Greece 2003. Some Suggested Bibliography (optional)
Works marked with asterisk (*) are the most recommended
Archaeology/Art
*R. E. Wycherley, The Stones of Athens
Susan Woodford, An Introduction to Greek Art
John Boardman , Greek Art
*William R. Biers , The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction
John Griffiths Pedley, Greek Art and Archaeology
Emily Vermeule, Greece in the Bronze Age
J. J. Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece
M. Robertson, A History of Greek Art/A Shorter History of Greek Art
A. W. Lawrence, Greek Architecture
Osbert Lancaster, Sailing to Byzantium: An Architectural Companion
Ancient Works
*Herodotus HISTORY OF THE PERSIAN WARS
Homer ILIAD
Homer ODYSSEY
Aristophanes ACHARNIANS, PEACE, LYSISTRATA
Aeschylus ORESTEIA
Sophocles PHILOCTETES, OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
Euripides MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS, BACCHAE
Thucydides HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
Historical Fiction on Ancient World/Byzantium
*Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine
Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo
Mary Renault, The King Must Die
Mary Renault, The Bull from the Sea
Gore Vidal, Julian
Robert Graves, Count Belisarius
Guide Books
*Blue Guide to Greece
Blue Guide to Crete
Michelin Guide to Greece
*Pausanias Guide to Greece
A Traveler's History of Greece (T. Boatswain, C. Nicolson)
Greek History
* A. R. Burn, Pelican History of Greece
J. B. Bury, History of Greece
N. G. L. Hammond , A History of Greece to 322 BC
Bury/Meiggs, A History of Greece
Will Durant The Life of Greece
Paul Lemerle, History of Byzantium
Philip Sherrard, Time-Life Byzantium
C. M. Woodhouse, Modern Greece: A Short History
Travel Journalism
*Patrick Leigh-Fermor, Roumeli
Patrick Leigh-Fermor, Mani
Robert Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts (chapters on Greece)
Nicholas Gage, Eleni
Religion
Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church
Walter Burkert, Greek Religion
Fiction/Poetry (Modern)
*Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba, The Greek Passion, Freedom or Death, Report to Greco
Olivia Manning, Friends and Heroes (from the Balkan Trilogy)
C. P. Cavafy, Poems