Below, we present a partial and incomplete but long list of readings on Greece, Greeks and the experience of travelers to the country. Most of those books can be had at online bookstores or at English language bookstores in Athens.
George Seferis, Waiting for the Angel, A Biography, Beaton, Roderick, Yale University Press, 2003.
Fugitive Pieces, Michaels, Ann, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
The Colossus of Maroussi, Miller, Henry; (New Directions)
Bitter Lemons, Durrell, Lawrence; (Marlowe & Company)
My Family and Other Animals, Durell, Gerald; (Viking/Penguin)
The Greek Islands, Prospero’s Cell and The White House, Durrell Lawrence; (Faber & Faber and Viking/ Penguin)
Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey 1937-47, Keeley, Edmund; (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, De Bernieres, Louis; (Martin Secker & Warburg, London,1994)
The Eve of the Greek revival: British travelers’ perceptions of early 19th century Greece, Angelomatis-Tsougarakis, Helen; (Routledge, 1990)
Greek society, Andrewes, Antony; (Penguin, 1967)
Castles of the Morea, Andrews, Kevin; (Penguin, 1984)
Greek religion, Burkert, Walter; (Basil Blackwell, Oxford and Harvard University Press, 1987)
The Station, Byron, Robert; (Phoenix, 2000)
Minoans : Life in Bronze Age Crete, Castleden, Rodney; (Routledge,1990)
The Decipherment of Linear B, Chadwick, John; (Cambridge University Press,1991)
Medieval Greece, Cheetam, Nicolas; (Yale University Press,1992)
A Short History of Modern Greece, Clogg, Richard; (Cambridge University Press,1992)
Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece, Dalby, Andrew; (Routledge,1996)
The Greeks and the irrational, Dodds, E.R.; (University of California Press)
Courtesans and Fishcakes, Davidson, James; (Fontana,1998)
The Coming of the Greeks, Drews, Robert; (Princeton,1988)
The World of Odysseus, Finley, M.I., The Classical Greeks and The Rise of the Greeks, Grand, Michael; (both Phoenix)
The Greek Myths, Graves, Robert; (Penguin, 1955)
Deep into Mani, Greenhalgh, Peter and Eliopolis, Edward; (Faber and Faber,1985)
Alexander the Great, Hammond, N.G.L; (Bristol Press, 1980)
Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, Harrison, Jane Ellen Minoan and Mycenaean Art, Higgins, Reynold; (Thames and Hudson,1981)
Zorba the Greek, Kazantzakis, Nikos; (Faber and Faber/ Simon & Schuster)
Report to Greco, ibid
Christ Recrusified, ibid
Freedom or Death, ibid
A Greek Quintent, Keeley, Edmund and Philip Sherrard, Denis Harvey and Co., Evia, 1981
The Foods of the Greek Islands, Kremezi, Aglaia, Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Alexander the Great, Lane Fox, Robin, Penguin, 1986
Greece: A Travelers Literary Companion, Leontis, Artemis, Whereabouts Press, 1997
Philosophy Before Socrates, McKirahan Jr., Richard D., Hackett Indianapolis, 1994
The Illustrated Greek Wine Book, Manessis, Nicos
Inside Hitler’s Greece, Mazower, Mark, Yale University Press, 1995
Athens: A Portrait of the City in its Golden Age, Meier, Christian, Pimlico, 2000
Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC, Osborne, Robin, Routledge, 1996
Guide to Greece, Pausanias, Penguin
The Greeks: The Land and People Since the War, Pettifer, James, Penguin, London and New York, 2000
The Cycladic Spirit, Renfrew, Colin, Thames & Hudson
Art of the Byzantine Era, Rice, David Talbot, Thames & Hudson
The Great Church in Captivity, Runciman, Steven, Cambridge University Press, 1968
The Honey and the Hemlock, Sagan, Eli, Princeton University, 1991
The Glory of the Hera, Slater, Phillip E., Princeton University Press, 1968
Greek Art, Spivey, Nigel, Phaidon, 1997
Dinner with Persephone, Storace, Patricia, Pantheon, New York 1996, and Granta, London, 1997
The Elgin Affair, Vrettos, Theodore, Secker and Warburg, 1997
The Hellinistic World, Walbank, F.W., Fontana and Harvard University Press
The Orthodox Church, Ware, Timothy Callistos, Penguin
Modern Greece: A Short History, Woodhouse, Faber & Faber, 1992
Religion in the Ancient Greek City , Zaidmann, Louise and Pantel, Pauline, Cambridge University Press 1992 |
