

One of the world’s leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in Greece Over the last six years, Greece has provided the world with “an open-air political lesson.” The country’s deep economic and social crisis has exposed the fundamental contradictions...

  Enjoy your trip to Greece with the Kefalonia Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.   The Quick Trips to Greece Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...