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Eyewitness Guide Greece, Athens and the Mainland

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• 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. (GRE38, $25.00)

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 marvel. (GRE195, $14.95)

Greece, A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Artemis Leontis

• ANTHOLOGY
• 1997
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

In this terrific anthology, 24 modern Greek writers introduce Greek culture, people and landscapes. (GRE190, $14.95)

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, $11.95)

 

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Athens Map

by World Mapping Project

• MAP

A water- and tearproof foldup map of Athens and surroundings, at an excellent scale. (GRE160, $8.99)

Blue Guide Greece, The Mainland

by Sherry Marker | James Pettifer

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2006
• PAPER
• 735 PAGES

With extensive background on the history, art, architecture and culture of mainland Greece, serious-minded travelers will not want to be without this guide. (GRE40, $32.95)

Bradt Guide Peloponnese

by Andrew Bostock

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES

This comprehensive guide to the cradle of Greece, which includes Olympia and the mountains of Arcadia, also includes information about its history and culture. (GRE434, $23.99)

Eyewitness Top Ten Athens

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 160 PAGES

A compact illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions, events, restaurants, shops and excursions in Athens. (GRE219, $14.00)

National Geographic Traveler Athens

by Joanna Kakissis

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER

Abundantly illustrated with a focus on maps and sightseeing, this compact guide covers not just the city of Athens but also Crete, the Dodecanese, Ionian and other popular islands. (GRE483, $22.95)

The Athenian Agora, Site Guide

by John M. Camp

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 191 PAGES

With color and black-and-white photographs as well as a handy foldout map, this updated fifth edition of Camp's essential guide reflects the latest scholarship. (GRE482, $19.95)

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece

by Robert Morkot

• REFERENCE
• 1997
• PAPER
• 144 PAGES

This pictorial survey of Greek history, culture and expansion features dozens of full color maps. (GRE125, $18.00)

A Traveller's History of Greece

by Timothy Boatswain | Colin Nicolson

• HISTORY
• 2007
• PAPER
• 344 PAGES

A nicely written survey from prehistory through the 1990s: wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed. (GRE55, $14.95)

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Why the Greeks Matter

by Thomas Cahill

• HISTORY
• 2004
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

Cahill sketches 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, $16.00)

Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950

by Mark Mazower

• HISTORY
• 2006
• PAPER
• 528 PAGES

Mazower chronicles the history and culture of Thessaloniki from Byzantium to Ottoman rule, and the terrible devastation of WWI in this inviting book, part history and part travelogue. (GRE232, $18.00)

The Classical World

by Robin Lane Fox

• HISTORY
• 2008
• PAPER
• 656 PAGES

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

The History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides | Walter Blanco | Jennifer Tolbert

• HISTORY
• 1954
• PAPER
• 656 PAGES

The classic account of the debilitating war between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, from 431 to 404 B.C. (GRE102, $17.00)

The Peloponnesian War

by Donald Kagan

• HISTORY
• 2004
• PAPER
• 511 PAGES

A magnificent account of the 30-year struggle between Athens and Sparta in 5th-century B.C. Includes excellent maps. (GRE183, $18.00)

The World of the Ancient Greeks

by John Camp | Elizabeth Fisher

• HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES

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)

Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and History

by Marina Belozerskaya | Kenneth Lapatin

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 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)

Greek Art

by Nigel Spivey

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 1997
• PAPER
• 448 PAGES

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, $27.95)

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)

Dinner with Persephone

by Patricia Storace

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1997
• PAPER
• 398 PAGES

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)

Mani, Travels in Southern Peloponnese

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2006
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

Fermor weaves anecdote, magnificent description, classical references, history and commentary into an absorbing portrait of place. (GRE27, $15.95)

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)

The Flight of Ikaros, Travels in Greece During the Civil War

by Kevin Andrews

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2010
• PAPER
• 262 PAGES

American archaeologist Kevin Andrews (second son of Roy Chapman Andrews) chases after Frankish castles in the Peloponnese as the civil war rages in this superb account. "One of the great and lasting books about Greece," says Leigh Fermor. Originally published in 1959, this new edition, like Ill Met by Moonlight, is publsihed by Paul Dry Books. (GRE461, $14.95)

A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece

by Richard Stoneman

• ANTHOLOGY
• 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)

Apartment in Athens

by Glenway Wescott

• LITERATURE
• 2004
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

Glenway Wescott's 1945 novel about a couple living in Athens during the Nazi Occupation. (GRE198, $14.95)

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)

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