Greece category: 2003 books

The study of military history is a vital component of Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) as a complement to the study of Joint Doctrine. The Joint Military Operations Historical Collection (JMOHC) illustrates principles of Joint Doctrine and Joint Force Employment through historical and...

This paper examines the battle of Teutoburg (9 A.D.), its consequences on the Roman world, and the role cultural misunderstanding played on the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. The Roman commander’s cultural misunderstanding of his enemy caused mistakes at the operational and tactical...

In this volume I have attempted to give especial and marked attention to the fate of Greek science in late antiquity. Elementary texts in the past have long ignored this aspect of Greek science. The importance of the course of Greek science in late antiquity is evident, for it was during this period...

First published in 1931, this book by archaeologist David Randall-MacIver provides a detailed description of Greek architectural sites in southern Italy and Sicily, together with narratives on the cities where the sites are found, including their mythologies and most famous citizens, visitors and...

First published in 1940, this is one of the great classics of Atlantis research. It amasses a great deal of archaeological, anthropological, historical and scientific evidence in support of a lost continent in the Atlantic Ocean. Braghine covers such diverse topics as Egyptians in Central America,...

Originally published in 1908, this is an account of the Sarcophagus of Seti I., written by E. A. Wallis Budge, M.A., Litt.D., Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum. Dr. Budge includes in his comprehensive essay a description of the tomb in which the Sarcophagus was...

A MIGHTY NOVEL OF PERSECUTION AND MASSACRE AND A LOVE THAT DEFIED DEATH! THEY MET IN JERUSALEM A young Greek doctor, devoted to the pleasures of the senses and the intellect, and a passionate, pious daughter of Israel. Hopelessly in love, their beliefs were irreconcilable—until the...

Zakynthos, also known as Zante, offers miles of golden beaches gentle lapped by shallow seas, It is an island ideal for a relaxing family holiday. Adventurers can discover much more. Overlanding to Smugglers cove, boating to the Blue caves, searching out hidden coves or wandering through Venetian...

Romantics will find nothing to excite them in the sprawling metropolis of modern Athens, nothing until they reach the very heart. At the very centre lies one of the oldest cities in the world with stones and memories rolling back over 3,400 years. A powerful city-state in Classical times, Pericles...

El Prometeo y la Orestíada de Esquilo son el aliento épico de Grecia en el teatro. Sófocles alcanza con su Antígona la cumbre de la trágica griega, son una penetrante mirada sobre la condición humana. Eurípides se caracteriza por la pintura de los estados pasionales, que alcanza en Medea su...

English-Greek phrasebook and 1500-word concise dictionary The collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Books is designed for people traveling abroad for tourism and business. The phrasebooks contain what matters most - the essentials for basic...

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair...

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly...