Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. A novelist and translator as well as a scholar, he is the author of many books, including The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos (California, 1993).
24 Ebooks by Peter Green
Peter Green: Alexander to Actium
The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian’s final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and vari …
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Peter Green: The Greco-Persian Wars
This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The lon …
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Peter Green: The Shadow of the Parthenon
A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Pet …
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Peter Green: Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.
Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized …
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Peter Green: The March East 1945
During the final days of the Second World War, for 900 Allied officers, held by the Germans in Oflag IX A/H and Oflag IX A/Z, freedom was still a world away. Marched east by their captors, away from …
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Yannis Ritsos: The Fourth Dimension
In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension–especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists–the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents …
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Peter Green: Andrei Tarkovsky
A survey of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian film-maker who lived from 1932-1986. It is a critical examination of his films in the light of his own writings and life, his aesthetics of film, …
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€57.99
David Evans & Peter Green: Object Oriented Computer Systems Engineering
This book addresses issues concerning the engineering of system prod- ucts that make use of computing technology. These systems may be prod- ucts in their own right, for example a computer, or they m …
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Peter Green & Roger Payne: COMPSTAT
This Volume contains the Keynote, Invited and Full Contributed papers presented at COMPSTAT’98. A companion volume (Payne & Lane, 1998) contains papers describing the Short Communications and Posters …
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Ovid: Erotic Poems
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, Ov …
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Juvenal: Sixteen Satires
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 who …
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Peter Green: The Hit and Run
Frank Vogel has developed a unique line of hair-care products and needs money to grow. When he runs an ad in The New York Times asking for investors, Thomas Harwood replies and agrees to invest three …
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Peter Green: The Laughter of Aphrodite
Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the a …
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Peter Green: Classical Bearings
In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries o …
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Peter Green: Hellenistic History and Culture
In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerg …
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Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens
The most momentous century of Hellenic history is covered in an accessible translation of the Bibliotheke for students, teachers, and general readers. Only one surviving source provides a cont …
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€27.11
Peter Green: Captured at Arnhem
For the British 1st Airborne Division Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was a disaster. The Division was eliminated as a fighting force with around a half of its men were captured. The German …
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Peter Green: English Electric Class 50 Diesels
A gallery of spectacular photos celebrating the history of these popular locomotives of the late twentieth century.Peter J. Green first photographed Class 50 diesels in action in 1975, while they wer …
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Peter J. Green: Diesel Locomotives Around the World
Following the end of the steam locomotive in normal service, the diesel has become the favourite of many railway enthusiasts. To show something of the diesel types and operations on various internati …
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Peter Green: English Electric Class 50 Diesels
A gallery of spectacular photos celebrating the history of these popular locomotives of the late twentieth century.Peter J. Green first photographed Class 50 diesels in action in 1975, while they wer …
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€12.84
Peter Green: Captured at Arnhem
For the British 1st Airborne Division Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was a disaster. The Division was eliminated as a fighting force with around a half of its men were captured. The German …
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€8.88
Simone de Beauvoir & Peter Green: Prime of Life
The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir s celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figure First published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers a …
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