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Books by Peter Green
  | | The Greco-Persian Wars(Updated) by Peter Green Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20313-6, ISBN: 0-520-20313-5 "Popular classicist Peter Green (author of Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.) offers an engrossing narrative of the wars between the Greeks and the Persians. This is real David-and-Goliath material, with the scrappy, feuding city-states of ancient Greece fending off a much larger aggressor. The conflicts themselves are a kind of struggle for the soul of Western civilization: "On the one side, the towering, autocratic figure of the ..." |
 | | Alexander to Actium(Reprint) The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age by Peter Green Paperback, 970 Pages, Published 1993 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08349-3, ISBN: 0-520-08349-0 "The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements and reception through the lens of a sing ..." |
 | | Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.(Reprint) A Historical Biography by Peter Green, Edward Gibbonpeter Green Paperback, 617 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-07166-7, ISBN: 0-520-07166-2 "Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded g ..." |
 | | Ancient Greece(Updated) An Illustrated History (Illustrated National Histories) by Peter Green Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1979 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-27161-2, ISBN: 0-500-27161-5 "Discusses the intellectual and political developments that distinguished the country's history from the beginnings of Minoan culture to the death of Alexander." |
 | | Sixteen Satires(1st Edition) (Penguin Classics) by Peter Green, P. Juvenal Green, Peter Juvenal, Peter Green Juvenal Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1967 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044194-9, ISBN: 0-14-044194-8 "Juvenal's Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachersPerhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. 55-138 AD) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer vibrant energy of everyday Roman life. A member of the traditional land-owning class which was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands o ..." |
 | | The Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios, Peter Green, Rhodius Apollonius Paperback, 524 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25393-3, ISBN: 0-520-25393-0 ""The Argonautika", the only surviving epic of the Hellenistic era, is a retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, probably the oldest extant Greek myth. Peter Green's lively, readable verse translation captures the swift narrative movement of Apollonios' epic Greek. This expanded paperback edition contains Green's incisive commentary, introduction, and glossary. Alternate spelling: Argonautica, Apollonius Rhodius." |
 | | The Erotic Poems(Reprint) The Amores, the Art of Love, Cures for Love, on Facial Treatment for Ladies by Peter Green Ovid, Peter Green, Peter Ovid/ Green, William S. Anderson, Publius Ovidius Naso Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 1937 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044360-8, ISBN: 0-14-044360-6 "This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The intimate and vulnerable nature of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and w ..." |
 | | Pembrokeshire Look Upon the Land and Sea by Peter Green Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2003 by Welsh Books Council ISBN-13: 978-0-9538352-4-9, ISBN: 0-9538352-4-3 "A rich collection of colour images of examples of paintings and local crafts by Pembrokeshire artists and craftsmen reflecting the way in which the coastland and inland landscape, together with its people, have inspired their work. 178 ..." |
 | | Classical Bearings(Updated) Interpreting Ancient History and Culture by Peter Green Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20811-7, ISBN: 0-520-20811-0 "In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the island of Lesbos (where he once lived) to the challenges of translating Ovid's wit and elegant eroticism into present-day English verse, from ..." |
 | | Classical Bearings Interpreting Ancient History and Culture by Peter Green 329 Pages, Published 1998 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91882-5, ISBN: 0-520-91882-7 "In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates." |
 | | Celiac Disease(1st Edition) A Hidden Epidemic by Rory Green M.D. Jones, Peter Green, Peter H.R. Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by William Morrow Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-06-076693-1, ISBN: 0-06-076693-X "From Dr. Peter H.R. Green, internationally renowned expert on celiac disease and director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, and medical writer Rory Jones, this is the definitive book on celiac disease, one of the most underdiagnosed autoimmune diseases in the U.S. Do you suffer from gastrointestinal complaints, fatigue, headaches, joint pain, anemia, and/or itchy skin conditions? Have you consulted numerous doctors, ..." |
 | | The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green 356 Pages, Published 1996 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91706-4, ISBN: 0-520-91706-5 "But the history of the Persian Wars will for ever be associated in my mind with exploration, mostly on foot, of Athens, ... Looking back over the quarter-century between now and then, I find The 1ear of Salamis (the title of the first edition) very ..." |
 | | The Laughter of Aphrodite(Reprint) A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos by Peter Green Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20340-2, ISBN: 0-520-20340-2 "Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make intimate, engrossing reading.Only fragments of S ..." |
 | | Wings Over Lincolnshire by Peter Green, Mike Hodgson, Bill Taylor Paperback, 60 Pages, Published 1994 by Ian Allan Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85780-024-1, ISBN: 1-85780-024-9 |
 | | Beyond the Wild Wood(Reprint) The World of Kenneth Grahame by Peter Green, Jo Ellen Moore Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1993 by Grange Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85627-336-7, ISBN: 1-85627-336-9 "Beyond the Wild Wood: The World of Kenneth Grahame" |
 | | Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.(Updated) A Historical Biography by Peter Green Hardcover, 617 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-07165-0, ISBN: 0-520-07165-4 "Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded g ..." |
 | | Hellenistic Culture and Society Alexander to Actium : The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age 1 by Peter Green 970 Pages, Published 1990 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91414-8, ISBN: 0-520-91414-7 "Préaux, Monde 1.181 ff.; cf. Rostovtzeff, CAH VII 162. 14. Préaux, Monde 1.183 ff. 15. Ibid. 1.202–9: she remarks that “la notion de philanthropia fut tellement galvaudée que l'index des OGIS renonce a en dénombrer les mentions” (p. 207). On the royal Friends, see now the excellent account by Walbank, CAH VII*.168 ff.; and see ibid. 81–84 for an analysis of the qualities attributed to the ideal Hellenistic monarch: courage, justice ..." |
 | | Classical Bearings(1st Edition) Interpreting Ancient History and Culture by Peter Green Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 1989 by Thames & Hudson Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-500-25107-2, ISBN: 0-500-25107-X |
 | | Cranwell Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force Photographs (Royal Air Force Pictorials) by Mike Green Hodgson, Peter Green Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 1998 by Midland Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-85780-014-2, ISBN: 1-85780-014-1 |
 | | Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.;(Updated) A historical biography (Pelican biographies) by Peter Green Paperback, 617 Pages, Published 1974 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-14-021690-5, ISBN: 0-14-021690-1 "There's no shortage of biographies available on Alexander the Great, but Peter Green's Alexander of Macedon is one of the finest. The prose is crisp and clear, and within a few pages readers become absorbed in the world that made Alexander, and then the story of how Alexander remade it. Green writes, "Alexander's true genius was as a field-commander: perhaps, taken all in all, the most incomparable general the world has ever seen. H ..." |
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