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 Diodorus Siculus: The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens, Books 11–14.34 (480–401 BCE).
(November 2012)
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He Found the Real Alexander
November 22, 2012
Collected Papers on Alexander the Great
by Ernst Badian
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Sophocles & ‘The Highest Point’
June 21, 2012
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Obsessed with Scapegoats and Outcasts
May 10, 2012
The Complete Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation
by Robert Bagg and James Scully
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles, translated from the Greek with an introduction and notes by David Mulroy
An Introduction to Greek Tragedy
by Ruth Scodel
Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens
by David Kawalko Roselli
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Sunlight on MacNeice
April 28, 2011
Letters of Louis MacNeice
selected and edited by Jonathan Allison
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The Great Marathon Man
May 15, 2008
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
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The Women and the Gods
June 28, 2007
Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece
by Joan Breton Connelly
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Finding Ithaca
November 30, 2006
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
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‘Who Killed Homer?’: An Exchange
June 24, 1999
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Homer Lives!
March 18, 1999
Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
by Victor Davis Hanson, by John Heath
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Not Soft on Communism
April 15, 1982
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Tough Act to Follow
March 18, 1982
Funeral Games by Mary Renault
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The Battle for Macedonia
November 5, 1981
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Greece Against Itself
October 8, 1981
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
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The Macedonian Connection
January 22, 1981
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
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The Poets’ Greece
June 26, 1980
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
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Egyptian Erudition
May 15, 1980
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Athenian Drama, Attic Salt
March 20, 1980
Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theater by Bernard Knox
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The Secrets of the Pyramids
December 20, 1979
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Tut-Tut-Tut
October 11, 1979
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
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Oracle (cont’d)
October 11, 1979
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An Exchange on the Oracle
September 27, 1979
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On the Thanatos Trail
August 16, 1979
Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (The Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 46) by Emily Vermeule
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Answering Service
April 5, 1979
The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations, with a Catalogue of Responses by Joseph Fontenrose
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Waxing Lyric
March 8, 1979
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The Masks of Mary Renault
February 8, 1979
The Praise Singer
by Mary Renault