Peter Green: 36 books
From Ikaria to the Stars
Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
"I hadn't, till I really started digging, gauged the fierce intensity of the need for myth in the human psyche, of any age, or sensed the variety of motives dictating that need," writes Peter Green in the introduction to this wide-ranging collection of essays on classical mythology and the mythic experience....
Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1
Greek History, 480-431 BC—the Alternative Version
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great. Yet this important historian has been consistently denigrated as a mere copyist...
Alexander to Actium
The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1990
The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few...
Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens
Books 11-14.34 (480-401 BCE)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Only one surviving source provides a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great—the Bibliotheke, or "Library," produced by Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 90-30 BCE). Yet generations of scholars have...
by Peter Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1996
This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis *in the U.S.
The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached...
by Peter Green
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
The Hellenistic era witnessed the overlap of antiquity’s two great Western civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. This was the epoch of Alexander’s vast expansion of the Greco-Macedonian world, the rise and fall of his successors’ major dynasties in Egypt and Asia, and, ultimately, the establishment...
The Shadow of the Parthenon
Studies in Ancient History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "democracy" of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool...
Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.
A Historical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise...
March East 1945
The Final Days of Oflag IX A/H and A/Z
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
During the final days of the Second World War, for 900 Allied officers, held by the Germans in Oflag IX A/H and Oflag IX A/Z, freedom was still a world away. Marched east by their captors, away from the liberating American forces, March and April 1945 was a time of great trials, at the mercy of vengeful...
by Peter Green
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
50 Cool Ideas for Your Google Classroom
Google Classroom is a neat and effective tool that is making strides in the Education Sector. Google Classroom is a part of a larger suite, G Suite for Education. It essentially helps teachers save time, keep students organized, and improve communication...
by Peter H. Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
Under the thugs’ constant guard, she has little chance to contact the outside and escape. But due to her mistrust of her father and the authorities and secret she can’t even tell him, she is afraid a desperate call to the outside help would result in a deadly showdown. Because she must rescue...
by Peter H. Green, Alice H. Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
This eyewitness account of World War II social history, women's progress and the Golden Years of Radio are woven into one woman's humorous and poignant autobiography of her family struggles and her attempts to fulfill her creative dreams.This book is richly illustrated with 50 historical photographs...
Celiac Disease (Newly Revised and Updated)
A Hidden Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
From Dr. Peter H.R. Green, internationally renowned expert on celiac disease and director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, and medical writer Rory Jones, this is the definitive book on celiac disease, one of the most underdiagnosed autoimmune diseases in the U.S.
Do you...
Gluten Exposed
The Science Behind the Hype and How to Navigate to a Healthy, Symptom-Free Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Gluten Exposed is the one book you should read if you are on a gluten-free diet or plan to go gluten-free. In this comprehensive guide, Dr. Peter H.R. Green, director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, and medical writer Rory Jones reveal the real scientific story behind gluten;...