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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 books include The Hellenistic Age: A Short History and a translation of the Iliad. His translation of the Odyssey is forthcoming. (October 2017)
A Family Cruise
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
by Daniel Mendelsohn
October 26, 2017 issue
When the Roman Empire Didn’t Stop
By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
by Ian Worthington
Alexander’s Heirs: The Age of the Successors
by Edward M. Anson
The Age of the Successors and the Creation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms (323–276 B.C.)
edited by Hans Hauben and Alexander Meeus
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece
by Robin Waterfield
March 5, 2015 issue
They Couldn’t Escape the Greeks
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity
by Simon Goldhill
April 24, 2014 issue
He Found the Real Alexander
Collected Papers on Alexander the Great
by Ernst Badian
November 22, 2012 issue
Obsessed with Scapegoats and Outcasts
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
May 10, 2012 issue
Sunlight on MacNeice
Letters of Louis MacNeice
selected and edited by Jonathan Allison
April 28, 2011 issue
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
May 15, 2008 issue
The Women and the Gods
Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece
by Joan Breton Connelly
June 28, 2007 issue
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
November 30, 2006 issue
Homer Lives!
Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
by Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath
March 18, 1999 issue
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
October 8, 1981 issue
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 and Manolis Andronikos and Katerina Rhomiopoulou
The Search for Alexander
by Robin Lane Fox
January 22, 1981 issue
The Poets’ Greece
Twenty Contemporary Greek Poets
edited by Dino Siotis and John Chioles
The Sovereign Sun: Selected Poems
by Odysseus Elytis, translated by Kimon Friar
The Axion Esti
by Odysseus Elytis, translated by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis
Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems
translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
Poems
by George Seféris, translated by Rex Warner
Scripture of the Blind
by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Kimon Friar and Kostas Myrsiades
Ritsos in Parentheses
translated by Edmund Keeley
The Fourth Dimension: Selected Poems of Yannis Ritsos
translated by Rae Dalven
June 26, 1980 issue
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