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Athens & the Peloponnese   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $64, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXGRE259)		  
The Parthenon  •  Mary Beard
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 204 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, $14.95)		   The Parthenon
Greece, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Artemis Leontis
ANTHOLOGY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES
A collection of 24 stories by modern Greek writers, organized geographically -- and a wonderful introduction to Greek people, culture and landscapes. Editor Artemis Leontis is an adjunct professor of modern Greek at the University of Michigan. She includes stories by Odysseus Elytis, George Seferis, Nikos Kazantzakis and Vassilis Vassilikos. (GRE190, $14.95)		   Greece, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Eyewitness Guide Greece, Athens and the Mainland  •  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. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (GRE38, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Greece, Athens and the Mainland
Greece Map  •  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. Two Sides. 49x41 inches. (GRE24, $12.95)		   Greece Map



Also Recommended

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, $8.95)
 		  
Bradt Guide Peloponnese  •  Andrew Bostock   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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)
 		  
National Geographic Traveler Athens  •  Joanna Kakissis   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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)
 		  
Pocket Rough Guide Athens  •  John Fisher   • GUIDEBOOK  •  By the savvy editors at Rough Guide, these just-right guides are bundled with a pullout map. (GRE476, $12.99)
 		  
Rick Steves' Pocket Athens  •  Rick Steves   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A personable, practical guide in the growing series by travel guru Rick Steves. Complete with a neighborhood overview, city walks and tours, sights, handy food and accommodations charts and a fold-out city map. (GRE509, $12.99)
 		  
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, $23.00)
 		  
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece  •  Robert Morkot   • REFERENCE  •  This pictorial survey of Greek antiquity, recording its culture and expansion, features dozens of full-color maps. (GRE125, $18.00)
 		  
A Traveller's History of Athens  •  Richard Stoneman   • HISTORY  •  A brief history of Athens through the 1990's -- wide-ranging, accessible and effectively condensed. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through the centuries. (GRE291, $14.95)
 		  
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens  •  James Davidson   • HISTORY  •  Davidson examines such fundamental issues as the pleasures of fish, sex and wine in their social and political context in this fascinating study of appetite and desire in classical Athens. (GRE63, $22.50)
 		  
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Why the Greeks Matter  •  Thomas Cahill   • HISTORY  •  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, $16.00)
 		  
The Classical World  •  Robin Lane Fox   • HISTORY  •  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 World of the Ancient Greeks  •  John Camp  •  Elizabeth Fisher   • HISTORY  •  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  •  Marina Belozerskaya  •  Kenneth Lapatin   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  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)
 		  
The Athenian Agora, Site Guide  •  John M. Camp   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  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)
 		  
Eurydice Street, A Place in Athens  •  Sofka Zinovieff   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Zinovieff, a transplanted Englishwoman, trained as an anthropologist and married to a Greek Diplomat, is an appreciative, dead-on guide to Athens, its character, aspirations and reality. (GRE253, $14.95)
 		  
Mani, Travels in Southern Peloponnese  •  Patrick Leigh Fermor   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Fermor weaves anecdote, magnificent description, classical references, history and commentary into an absorbing portrait of place. (GRE27, $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, $12.95)
 		  
Apartment in Athens  •  Glenway Wescott   • LITERATURE  •  Glenway Wescott's 1945 novel about a couple living in Athens during the Nazi Occupation. (GRE198, $14.95)
 		  
The Messenger of Athens  •  Anne Zouroudi   • MYSTERY  •  This first book in the Mysteries of the Greek Detective series has at its heart the sin of lust. Zouroudi weaves excitement and mythology together with the realities of everyday small-island life. (GRE458, $23.99)
 		  
 
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