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Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biographyby Peter GreenISBN 0140216901 (0-14-021690-1)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography'Book summary: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. His gift for speed, improvisation, variety of strategy; his cool-headedness in a crisis; his ability to extract himself from the most impossible situations; his mastery of terrain; his psychological ability to penetrate the enemy's intentions--all these qualities place him at the very head of the Great Captains of history." [via]
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Alexander the Greatby Peter GreenISBN 0297000071 (0-297-00007-1)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Ageby Peter GreenISBN 0297852949 (0-297-85294-9)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The Borgiasby Peter GreenISBN 026902820X (0-269-02820-X)
Hardcover, Pall Mall Press
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The Cat's-Eyeby Peter GreenISBN 0234776811 (0-234-77681-1)
Hardcover, D. Dobson
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Destiny of Fireby Zoé Oldenbourg, Peter GreenISBN 0140029486 (0-14-002948-6)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1: Greek History, 480-431 Bc--the Alternative Versionby Diodorus, Peter GreenISBN 0292712774 (0-292-71277-4)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1: Greek History, 480-431 Bc--the Alternative Version'Book summary:Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great. Yet this important historian has been consistently denigrated as a mere copyist who slavishly reproduced the works of earlier historians without understanding what he was writing. By contrast, in this iconoclastic work Peter Green builds a convincing case for Diodorus' merits as a historian. Through a fresh English translation of a key portion of his multi-volume history (the so-called Bibliotheke, or 'Library') and a commentary and notes that refute earlier assessments of Diodorus, Green offers a fairer, better balanced estimate of this much-maligned historian.The portion of Diodorus' history translated here covers the period 480-431 BCE, from the Persian invasion of Greece to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. This half-century, known as the Pentekontaetia, was the Golden Age of Periclean Athens, a time of unprecedented achievement in drama, architecture, philosophy, historiography, and the visual arts. Green's accompanying notes and commentary revisit longstanding debates about historical inconsistencies in Diodorus' work and offer thought-provoking new interpretations and conclusions. In his masterful introductory essay, Green demolishes the traditional view of Diodorus and argues for a thorough critical reappraisal of this synthesizing historian, who attempted nothing less than a 'universal history' that begins with the gods of mythology and continues down to the eve of Julius Caesar's Gallic campaigns. [via]
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The Erotic Poems: The Amores, the Art of Love, Cures for Love, on Facial Treatment for Ladiesby Peter Green , OvidISBN 0140443606 (0-14-044360-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Erotic Poems: The Amores, the Art of Love, Cures for Love, on Facial Treatment for Ladies'Book summary: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 witty guide to sexual conquest - a work whose alleged obscenity led to Ovid's banishment from Rome in AD 8. This volume also includes the "Cures for Love", with instructions on how to terminate a love affair, and "On Facial Treatment for Ladies", an incomplete poem on the art of cosmetics. [via]
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From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modernby Peter GreenISBN 0292702302 (0-292-70230-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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The Poems Of Exile: Tristia And The Black Sea Lettersby Ovid, Peter GreenISBN 0140444076 (0-14-044407-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems Of Exile: Tristia And The Black Sea Letters'Book summary:One of the wittiest Roman poets, Ovid (43BC - 17 or 18 AD) was banished in 8AD to Constanza, a remote barbarous outpost on the Black Sea, for an unknown crime against the Emperor Augustus. Pouring out polished verse, appealing for a pardon that never came, and describing the horrors of the land to which he had been exiled, he continued to write there until his death in 17AD. His poems in exile consist of "Tristia" (poems of lamentation) and the "Episulae Ex Ponto" (Black Sea letters) mostly short elegies or poems in defence of his career ("Tristia II"); and the "Ibis", a venemous sustained elegaic curse of an unknown enemy. [via]
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Rumour in Orleansby Ovid, Peter GreenISBN 0218514417 (0-218-51441-7)
Hardcover, Blond
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Salon Managementby Ovid, Peter GreenISBN 0137882173 (0-13-788217-3)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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The Sixteen Satiresby Juvenal, Peter Green , W. V. ClausenISBN 0140447040 (0-14-044704-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sixteen Satires'Book summary:Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. A member of the traditional land-owning class that was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of outsiders, Juvenal also creates savage portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - seeking excitement among the lower orders of actors and gladiators, and of the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves. Constantly comparing the corruption of his own generation with its stern and upright forebears, Juvenal's powers of irony and invective make his work a stunningly satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society [via]
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The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth Grahame, Peter GreenISBN 0192816403 (0-19-281640-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind in the Willows'Book summary:Inspired by correspondence from Wind in the Willow's author Kenneth Grahame to his young son, award-winning illustrator Michael Foreman took up paint and brush to follow Mole, Ratty, Mr. Badger, and Toad through another edition of this well-loved kids classic.
Grahame's time-honored story, an adventure-filled idyll that meanders across a lovingly described English countryside, cemented its status as a masterpiece generations ago. But this newest edition adds some noteworthy extras: the unabridged text includes two chapters that don't appear in some modern versions ("The Pipers at the Gates of Dawn" and "Wayfarers All"), and the book closes with reproductions of two of Grahame's actual letters to his son Alistair ("My darling Mouse") in 1907, written on ornate, old-timey stationery from two Cornwall hotels and recounting one of Toad's first adventures (which Toad fans will recognize as the train-assisted escape of a certain "washerwoman").
These inclusions alone might merit a new edition, but Foreman's illustrations stand shoulder to shoulder with those of previous Winds artists (among them Ernest Shepard, the original illustrator, and Arthur Rackham, both of whom Foreman modestly stands "in awe" of). The lively, full-color illustrations appear generously throughout the book, as they convincingly capture both the story's small moments (like the washerwoman's weeping, for one) and more explosive events (like the storming of Toad Hall). (All ages) --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Year of Salamis, 480-479 BCby Peter GreenISBN 0297001469 (0-297-00146-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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