Bibliography of Greece

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This bibliography of Greece is a list of books in the English language which reliable sources indicate relate to the general topic of Greece.

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  • Alexander, Caroline – The war that killed Achilles: the true story of Homer's Iliad.
  • Alexander the Great: a new history.
  • Alexander the Great: selected texts from Arrian, Curtius and Plutarch.
  • Annas, JuliaAncient philosophy: a very short introduction.
  • Annas, Julia – Plato: a very short introduction.
  • AristotlePolitics.
  • Armstrong, KarenThe great transformation: the beginning of our religious traditions.
  • Atsaides, Susie – Greek generations: a medley of ethnic recipes, folklore, and village traditions.
  • Bagnall, NigelThe Peloponnesian War: Athens, Sparta and the struggle for Greece.
  • Barnes, JonathanAristotle: a very short introduction.
  • Beard, MaryThe Parthenon.
  • Beaton, Roderick – George Seferis: waiting for the angel: a biography.
  • Barard, Claude – A city of images: iconography and society in ancient Greece.
  • Bernal, MartinBlack Athena writes back: Martin Bernal responds to his critics.
  • Bertman, Stephen – The genesis of science: the story of Greek imagination.
  • Billows, Richard A.Marathon: the battle that changed western civilization.
  • Bowden, Hugh – Mystery cults of the ancient world.
  • Bowlby, Linda S. – Renaissance woman: a study of women's roles throughout history with accompanying works of art.
  • Bradford, Ernie – Thermopylae: the battle for the West.
  • Brewer, David – Greece, the hidden centuries: Turkish rule from the fall of Constantinople to Greek independence.
  • Broad, William J.The oracle: ancient Delphi and the science behind its lost secrets.
  • Budin, Stephanie Lynn – The ancient Greeks: an introduction.
  • Burckhardt, JacobThe Greeks and Greek civilization.
  • Buxton, R. G. A. – The complete world of Greek mythology.
  • Cahill, ThomasSailing the wine-dark sea: why the Greeks matter.
  • Camp, John – The Athenian Agora: excavations in the heart of classical Athens.
  • Camp, John – The world of the ancient Greeks.
  • Cantor, Norman F.Alexander the Great: journey to the end of the earth.
  • Cantor, Norman F. – Antiquity: from the birth of Sumerian civilization to the fall of the Roman Empire.
  • Capponi, Niccolo – The victory of the west: the great Christian-Muslim clash at the battle of Lepanto.
  • Carroll, Michael – An island in Greece: on the shores of Skopelos.
  • Cartledge, PaulAlexander the Great: the hunt for a new past.
  • Cartledge, Paul – Ancient Greece: a history in eleven cities.
  • Cartledge, Paul – The Spartans: the world of the warrior-heroes of ancient Greece, from utopia to crisis and collapse.
  • Cartledge, Paul – Thermopylae: the battle that changed the world.
  • Castleden, Rodney – Minoans: life in Bronze Age Crete.
  • Castleden, Rodney – Mycenaeans.
  • Clark, BruceTwice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey.
  • Connelly, Joan BretonPortrait of a priestess: women and ritual in ancient Greece.
  • Connolly, PeterGreece and Rome at war.
  • Cottrell, LeonardThe bull of Minos: the great discoveries of ancient Greece.
  • Crane, DavidLord Byron's jackal: a life of Edward John Trelawny.
  • Crowley, Roger – Empires of the sea: the siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the contest for the center of the world.
  • Cunliffe, Barry W. – The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek.
  • Curtis, Gregory – Disarmed: the story of the Venus de Milo.
  • Dalby, AndrewRediscovering Homer: inside the origins of the epic.
  • Davidson, James N. – Courtesans & fishcakes: the consuming passions of classical Athens.
  • Davidson, James N. – The Greeks and Greek love: a bold new exploration of the ancient world.
  • Davis, L. J.Onassis: Aristotle and Christina.
  • Dempster, NigelHeiress: the story of Christina Onassis.
  • Dinsmoor, William BellThe architecture of ancient Greece: an account of its historic development.
  • Dodge, Theodore AyraultAlexander: a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the Battle of Ipsus, 301 BC, with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian.
  • Doherty, P. C.The death of Alexander the Great: what – or who --really killed the young conqueror of the known world?
  • Durando, Furio – Ancient Greece: the dawn of the Western world.
  • Durrell, LawrenceBlue thirst.
  • Durrell, Lawrence – The Greek Islands.
  • Durrell, Lawrence – The Lawrence Durrell travel reader.
  • Durrell, Lawrence – Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra.
  • Durrell, Lawrence – Reflections on a marine Venus: a companion to the landscape of Rhodes.
  • Emerson, Mary – Greek sanctuaries: an introduction.
  • Evans, Peter – Ari: the life and times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis.
  • Evans, Peter – Nemesis: the true story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the love triangle that brought down the Kennedys.
  • Ferguson, KittyThe music of Pythagoras: how an ancient brotherhood cracked the code of the universe and lit the path from antiquity to outer space.
  • Fermor, Patrick LeighMani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
  • Fermor, Patrick Leigh – Roumeli: travels in northern Greece.
  • Fields, Nic – Ancient Greek fortifications 500—300 BC.
  • Fone, Byrne R. S. – Homophobia: a history.
  • Foreman, Laura – Alexander the conqueror: the epic story of the warrior king.
  • Fox, Robin LaneAlexander the Great.
  • Fox, Robin Lane – Travelling heroes: in the epic age of Homer.
  • France, Peter – A place of healing for the soul: Patmos.
  • Freely, JohnAladdin's lamp: how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world.
  • Freeman, Charles – The Greek achievement: the foundation of the Western world.
  • Freeman, Philip – The philosopher and the Druids: a journey among the ancient Celts.
  • Freke, TimothyThe Jesus mysteries: Was the 'Original Jesus' a Pagan God?
  • Fuller, J. F. C.The generalship of Alexander the Great.
  • Gage, Eleni N. – North of Ithaka: a journey home through a family's extraordinary past.
  • Gage, NicholasEleni.
  • Gage, Nicholas – Greek fire: the story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis.
  • Gage, Nicholas – A place for us.
  • Gere, Cathy – Knossos and the prophets of modernism.
  • Gere, Cathy – The tomb of Agamemnon.
  • Gerolymatos, AndreRed acropolis, black terror: the Greek Civil War and the origins of Soviet-American rivalry.
  • Glatt, John – Blind passion: a true story of seduction, obsession, and murder.
  • Grainger, John D. – Alexander the great failure: the collapse of the Macedonian Empire.
  • Grant, MichaelThe founders of the western world: a history of Greece and Rome.
  • Grant, Michael – The rise of the Greeks.
  • Grant, Michael – The visible past: an archaeological reinterpretation of the ancient world.
  • The great naturalists.
  • Greece: temples, tombs, & treasures.
  • Greece: true stories.
  • Green, PeterAlexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: a historical biography.
  • Green, Peter – Ancient Greece: an illustrated history.
  • Green, Peter – The Hellenistic age: a history.
  • Green, Roger – Hydra and the bananas of Leonard Cohen: a search for serenity in the sun.
  • Hale, John R. – Lords of the sea: the epic story of the Athenian navy and the birth of democracy.
  • Hamel, DebraTrying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece.
  • Hamilton, EdithThe Greek way.
  • Hanson, Victor DavisA War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War.
  • Hanson, Victor Davis – Ripples of Battle: How Wars Fought Long Ago Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think.
  • Hanson, Victor Davis – The Wars of the Ancient Greeks: And the Invention of Western Military Culture.
  • Hanson, Victor Davis – The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western CivilizationHanson VD (1999) The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 596 p.
  • Harrison, Thomas – Greek religion: belief and experience.
  • HerodotusThe Histories.
  • Herodotus – Snakes with wings and gold-digging ants.
  • Higgins, CharlotteIt's All Greek to Me: from Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, how Ancient Greece has shaped our world.
  • Hill, Maria – Diggers and Greeks: the Australian campaigns in Greece and Crete.
  • Hillman, D. C. A. – The chemical muse: drug use and the roots of Western civilization.
  • Hirshfeld, Alan – Eureka man: the life and legacy of Archimedes.
  • Hitchens, ChristopherThe Elgin marbles: should they be returned to Greece?
  • Hoffman, Susanna – The olive and the caper: adventures in Greek cooking.
  • Holland, TomPersian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West.
  • HomerThe Odyssey.
  • Hopkins, T. C. F. – Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam.
  • Hughes, BettanyHelen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore.
  • Huler, Scott – No man's lands: one man's odyssey through The Odyssey.
  • Kagan, DonaldThe Peloponnesian War.
  • Kagan, Donald – Pericles of Athens and the birth of democracy.
  • Kagan, Donald – Thucydides: the reinvention of history.
  • Kakis, Frederic J. – Legacy of courage: a Holocaust survival story in Greece.
  • Keuls, Eva C. – The reign of the phallus: sexual politics in ancient Athens.
  • Kidd, Sue MonkTraveling with Pomegranates: a mother daughter story.
  • Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth – For the love of women: gender, identity and same-sex relations in a Greek provincial town.
  • Kulukundis, Elias – The feasts of memory: stories of a Greek family.
  • Kurke, Lance B. – The wisdom of Alexander the Great: enduring leadership lessons from the man who created an empire.
  • Lawrence, A. W.Greek architecture.
  • Leon, Vicki – How to mellify a corpse: and other human stories of ancient science & superstition.
  • Lloyd, AlanMarathon: the story of civilizations on collision course.
  • Lundberg, David – Olympic wandering: time travel through Greece.
  • MacKendrick, Paul LachlanThe Greek Stones Speak: the story of archaeology in Greek lands.
  • Marchand, Jo – Decoding the heavens: a 2,000-year-old computer – and the century-long search to discover its secrets.
  • Martin, Thomas R.Ancient Greece: from prehistoric to Hellenistic times.
  • Mason, DavidNews from the Village: Aegean friends.
  • Matyszak, PhilipThe classical compendium: a miscellany of scandalous gossip, bawdy jokes, peculiar facts, and bad behavior from the ancient Greeks and Romans.
  • Mazower, MarkSalonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430–1950.
  • Mazur, JosephThe Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space.
  • Michalopoulos, Dimitri, Homer's Odyssey beyond the myths, The Piraeus: Institute of Hellenic Maritime History, 2016. {{ISBN|978-618-80599-3-1}}
  • Michas|Michas, Takis]] – Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic's Serbia.
  • Miller, Stephen G.Ancient Greek athletics.
  • Moore-Pastides, Patricia – Greek revival: cooking for life.
  • Moorehead, CarolineLost and found: the 9,000 treasures of Troy: Heinrich Schliemann and the gold that got away.
  • Moutsatsos, Kiki Feroudi – The Onassis women: an eyewitness account.
  • Myer, Will – People of the storm god: travels in Macedonia.
  • Navia, Luis E. – Socrates: a life examined.
  • The New Acropolis Museum.
  • O'Brien, John Maxwell – Alexander the Great: the invisible enemy: a biography.
  • Osborne, Catherine – Presocratic philosophy: a very short introduction.
  • Pellegrino, Charles R.Unearthing Atlantis: an archaeological odyssey to the fabled lost civilization.
  • Perrottet, Tony – The naked Olympics: the true story of the ancient games.
  • Perrottet, Tony – Pagan holiday: on the trail of ancient Roman tourists.
  • Phelps, MichaelNo Limits: The Will to Succeed.
  • Phillips, GrahamAlexander the Great: Murder in Babylon.
  • Pickover, Clifford A.Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them.
  • PlutarchGreek lives: a selection of nine Greek lives.
  • Poirier-Bures, Simone – That shining place.
  • Pomeroy, Sarah B.The murder of Regilla: a case of domestic violence in antiquity.
  • Prevas, JohnEnvy of the Gods: Alexander the Great's ill-fated journey across Asia.
  • Raeburn, Nancy – Mykonos.
  • Raphael, FredericSome Talk of Alexander: A Journey Through Space and Time in the Greek World.
  • Renault, MaryThe Nature of Alexander.
  • Rodgers, Nigel – The rise and fall of ancient Greece: the military and political History of the ancient Greeks from the fall of Troy, the Persian Wars and the Battle of Marathon to the campaigns of Alexan.
  • Rogers, Guy MacLean – Alexander: the ambiguity of greatness.
  • Sarrinikalaou, George – Facing Athens: encounters with the modern city.
  • Saunders, Nicholas J.Alexander's Tomb: the two thousand year obsession to find the lost conqueror.
  • Scott, Michael – From democrats to kings: the brutal dawn of a new world from the downfall of Athens to the rise of Alexander the Great.
  • Seferis, GeorgeSix Nights on the Acropolis.
  • Sidebottom, HarryAncient Warfare: a very short introduction.
  • Silver, Vernon – The lost chalice: the epic hunt for a priceless masterpiece.
  • Simon, Bennet – Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece: The Classical Roots of Modern Psychiatry {{Cite journal|title = Bennett Simon, Mind and madness in ancient Greece; the Classical roots of modern psychiatry, Ithaca, N.Y., and London, Comell University Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. 336, illus., £12.25.|journal = Medical History|date = 1980-01-01|volume = 24|issue = 1|doi = 10.1017/s0025727300039843|first = Vivian|last = Nutton|pages=100–101|doi-access = free}}{{Cite journal|title = Review|journal = The American Journal of Philology|date = 1980-07-01|pages = 241–244|volume = 101|issue = 2|doi = 10.2307/294440|first = Penelope|last = Rainey|jstor=294440|pmc = 1082625}}{{Cite journal|title = Mind and madness in ancient Greece; the Classical roots of modern psychiatry|journal = Medical History|date = 1980-01-01|issn = 0025-7273|pmc = 1082625|pages = 100–101|volume = 24|issue = 1|first = Vivian|last = Nutton|doi=10.1017/s0025727300039843}}{{Cite journal|title = Mind and madness in ancient greece: The classical roots of modern psychiatry|journal = JAMA|date = 1981-03-06|issn = 0098-7484|pages = 100–101|volume = 245|issue = 9|doi = 10.1001/jama.1981.03310340055032|pmc = 1082625|last1 = Goldberg|first1 = Arnold}}
  • Sissa, Giulia - Sex and sensuality in the ancient world.
  • Spawforth, Antony - The complete Greek temples.
  • Spivey, Nigel JonathanThe Ancient Olympics: War minus the shooting.
  • Stefano, Maggi – Greece: history and treasures of an ancient civilization.
  • Stone, Tom – The summer of my Greek taverna.
  • Stone, Tom – Zeus: a journey through Greece in the footsteps of a god.
  • Stoneman, Richard – Alexander the Great: a life in legend.
  • Strauss, Barry S.The Battle of Salamis: the naval encounter that saved Greece — and Western civilization.
  • Strauss, Barry S. – The Trojan War: a new history.
  • Taylor, C. C. W. – Socrates: a very short introduction.
  • Taylour, William – The Mycenaeans.
  • Thompson, Michael – Granicus 334 BC: Alexander's first Persian victory.
  • Thubron, ColinThe Ancient Mariners.
  • ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War.
  • Thucydides – The landmark Thucydides: a comprehensive guide to the Peloponnesian War.
  • Thucydides – The Peloponnesian War: a new translation, backgrounds, interpretations.
  • Treston, Hubert Joseph, [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69344 Poine: a study in ancient Greek blood-vengeance]. Published United Kingdom: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923
  • Van der Kiste, JohnKings of the Hellenes: the Greek Kings, 1863–1974.
  • Vandenberg, Philipp – Mysteries of the oracles: the last secrets of antiquity.
  • Veyne, PaulBread and circuses: historical sociology and political pluralism.
  • Vickers, Hugo – Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece.
  • Vlanton, Elias – Who killed George Polk?: the press covers up a death in the family.
  • von Däniken, ErichOdyssey of the Gods — An Alien History of Ancient Greece.
  • Vrettos, Theodore – The Elgin affair: the abduction of Antiquity's greatest treasures and the passions it aroused.
  • Wallechinsky, DavidThe Complete Book of the Summer Olympics: Athens 2004.
  • Warry, John Gibson – Warfare in the classical world: an illustrated encyclopedia of weapons, warriors, and warfare in the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome.
  • Wasson, R. GordonThe Road to Eleusus: Unveiling the Secret of the mysteries.
  • Waterfield, RobinAthens: From Ancient Ideal to Modern City.
  • Waterfield, Robin – Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths.
  • Watefield, Robin – Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age
  • What life was like at the dawn of democracy: classical Athens, 525–322 BC.
  • Wheatley, NadiaThe Life and Myth of Chairman Clift.
  • Wood, Ellen MeiksinsCitizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
  • Wood, MichaelIn the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: a journey from Greece to Asia.
  • Woodruff, PaulFirst Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea.
  • Wright, William – All the pain that money can buy: the life of Christina Onassis.
  • XenophonThe Expedition of Cyrus.
  • Xenophon – The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika: a new translation.
  • Xenophon – The Persian Expedition.
  • Zinovieff, SofkaEurydice Street: A Place in Athens.

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