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Dangerous Citizens : Greek Left and the Terror of the State (08 Edition) by Neni Paniurigia Publisher Comments This book simultaneously tells a storyaor rather, storiesaand a history. The stories are those of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of thousands of Greek dissidents were detained and tortured in... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Crete (National Geographic Directions) by Barry Unsworth Synopsis The Booker Prize-winning novelist recounts his journeys through Crete, capturing the rich history of the island, the complex influences that have shaped Cretan culture, the island's rugged landscape, and the people of Crete.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990 by Anastas Karakasidou Publisher Comments Deftly combining archival sources with evocative life histories, Anastasia Karakasidou brings welcome clarity to the contentious debate over ethnic identities and nationalist ideologies in Greek Macedonia. Her vivid and detailed account demonstrates that... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hellas: Photographs of Modern Greece by William Abranowicz Synopsis William Abranowicz has photographed Greece for over a decade and his images show all dimensions of Greek life: its stores and cafes, its ancient ruins, its craggy mountains and its villages rising out of brilliant aquamarine waters. Collectively these... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $33.50 New - Hardcover
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The Greek War of Independence: The Struggle for Freedom from Ottoman Oppression and the Birth of the Modern Greek Nation by David Brewer Publisher Comments The Greek War of Independence is a masterful work--the first comprehensive study in thirty years--of one of the most heroic and bloody struggles for independence any people has ever waged. David Brewer has captured this period of world history... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Forschungen in Ephesos #9/5: The Bouleuterion at Ephesos by Barbara Beck-brandt And Ursula Quatember Publisher Comments This volume aims to present a comprehensive publication of the Roman Bouleuterion (town hall) at the Greco-Roman site of Ephesos (Turkey) including its decoration. It is based on a manuscript by the late L. Bier concerning the history of research and the... (read more) List Price $107.25 Your price: $58.96 New - Trade Paper
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Journal of Roman Pottery Studies; V.14. by Pamela V. Irving And Steven Willis Synopsis Volume 14 contains papers on recent and current work on Roman pottery from around Britain, with papers also on case studies from the Netherlands and Gaul. Contents: Roman pottery from the Channel Tunnel Rail Link section 1, Kent (Paul Booth); Grey face... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price: $32.16 New - Trade Paper
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The Historical Present in Thucydides: Semantics and Narrative Function = Le Prsent Historique Chez Thucydide: Smantique Et Fonction Narrative by Jean Lallot Et Al Book News Annotation Classicists from across Europe, and one from the US, explore how Greek historian Thucydides (460-400 BC) occasionally used the present indicative tense, rather than the usual imperfect and aorist, to mark events that the he considered crucial, or... (read more) List Price $159.50 Your price: $99.16 New - Hardcover
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Ancient West & East; V.5 No.1-2. Synopsis Originally published as a double issue of Volume 5 (2006) of Brill's bi-annual Ancient West & East,... (read more) List Price $230.25 Your price: $94.00 New - Hardcover
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities; V.2: the Terracotta Objects. by Zo Book News Annotation The series reflects the arrangement of artifacts in the museum by material, and this volume considers mostly figurines and lamps made of terra cotta, but also a near life-size head and an arula (portable alter), and--the gravity of object type having... (read more) List Price $164.50 Your price: $103.18 New - Hardcover
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The Most Beautiful Villages of Greece (Most Beautiful Villages) by Mark. Photographs By Hugh Palmer Ottaway Publisher Comments From the terra cotta and ocher of the Ionian Islands to the brilliant blues and whites of the Aegean, the villages of Greece and its islands are incomparable. The variety of village life and buildings springs from a multitude of histories and influences,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.06 New - Trade Paper
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The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228) by Filip Van. Trans. By Peter Longbottom Tricht Book News Annotation In this thorough revision of a part of the author's doctoral thesis (at the U. of Ghent), the Crusader Latin rule in Constantinople is examined in painstaking detail, based on contemporary chronicles and other data, and with attention to the changing... (read more) List Price $240.25 Your price: $152.09 New - Hardcover
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Ill Met by Moonlight by W Stanley Moss Publisher Comments In 1944 British commando W. Stanley Moss hatches his most daring adventure of all: to kidnap the Nazi General Kriepe, commander of the Sevastopol Division in Crete, and spirit him back to British-occupied Egypt. This is his story. From the split-second... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Waterloo: In the Footsteps of the Commanders by Jonathon Gillespie-payne Publisher Comments An original approach to understanding the events that made Waterloo such 'a damned close-run thing'.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $19.98 New - Trade Paper
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Greece, the Hidden Centuries (10 Edition) by David Brewer Publisher Comments For almost 400 years, between the fall of Constantinople and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery, distorted by Greek writers and begging the question: What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman rule... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $21.50 Used - Hardcover
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Greek Archaeology; a Thematic Approach. by Christopher Mee Publisher Comments Sifting through the remains of the ancient landscapes of Greece has revealed -- and continues to uncover -- a wealth of archaeological treasures. Greek Archaeology: A Thematic Approach presents an up-to-date synthesis of the material culture of the Greek... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price: $66.97 New - Hardcover
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Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions That Forged Modern Greece and Turkey by Bruce Clark Publisher Comments In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. The Lausanne treaty resulted in the deportation of Orthodox Christians from Turkey to Greece and of Muslims... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Roumeli Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Lee Fermor Publisher Comments Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Keos Keos #10: Ayia Irini: The Western Sector by Elizabeth Schofield Book News Annotation This is the tenth volume in a series devoted to Keos comprising the results of excavations conducted by the University of Cincinnati under the auspices of The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The Western Sector is distinguished by its... (read more) List Price $129.00 Your price: $86.43 New - Hardcover
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Ancient West & East; V.4 No.2. Publisher Comments Ancient West & East is a peer-reviewed (bi-)annual devoted to the study of the history and archaeology of the periphery of the Graeco-Roman world, concentrating on local societies and cultures and their interaction with the Graeco-Roman, Near Eastern... (read more) List Price $172.50 Your price: $62.00 New - Hardcover
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