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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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