Greece category: 2003 books

Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps. Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece. "Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times.

Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps. Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece. "Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times.

A true story set on Greece's real 'Mamma Mia' island of Skopelos. Comic and tragic by turns, Aegean Dream is a story of love, resilience, and the power of friendship. A compelling window on the daily life of a small Greek island and the spirit of its people, this book also provides striking...

"An Evzon is murdered by an unknown sniper at Syntagma Square during the changing of the guard ... Who is trying to derail the country? Who is trying to create chaos? A strange series of events unfolds as the National Intelligence Agency attempts to identify the perpetrators. What...

One breath of fresh air with its scent of wild flowers will endear you to the Greek island of Kos.  Kos combines ancient history with medieval romance and just a pinch of near-eastern mystery. Yet, at the same time, there is the underlying simplicity of Greek village life, the olive groves that...

Look over the Aegean Sea from the top of one of the bleached-white buildings of Mykonos. The homes and churches of this exotic Greek island appear to cascade down the hillside into the sea which then converges with the sky in a mixture of beautiful blue.    TABLE OF CONTENTS:  Introduction...

Food and drink, along with the material culture involved in their consumption, can signify a variety of social distinctions, identities and values. Thus, in Early Minoan Knossos, tableware was used to emphasize the difference between the host and the guests, and at Mycenaean Pylos the status of banqueters...

Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city’s founder and his dependence on Delphi, the...

The myths of the twelve gods, the lesser gods, the heroes - both panhellenic and local - and the mythical campaigns, as they were recorded by the ancient Greeks and described by their poets, are brought alive in this book and transport the reader into an enchanted fantasy world. Gods ''in the image...

A fantastic look at the great Ancient Greek authors. Covers Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato and Demosthenes.

Here Sian Lewis considers the full range of female existence in classical Greece - childhood and old age, unfree and foreign status, and the ageless woman characteristic of Athenian red-figure painting. Ceramics are an unparalleled resource for women's lives in ancient Greece, since they show...

In 1967 a young American sculptor and his family booked passage on a freight ship and moved to Greece, long before there was a European Union or Euros and the drachma was still the currency. This is the story of the family’s pivotal years first in the mountain villages of the Peloponnesus and then...

The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed a shared mode of knowledge production. Bodily Arts examines this intriguing intersection, offering...

Located in the Aegean Sea, the Greek island of Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese Islands.  This open-air museum benefits from over 3000 years of history and attracts over one million visitors yearly. With lots of sunshine, sandy beaches, medieval castles, a party-till-you-drop nightlife,...