Peter Green
Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is The Hellenistic Age: A Short History. (May 2008)
From the Review
May 15, 2008: The Great Marathon Man
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories edited by Robert B. Strassler, translated from the Greek by Andrea L. Purvis, with an introduction by Rosalind Thomas
A Commentary on Herodotus Books I–IV by David Asheri, Alan Lloyd, and Aldo Corcella, edited by Oswyn Murray and Alfonso Moreno, with a contribution by Maria Brosius
June 28, 2007: The Women and the Gods
Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece by Joan Breton Connelly
November 30, 2006: Finding Ithaca
Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic by Andrew Dalby
Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca by Robert Bittlestone with James Diggle and John Underhill
Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece by A.M. Snodgrass
June 24, 1999: 'Who Killed Homer?': An Exchange
March 18, 1999: Homer Lives!
Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom by Victor Davis Hanson, by John Heath
April 15, 1982: Not Soft on Communism (letter)
March 18, 1982: Tough Act to Follow
Funeral Games by Mary Renault
November 5, 1981: The Battle for Macedonia (letter)
October 8, 1981: Greece Against Itself
Mediaeval Greece by Nicolas Cheetham
A Short History of Modern Greece by Richard Clogg
Ephesus After Antiquity: A Late Antique, Byzantine and Turkish City by Clive Foss
Ambassador MacVeagh Reports: Greece 1933-1947 edited by John O. latrides
The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece by Bruce R. Kuniholm
The Greek World by Eliot Porter, with a text by Peter Levi
The Greek Upheaval: Kings, Demagogues and Bayonets by Taki Theodoracopulos
The Struggle for Greece 1941-1949 by C.M. Woodhouse
January 22, 1981: The Macedonian Connection
The Search For Alexander November 16, 1980 to April 5, 1981 an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,
The Search For Alexander: An Exhibition with essays by Nikolaos Yalouris, by Manolis Andronikos, by Katerina Rhomiopoulou
The Search for Alexander by Robin Lane Fox
June 26, 1980: The Poets' Greece
Twenty Contemporary Greek Poets edited by Dino Siotis, by John Chioles
The Sovereign Sun: Selected Poems by Odysseus Elytis, translated by Kimon Friar
The Axion Esti by Odysseus Elytis, translated by Edmund Keeley, by George Savidis
Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems translated by Edmund Keeley, by Philip Sherrard
Poems by George Seféris, translated by Rex Warner
Scripture of the Blind by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Kimon Friar, by Kostas Myrsiades
Ritsos in Parentheses translated by Edmund Keeley
The Fourth Dimension: Selected Poems of Yannis Ritsos translated by Rae Dalven
May 15, 1980: Egyptian Erudition (letter)
March 20, 1980: Athenian Drama, Attic Salt
Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theater by Bernard Knox
December 20, 1979: The Secrets of the Pyramids (letter)
October 11, 1979: Oracle (cont'd) (letter)
October 11, 1979: Tut-Tut-Tut
Treasures of Tutankhamun with commentary by I.E.S. Edwards, photographs by Lee Boltin
Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures by I.E.S. Edwards
The Gold of Tutankhamun by Arnold C. Brackman, by Kamal El Mallakh, with a preface by William Kelly Simpson
Egyptian Treasures from the Collections of the Brooklyn Museum with commentaries by Robert S. Bianchi, photographs by Seth Jowel
An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary by E.A. Wallis Budge
Egypt Observed by Henri Gougand, by Colette Gouvion
Ramesses the Great, Master of the World by William MacQuitty, foreword by T.G.H. James
Tutankhamun: The Untold Story by Thomas Hoving
The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter, by A.C. Mace
Egypt Before the Pharaohs: The Prehistoric Foundations of Egyptian Civilization by Michael A. Hoffman
The Ancient Egyptians: A Sourcebook of Their Writings by Adolf Erman
The Wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians by William MacQuitty
Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography by Hermann Kees
Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by E.A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian Magic by E. A. Wallis Budge
The Egyptian Gods: A Handbook by Alan W. Shorter
Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs by Barbara Mertz
Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz
Ancient Egypt by Warner Hutchinson
Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid by Piazzi Smyth
The Great Pyramid Decoded by Peter Lemesurier
Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt by John Anthony West
The First Practical Pyramid Book by Norman Stark
The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon translated by Alexandre Piankoff, edited by N. Rambova
The Egypt Story: Its Art, Its Monuments, Its People, Its History with text by P.H. Newby, photographs by Fred J. Maroon
September 27, 1979: An Exchange on the Oracle
August 16, 1979: On the Thanatos Trail
Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (The Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 46) by Emily Vermeule
April 5, 1979: Answering Service
The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations, with a Catalogue of Responses by Joseph Fontenrose
March 8, 1979: Waxing Lyric (letter)
February 8, 1979: The Masks of Mary Renault
The Praise Singer by Mary Renault
Books by Peter Green
The Greco-Persian Wars (1996)
Andrei Tarkovsky: The Winding Quest (1993)
The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel About Sappho of Lesbos (1993)
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (1991)
Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (1990)
Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture (1989)
Ancient Greece: An Illustrated History (1979)
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.; A Historical Biography (1974)
A Concise History of Ancient Greece to the Close of the Classical Era (1973)
The Parthenon (1973)
The Shadow of the Parthenon: Studies in Ancient History and Literature (1972)
Alexander the Great (1970)
The Year of Salamis, 480-479 Bc (1970)