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1993Greek history, drama, science, philosophy and art have had a lasting effect on our culture. This book sets out to revive and celebrate some of the lost excitements of what used to be called the Golden Age, and to rediscover a people who, for centuries, were thought to have known best how to live. Designed to accompany the radio series broadcast in 1993 on BBC Radio 4. 190p. plates.bibliography.index Book
2004Collection of poems. 109p.Authoir inscription on ffep, else as new.[NO copies found in WorldCat] Book
1980Vintage but comprehensive, well illustrated guide to modern Greece for visitors.Vintage but comprehensive, well illustrated guide to modern Greece for visitors. Book
1932Issued simultaneously in US by William Edwin Rudge. Vintage B & W photographs of Italy, Greece Istambul (sic) Rhodes, Damascus, Palestine and Egypt. A very interesting visual journey around the eastern Mediterranean - places and people as seen c.1930. viii, 120p. Maps.Yellow cloth binding slightly soiled and splitting along the spine. Book
1998Minor creasing to ffep. Else book is fine. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; Heraclides Ponticus (387 - 312 BCE) , also known as Heraklides, was a Greek philosopher who lived and died at Heraclea, now Eregli, Turkey. He has frequently been hailed as the originator of the heliocentric theory. Though this is now generally doubted, he did anticipate the thinking of later astronomers. Heraclides' father was Euthyphron, a wealthy nobleman who sent him to study at the Academy in Athens under its founder Plato and under his successor Speusippus, though he also studied with Aristotle. According to the Suda, Plato, on his departure for Sicily in 360 BCE, left his pupils in the charge of Heraclides. Speusippus, before his death in 339 BCE, had chosen Xenocrates as his successor but Xenocrates narrowly triumphed in an ensuing election against Heraclides and Menedemus. A punning on his name, dubbing him Heraclides "Pompicus, " suggests he may have been a rather vain and pompous man and the target of much ridicule. However, Heraclides seems to have been a versatile and prolific writer on philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, physics, history and rhetoric, notwithstanding doubts about attribution of many of the works. It appears that he composed various works in dialogue form. The main source of this biographical welter is the collection by Diogenes Laërtius. His major distinction is that he realised, as the result of observation, that Venus and Mercury orbit the Sun as satellites. Some writers have seen this as evidence that he originated the heliocentric theory prior to Aristarchus of Samos and Nicolaus Copernicus. However, it is now generally believed that he was proposing an essentially geocentric model in which those planets orbit the Sun but the Sun, in turn, orbits the Earth along with the Moon, a theory later revived by Tycho Brahe. He was also the first to put forward the theory that the Earth rotates on its axis once a day. Of particular significance to historians is his statement that fourth century Rome was a Greek city. ; 178 pages; Sandpiper reprint.
1989". the Golden Age of Greek Civilization, the period from the first wars against Persia & Carthage in the early 5th century B.C. to the accession of Alexander the Great in 336 B.C. Never have so many varied talents & so much genius flourished within so short a period: the time of Sophocles, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Aristotle, Socrates & Plato. Much of our culture today was anticipated by the classical Greeks & their work remains fundamental to Western civilization. Focusing primarily on individuals who shaped their own & future civilizations rather than solely on political & military affairs, Michael Grant takes 37 of the great men of the age, whose contributions he considers to have been particularly important, & places them in their historical context. Grant explores the factors that gave rise to such outstanding achievement in the cultural, philosophical, scientific & literary spheres, stressing not only those of Athens & other mainland states, but also of cities far to the west & east, notably in Sicily & on the shores of the Black Sea. Writing for the general reader as well as for the reader with a more specialized knowledge of classical Greece, Michael Grant has captured the most astonishing of civilizations at the height of its powers. In this accessible & endlessly fascinating volume, he brings to life some of the most extraordinary men in all of history." 337p. plates maps bibliography.index Book
1960As a resident of Crete the author recorded his impressions of Crete and its people from Minoan to modern times.Illustrations And Cover By Thomas Fanourkis. 146p.+4 p. of plates .Contents neat crisp and unmarked, but the paper used for the cover is splitting away and starting to crumble and needs restoration, else fine.[8 copies found in WorldCat] Book
1980Greek orthodox instruction for use in 6th gradeGreek Junior Schools. 206p. illus (col) [NO copies found in WorldCat] Book
1984Set in German-occupied Greece during WW II, this spare, elegant, often emotionally shattering novel tells the story of a young mans emergence into manhood in a land of tyranny.218p.illus Remainder mark, else as new Book
1956An account of author's various visits - mainly Mediterranean , but "the essence of the book is her flair for finding the unusual and for setting it vividly before us" Chapters covering Athens, Izmir, Aegean islands, Corfu. 144.plates. index Book
1974144p. illus (some col).bibliography.index. Book
1996The author and family went to live on a small Greek island - Kea - and this book lovingly describes their experiences .156p. illus. photos.0918266334 Book
1980From Mesopotamia, to the Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans, Richard Humble, surveys the great sweep of warfare in the ancient world and thus provides a comprehensive military history of the period Well illustrated. 255p. illus (some col) maps, bibliography.index Book
1932Vintage B & W photographs of famous sites in Greece 25p of text + 64 plates. Bookplate dated 1936 in Latin on ffep that it was awarded as a prize. Blackwell, Oxford Bookseller ticket.Neat cop, spine slighty scuffed t Book
1980Texrbook of Ancient Greek myths and legends for use in Greek Junior Schools. 152p. illus (col) [NO location found in WorldCat] Book
1960Vintage Cacoulides guide to archaeological sites in the Peloponnese. No date [1950 ?] Photographs by Dimitris Harissiadis, drawings by Bartholomew Papadantonakis. 68p+ 30 leaves of photographic plates. index. [9 copies found in WorldCat] Book
1991p. illus.index. Looks undread, one library stamp on verso of title page, else fine Book
2006The life of Andrew Carnegie, from Dunfermline bobbin boy to Steel King of America.284p. plates bibliography index Book
1991"This is the legendary travel diary that the 24-year-old Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his first journey [1911] through central and eastern Europe. In a flood of highly personal impressions and visual notations, it records his first contact with the vernacular architecture that would preoccupy him for the rest of his life and with the monuments he most admired, the mosque complexes, the Acropolis, and the Parthenon. " [Ivan Zaknic, the editor and translator, is Associate Professor of Architecture at Lehigh University.] 270p. illus ( B & W) Pages clean and unmarkeDZs, corners bumped Book
1991".a clear, concise, statement of what is known about the original conditins of production for tragedy.comedy and satyr play in the age of Pericles, and provides observations on all aspects of performance." 103p. plates. index Book
2009Covering six of Greece's island groups - starting in the west with the Ionian islands, moving east to the Argo-Saronics, continuing to the Cyclades, Crete and the Dodecanese, circling up to the North Aegean islands and back round to the Sporades and Evia - this book highlights some of the beautiful landscapes and villages of the Mediterranean. Book
1930First UK edition of this biography by the distinguished French writer.Translated inti English by Hamish Miles. The translator has restored the original texts of quotations that Maurois had rendered into French and "in many instances .to give .more complete quotations than the author found practicable in French".) 464p. plates, bibliography. index. Red cloth binding, front hinge starting. Book
1961"This is an ideal and stimulating introduction, since it provides a quick view of the mainland and islands as the traveler today sees them - the landscape, the people and the prehistoric, classical and Byzantine remains ..t he background history is given...and the illustrations supplement every point. 255p.illus,map.bibliography Book
2004After falling in love with an incredible view, John Mole found himself owning a pile of stones and 20 years of goat dung. With no water, electricity or even a road, his family need a lot of convincing. The locals think he's crazy too and take full advantage. With unforgettable characters coming to life on every page, this humorous story of one family's search for the Arcadian idyll speaks volumes about learning to live, laugh, and drink Ouzo together while turning a tumbledown ruin into a place to hold their hearts. 342p.. Book