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Eyewitness Guide Greece, Athens and the Mainland
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 354 PAGES
This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(GRE38, $25.00)
The Parthenon
Mary Beard
ART & ARCHITECTURE 2002 HARD COVER 209 PAGES
Cambridge University classicist Mary Beard brings the Parthenon to life in this lively tale of the construction, significance and many uses -- cathedral, mosque, cultural icon -- of the 2,500-year-old Athenian marvel. With 24 black-and-white photographs, a few illustrations, site and building diagrams and a map. The book is both an introduction to the ancient Greeks and an engaging guide to the Parthenon. She opens with a chapter "Why the Parthenon Might make You Cry." A volume in the Harvard University Press series, Wonders of the World.
(GRE195, $19.95)
The Birth of Greece
Pierre Leveque
ART & ARCHITECTURE 1994 PAPER 175 PAGES
An illustrated pocket survey of the art, culture and history of ancient Greece. It opens with a series of magnificent reconstructions of the palace at Knossos and proceeds to cover, in just 175 pages, the history of the Greeks from the Bronze Age through the Athenian Empire. With hundreds of color photographs of frescoes, mosaics, paintings, sculpture and metal work. A volume in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series.
(GRE124, $12.95)
Peloponnese Map
Freytag & Berndt
MAP
A detailed, regional map of the Peloponnese, at a scale of 1:250,000.
(GRE08, $11.95)
Athens Map
World Mapping Project
A map of the center of Athens and surroundings.
(GRE160, $8.99)
Athens Map
Borch Maps
An excellent laminated map of the city center at a scale of 1:7,500 with inset maps of the Acropolis, Epidaurus, Mycenae, Attica and the region.
(GRE311, $7.95)
Blue Guide Athens
Robin Barber
GUIDEBOOK
A handbook to archaeology, history and culture of Athens.
(GRE159, $22.95)
Eyewitness Top Ten Athens
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions, events, restaurants, shops and excursions in Athens.
(GRE219, $12.00)
Knopf Guide Athens and the Peloponnese
Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This lavishly produced guide to the city and surroundings includes maps, art and drawings.
(GRE10, $26.00)
Knopf Mapguide Athens
Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK
An ingenious book of foldout neighborhood maps with essential information about cultural attractions, food, accommodations, shopping and all the rest.
(GRE218, $9.95)
Strolling Through Athens, Fourteen Unforgettable Walks Through Europe's Oldest City
John Freely
GUIDEBOOK
An historical and anecdotal guide to the ancient city by Greece and Turkey scholar Freely.
(GRE201, $16.95)
A Traveller's History of Greece
Timothy Boatswain
Colin Nicolson
HISTORY
A nicely written survey of Greece from prehistory through the 1990s: wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer.
(GRE55, $14.95)
Ancient Greece, A Concise History
Peter Green
HISTORY
OUT OF PRINT
A lively, illustrated history of Greece from the Stone Age to the death of Alexander the Great. With good maps, a bibliography for further reading and hundreds of black-and-white photos of sites and objects.
(GRE04, $18.95)
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Why the Greeks Matter
Thomas Cahill
HISTORY
Cahill sketches ancient Greek society and civilization through the lives and words of politicians, playwrights, a poet, philosopher and artist in this eloquent, absorbing tribute, the third book in the Hinges of History series.
(GRE182, $14.95)
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
Mark Mazower
HISTORY
Mazower chronicles the history and culture of Thessaloniki from Byzantium, to Ottoman rule, and terrible devastation of WWI in this inviting book, part history and part travelogue.
(GRE232, $16.95)
The Ancient City, Life in Classical Athens and Rome
Peter Connolly
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A panorama of life in the ancient world, stunningly illustrated.
(ITL82, $26.95)
The Ancient Olympic Games
Judith Swaddling
HISTORY
An attractively illustrated survey of the religion, mythology and celebration of sport at Olympia.
(GRE158, $17.95)
The Classical World, An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian
Robin Lane Fox
HISTORY
NEW
Fox conjures tyrants, conquerors and enthralling personalities in this marvelously well written history of ancient Greece and Rome.
(GRE293, $18.95)
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Walter Blanco
Jennifer Tolbert
HISTORY
The classic account of the debilitating war between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, from 431 to 404 B.C.
(GRE102, $15.00)
The Peloponnesian War
Donald Kagan
HISTORY
A magnificent account of the 30-year struggle between Athens and Sparta in 5th-century B.C. Includes excellent maps.
(GRE183, $16.00)
Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and History
Marina Belozerskaya
Kenneth Lapatin
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This lively, illustrated guide covers architecture, painting and sculpture of ancient Greece from the third millennium to the fifth century B.C. With 282 color and 28 black-and-white illustrations.
(GRE194, $16.95)
Ancient Greece: The Famous Monuments
G. Behor
ARCHAEOLOGY
A great book relating ancient Greek ruins to the highly-decorated civic and religious buildings they once were via ingenious overlaid acetate illustrations.
(GRE172, $32.95)
Athenian Agora, Excavations in the Heart of Classical Athens
John M. Camp
Colin Renfrew
ART & ARCHITECTURE
For anyone wondering about the history and significance of Athen's great public gathering place, we couldn't recommend more highly this lucid, wonderfully illustrated history. Includes excellent maps, site plans and photos.
(GRE169, $24.95)
Greek Art
Nigel Spivey
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Geared towards art history students, this concise survey of Greek art is also an excellent overview of the subject for the traveler. Divided thematically, it covers major artists, myths and plays in addition to temple sculpture and architecture.
(GRE68, $24.95)
The Search for Ancient Greece
Roland Etienne
Francoise Etienne
ARCHAEOLOGY
Lavishly illustrated, this pocket encyclopedia covers the archaeology and meaning of ancient Greece, quite an accomplishment for such a slim book. With hundreds of photos and excerpts by archaeologists and scholars.
(GRE01, $12.95)
Dinner with Persephone
Patricia Storace
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The pleasures and complexities of contemporary Greece, marvelously described by an American poet spending a year there. Storace intertwines her own perceptions with the history of the country and the influence of pop culture on the classical landscape.
(GRE28, $15.95)
The Colossus of Maroussi
Henry Miller
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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, $14.95)
The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader
Lawrence Durrell
Clint Willis
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Durrell's intoxicating reflections on Greece and the Mediterranean. With his books on Corfu, Rhodes, Cyprus, Sicily, Delphi and Provence.
(GRE186, $15.00)
A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece
Richard Stoneman
ANTHOLOGY
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)
Greece, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Artemis Leontis
ANTHOLOGY
This collection of 24 stories and essays by modern Greek writers focuses on Greek culture, people and landscapes. A wonderful introduction.
(GRE190, $14.95)
Travelers' Tales Greece
Larry Habegger
James O'Reilly
Brian Alexander
ANTHOLOGY
A sampling of travel accounts and true tales by noteworthy authors, including Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Patricia Storace and Paul Theroux.
(GRE181, $18.95)
Apartment in Athens
Glenway Wescott
LITERATURE
Glenwood Weskit's 1945 novel about a couple living in Athens during the Nazi Occupation.
(GRE198, $12.95)
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