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The World of the Ancient Greeks

by John Camp | Elizabeth Fisher

• HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES
• CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
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Featuring hundreds of illustrations and inviting short chapters on topics from The First Greeks to The Heroic Age and Classical Athens. With modern color photographs of great ancient cities from Athens and Delphi to Knossos, Ephesus, Pergamum and Priene. (GRE365, $24.95)

A Short History of Byzantium

by John Julius Norwich

• HISTORY
• 1998
• PAPER
• 432 PAGES

A richly detailed and evocative history of the tumultuous span of the great empire from the fourth century to the 15th, brimming with intrigue, skullduggery, palace revolution and other treachery. (TKY18, $19.00)

The Parthenon

by Mary Beard

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2010
• PAPER
• 204 PAGES

A lively tale of the construction, significance and many uses of the 2,500-year-old architectural marvel. (GRE195, $15.50)

The Colossus of Maroussi

by Henry Miller

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2010
• PAPER
• 223 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Miller captures the spirit and warmth of the resilient Greek people in this inspired tale of a wartime journey from Athens to Crete, Corfu and Delphi with his friend Lawrence Durrell. (GRE05, $12.95)

Greece Map

by Michelin

• 2011
• MAP

A colorful shaded map of Greece, the Greek Islands and the western coast of Turkey at a scale of 1:800,000. (GRE24, $12.95)

 

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Eyewitness Guide Greek Islands

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 408 PAGES

Color photography, excellent local maps and an island-by-island synopsis of attractions make this book the one to carry with you. (GRE37, $28.00)

Eyewitness Guide Istanbul

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2013
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES
• BEST SELLER

This superb guide to Istanbul features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (TKY86, $25.00)

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece

by Robert Morkot

• REFERENCE
• 1997
• PAPER
• 144 PAGES

This pictorial survey of Greek antiquity, recording its culture and expansion, features dozens of full-color maps. (GRE125, $20.00)

1453, The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

by Roger Crowley

• HISTORY
• 2006
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES

In this well-paced history, Crowley recounts with drama the events surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. (TKY114, $15.99)

Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History

by Seton Lloyd

• HISTORY
• 2013
• PAPER
• 240 PAGES

A lively tale of cultures and conquest, from the Hittites to St. Paul, that illuminates the living past of Turkey's archaeological treasures, this classic by professor Seton Lloyd, first director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, is now in a 25th anniversary edition. With maps, drawings, site plans and a photographs. (TKY43, $31.95)

Crescent and Star

by Stephen Kinzer

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2008
• PAPER
• 265 PAGES

This insightful anecdotal report on contemporary life, culture and politics in Turkey comes from a former New York Times Istanbul bureau chief, who is especially attuned to the powerful geographic position of Turkey and its multiple identities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. (TKY64, $17.00)

Ill Met by Moonlight

by W. Stanley Moss

• HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 212 PAGES

Better than fiction, Moss tells the story of the audacious World War II kidnapping of the German commander of occupied Crete with Patrick Leigh Fermor and fellow S.O.E. officers. Dirk Bogarde played PLF in the Powell movie. (GRE465, $14.95)

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Why the Greeks Matter

by Thomas Cahill

• HISTORY
• 2004
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

Cahill brings to life ancient Greek society and civilization through the lives and words of politicians, playwrights, a poet, philosopher and artist in this eloquent and absorbing tribute. (GRE182, $17.00)

The Ancient Mediterranean

by Michael Grant

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1990
• PAPER
• 374 PAGES

Grant explores the realms of archaeology, geography, art and economics to sketch this classic portrait of the ancient world, from prehistory through the Roman Imperium, and the influence on western civilization. (MED10, $20.00)

The Classical World

by Robin Lane Fox

• HISTORY
• 2008
• PAPER
• 656 PAGES

From Homer to Hadrian, Fox conjures tyrants, conquerors and enthralling personalities in this marvelously written history of ancient Greece and Rome. (GRE293, $19.99)

The Middle Sea

by John Julius Norwich

• HISTORY
• 2007
• PAPER
• 720 PAGES

A marvelous writer who has already tackled Byzantium, the Normans in Sicily and Venice, Norwich spins his magic in this story of culture, trade and politics, royalty and rulers, wars and religion in the Mediterranean. (MED98, $21.00)

Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and History

by Marina Belozerskaya | Kenneth Lapatin

• ARCHAEOLOGY
• 2004
• PAPER
• 144 PAGES

This lively illustrated guide covers the architecture, painting and sculpture of Ancient Greece from the third millennium to the end of the Hellenistic period. With 282 color and 28 black-and-white illustrations. (GRE194, $19.95)

Art of the Byzantine Era

by David Talbot Rice

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 1985
• PAPER
• 286 PAGES
• CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
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Wide-ranging and literate, this thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art is an indispensable classic. (TKY22, $21.95)

Byzantine Art

by Robin Cormack

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2000
• PAPER
• 248 PAGES

A scholarly introduction and survey of the art of the Byzantine empire in the Oxford History of Art. With 127 illustrations, 82 in full color. (MDE64, $27.95)

St. Paul's Ephesus, Texts and Archaeology

by Jerome Murphy O'Connor

• ARCHAEOLOGY
• 2008
• PAPER
• 289 PAGES

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor transports us back to the ancient city of Ephesus during its heyday, including contemporary accounts from Roman to biblical times, and featuring a guided walk through the city as a center of Paul's teachings. (TKY226, $29.95)

The Complete World of Greek Mythology

by Richard Buxton

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2004
• HARD COVER
• 240 PAGES

With hundreds of color illustrations, site plans, genealogies and maps, this handsome, encyclopedic reference illuminates the world of the Greek gods. (GRE377, $39.95)

Crete

by Barry Unsworth

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2007
• PAPER
• 192 PAGES

A travel memoir from the Booker prize-winning novelist, richly detailed and seeped in the millennia-old traditions, myths, literature and history of the island. (GRE303, $10.95)

Istanbul, Memories and the City

by Orhan Pamuk

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2006
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

Nobel Prize-winner Pamuk writes with quiet grace of the city of his birth, celebrated in his many novels: a magical place of crumbling mansions and Ottoman riches, mingling Asian, Islamic, secular and European influences. (TKY99, $16.95)

Turkish Reflections, A Biography of a Place

by Mary Lee Settle

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1991
• PAPER
• 253 PAGES

Settle's captivating travelogue is a richly detailed portrait of contemporary Turkey, its people, monasteries, myths, archaeological treasures and living traditions. Exemplary. (TKY08, $16.99)

A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece

by Richard Stoneman

• LITERATURE
• 1994
• PAPER
• 347 PAGES

Poetry, prose and literature over the ages, arranged geographically with an excellent introduction and commentary. Stoneman artfully weaves together hundreds of short excerpts. (GRE06, $19.95)

The Greek Myths, Complete Edition

by Robert Graves

• LITERATURE
• 2012
• PAPER
• 800 PAGES

A new edition of Graves' classic collection illustrated by the comic book artist Ross MacDonald. This expert retelling by Graves, a poet, memoirist and the author of I, Claudius (ITL429), still remains the seminal modern translation of the mythologies of Ancient Greece. (GRE274, $25.00)

The Iliad

by Homer | Robert Fagles

• LITERATURE
• 2002
• PAPER
• 704 PAGES

In the excellent Fagles translation -- here presented in a deluxe paper edition -- Homer's Trojan epic hasn't aged a bit in the last 2,700 years. Take it along to Troy and the Aegean. (GRE173, $18.00)

The King Must Die

by Mary Renault

• LITERATURE
• 1988
• PAPER
• 330 PAGES

A novel of Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur and King of Athens, including his Cretan adventures. The first in Renault's trilogy of well-researched page-turners. (GRE23, $15.00)

The Songs of the Kings

by Barry Unsworth

• LITERATURE
• 2004
• PAPER
• 342 PAGES

Unsworth's sly novel, set in 1260 B.C. as scheming Odysseus prepares to plunder Troy. A familiar story enhanced by Unsworth's mix of classic cadence, contemporary language, ripe humor and pulled-from-the-headlines satire. (GRE185, $13.95)

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