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Free Download Robin Higham, "Diary of a Disaster: British Aid to Greece, 1940-1941"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0813192919 | ASIN: B097J729L9 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 2.1 mb
On October 28, 1940, the Italian army under Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. The British had insisted on guaranteeing Greek and Turkish neutrality, despite the fact that Greece was never more than a limited campaign in an unlimited war as far as they were concerned. The British, however, were never quite sure that Greece was not their last foothold in Europe, and they harbored dreams of holding on to this last bastion of civilization and of protecting it with a diplomatic and military alliance-a Balkan bloc. These dreams bore little relation to military and economic realities, and so the stage was set for tragedy.

Free Download Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all by Lizzy Tiffin
English | June 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 0008687080 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 2.11 MB
You’ve heard all about the ‘brilliant men’ of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow?

Free Download Ante Vuji, "Atlas of the Hoverflies of Greece (Diptera: Syrphidae)"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 9004334661 | PDF | pages: 410 | 642.6 mb
The Atlas of the Hoverflies of Greece is a concise presentation of all 418 hoverfly species for Greece known so far. The species are documented with photos and distribution GIS-maps and they are preceded by a general introduction on hoverflies and Greek nature, and a generic key.

Free Download Xavier Bonet, "The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Greece: A Handbook for Time Travelers"
English | 2019 | pages: 144 | ISBN: 1101998164, 0451480279 | EPUB | 19,8 mb
From the publishing house that brought you the Who Was? books comes the next big series to make history approachable, engaging, and funny!

Free Download Tony Spawforth, "The Story of Greece and Rome"
English | ISBN: 0300217110 | 2018 | 392 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia, from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century

Free Download The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece By Claude Calame, Janet Lloyd
1999 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0691043418 | EPUB | 3 MB
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault’s philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love. He maintains that Eros, the joyful companion of Aphrodite, was a divine figure around which poets constructed a physiology of desire that functioned in specific ways within a network of social relations. Calame begins by showing how poetry and iconography gave a rich variety of expression to the concept of Eros, then delivers a history of the deity’s roles within social and political institutions, and concludes with a discussion of an Eros-centered metaphysics. Calame’s treatment of archaic and classical Greek institutions reveals Eros at work in initiation rites and celebrations, educational practices, the Dionysiac theater of tragedy and comedy, and in real and imagined spatial settings. For men, Eros functioned particularly in the symposium and the gymnasium, places where men and boys interacted and where future citizens were educated. The household was the setting where girls, brides, and adult wives learned their erotic roles–as such it provides the context for understanding female rites of passage and the problematics of sexuality in conjugal relations. Through analyses of both Greek language and practices, Calame offers a fresh, subtle reading of relations between individuals as well as a quick-paced and fascinating overview of Eros in Greek society at large.

Free Download The Oxford History of Greece & the Hellenistic World By John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray
2002 | 520 Pages | ISBN: 0192801376 | EPUB | 7 MB
From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece’s Golden Age, to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical Greek world established the foundations of our culture as well as many of its most enduring achievements. Now, in this vivid volume, readers can embrace the spirit of the classical world, from the eighth to the first centuries B.C., a period unparalleled in history for its brilliance in literature, philosophy, and the visual arts. This work also treats the Hellenization of the Middle East by the monarchies established in the area conquered by Alexander the Great. The editors, all celebrated classicists, intersperse chapters on political and social history with sections on literature, philosophy, and the arts, and reinforce the historical framework with maps and historical charts. Moreover, the contributors-thirty of the world’s leading scholars-present the latest in modern scholarship through masterpieces of wit, brevity, and style. Together with hundreds of excellent illustrations, these entries provide both a provocative and entertaining window into our classical heritage.

Free Download Debbie Felton, "Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity"
English | ISBN: 0292725086 | | 160 pages | AZW3 | 538 KB
Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed new light on the stories’ folk roots.

Free Download Jeremy Trevett, "Demosthenes, Speeches 1-17 (The Oratory of Classical Greece)"
English | 2011 | pages: 353 | ISBN: 029272909X, 0292726775 | PDF | 4,9 mb
This is the fourteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today’s undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public.

Free Download Michael Carroll, "An Island in Greece: On the Shores of Skopelos "
English | ISBN: 1845118227 | 2009 | 224 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Scattered in a crescent in the sparkling waters of the Aegean, the islands of the Sporades are known to Greek fishermen as ‘the gates of the wind’. It was to this unspoilt archipelago that Michael Carroll sailed Astarte, a boat of sleek mahogany with wine-red sails, named after the Phoenician goddess of the moon and the sea. But his dream of travelling where the wind took him, rootless and free, changed when he landed on Skopelos. There, a chance meeting with the charismatic Vangeli led to him buying a piece of land on a remote cove, once the site of an ancient city and the perfect harbour for Astarte.