Greece category: 2003 books

Long, long ago, more than six hundred years before the time of Christ, the Greek city of Athens had gone to war with Megara to get possession of the island of Salamis. The war had lasted so long that every one was tired of it; the poorer men, because they had to leave their farms for their wives and...

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

He was destined to rule the world ... A prince is born under a star of good fortune. It is prophesied that he will become the greatest king of all time. Alexander grows up to fulfil this destiny - powerful as a lion, skilled in the art of war and leader of a vast army. Soon his fame...

This outstanding introductory survey collects, presents and examines, for the very first time, the portraits and representations of Alexander the Great on the ancient coins of the Greek and Roman period. From 320 BC to AD 400, Karsten Dahmen examines not only Alexander’s own coinage and the...

Stephen Scully both offers a reading of Hesiod's Theogony and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's own creation myth, which sought to "soar above th' Aonian Mount [i.e., the Theogony]...and justify the ways of God...

Ancient Greek culture is pervaded by a profound ambivalence regarding female beauty. It is an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction; yet it also grants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat inseparable from...

The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving rhetorical...

How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together. Providing a new...

The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the basis...

An easy-to-use phrasebook, vocabulary and dictionary reference for anyone interested in learning (Modern) Greek or just getting down the basics in a wide array of situations: Problems, Numbers, Emergencies, Time, Days, Months, Color, Getting Around, Eating, Drinking, Shopping, Accommodation, and even more. Perfect for beginners. Ideal for travelers.

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the beautiful city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Dubrovnik is one of the most prominent tourist resorts on the Mediterranean coast and is nicknamed "Pearl of the Adriatic" and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Dubrovnik is the proudest feather...

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Esta es una de las pocas obras de Esquilo que ha sobrevivido a los siglos. Es una tragedia basada en la derrota de los persas en la batalla de Salamina, el punto de viraje que termino con los sueños de dominación de Jerjes.

It has been one of those days. You've worked like a Trojan, displaying titanic strength and stoic endurance to overcome the Herculean labours that have faced you in order to meet that deadline. We regularly employ classically-derived expressions in our everyday language, yet many of us have little understanding...