Col. Rose Mary Sheldon
Department of History
Virginia Military Institute

 

* Indicates books at the W&L Library

 

The Trojan War and Modern Scholarship

Coolidge, Olivia E. The Trojan War,

Blegen, Carl, Troy and the Trojans, 1963

Deuel, Leo, Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann,

Finley, M.I. Caskey, J. L. Kirk, G.S., Page, D.L. "The Trojan War," AJA 84 (1964) 1-20.

Frazer, R. M. The Trojan War,

Leaf, Walter, Troy; a study in Homeric Geography, 1912

Macurdy, Grace H. Troy and Paeonia, 1925.

Moorehead, Caroline, Lost Treasures of Troy, 1996.

Payne, Robert, The Gold of Troy

Schliemann, Heinrich, Troja, 1884

Schliemann, Heinrich, Ilios, 1880.

Warner, Rex, Greeks and Trojans, 1953.

Wood, Michael, In Search of the Trojan War, (book)

Wood, Michael, In Search of the Trojan War, (Video)

*Woodford, S. The Trojan War in Ancient Art, 1993.

A&E Odyssey of Troy, 1996 (Video)

 

Warfare in the Homeric Age

Littauer, Mary Aiken, "The Military Use of the Chariot in the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age," AJA 76,2 (April 1972) 145ff.

Drews, Robert, The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastropher Ca. 1200 B.C., 1993.

The Transmission of Homer's poem and its place in Greek history

Arnold, Matthew, On Translating Homer, 1896.

Bowra, C. M. Homer, 1972

Boynton, Henry Walcott, The World's Leading Poets, 1912.

Browne, Henry, Handbook of Homeric Study, 1905.

Camps, W. A. An Introduction to Homer, 1980.

Chadwick, H. Munro, The Heroic Age, 1912.

Clerke, Agnes M. Familiar Studies in Homer, 1892.

Geddes, William D. The Problem of the Homeric Poems, 1878.

Gladstone, W. E. Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, 1858.

Hainsworth, J. B. Homer, 1969.

Jebb, Richard C. Homer; an Introduction to the Iliad, 1905.

Keller, Albert G. Homeric Society, 1902.

Kirk, G. S. Homer and the Epics, 1965.

Kirk, G. S. The Songs of Homer, 1962.

Knight, W. F. Many-minded Homer, 1969.

Lang, Andrew, Homer and the Epic, 1893.

Lang, Andrew, The World of Homer, 1910.

Leaf, Walter, Homer and History, 1915.

Lord, Albert Bates, The Singer of Tales, 1960.

MacKay, Louis A. The Wrath of Homer, 1948.

Mahaffy, John Pentland, A History of Classical Greek Literature, 1883.

Mireaux, M. Daily Life in the Time of Homer, 1959.

Nilsson, Martin P. Homer and Mycenae, 1933.

Post, Levi Arnold, From Homer to Menander, 1951.

Quennell, Marjorie, Everyday Life in Homer, 1930.

Scott, John Adams, Homer and His Influence, 1963.

Seymour, Thomas Day, Life in the Homeric Age, 1908.

Shewan, Alexander, Homeric Essays, 1935.

Timayanis, Telemachus, Greece in the Time of Homer, 1885.

Vivante, Paolo, The Homeric Imagination, 1970

Wace, A.J.B. A Companion to Homer, 1962.

Watts, Ann Chalmers, The Lyre and the Harp, 1969.

Webster, T.B.L. From Mycenae to Homer, 1958.

Whitman, Cedric H. Homer and the Heroic Tradition, 1958.

Wilkins, George, The Growth of the Homeric Poems, 1885.

 

The Culture and Society of Mycenaean Greece

Bell, Edward, Prehellenic Architecture in the Aegean, 1926.

Betancourt, Philip P. "The End of the Greek Bronze Age," Antiquity (March, 1976) ***

Chadwick, John, The Mycenaean World,

Cottrell, Leonard, Realms of Gold, 1963.

*Crete and Mycenae (Videorecording) Museum Without Walls, 1986.

Drews, Robert, The Coming of the Greeks,

*Fitton, J. Lesley, The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age, Harvard, 1996.

Hall, H. R. The Oldest Civilization of Greece

Hall, H. R. , Aegean Archaeology,

Harding, A. F. The Mycenaeans and Europe,

Hawkes, Jacquetta, Dawn of the Gods,

Higgins, Reynold Bell, Minoan and Mycenaean Art, 1967.

Hooker, J. J. Mycenaean Greece,

Hopper, H. J. The Early Greeks, 1976.

Kilian, Klaus, "The Emergence of Wanax Ideology in the Mycenaean Palaces," Oxford Journal of Archaeology (November 1988) ***

McDonald, William, Progess into the Past,

Marinatos, Spyridon, Crete and Mycenae, 1960.

Matz, Friedrich, The Art of Crete and Early Greece, 1962.

Mycenaean Studies,

Mylonas, George, Ancient Mycenae

Mylonas, George,, Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age,

*Nilsson, Martin P. The Minoan-MycenaeAn Religion and its survival in Greek religion, 1971.

Palmer, Leonard R. Mycenaeans and Minoans,

Palmer, Leonard R., A New Guide to the Palace of Knossos, 1969.

Ridgeway, William, The Early Age of Greece,

Schliemann, Heinrich, Mycen; a Narrative of Researchs.

Schliemann, Heinrich, Tiryns. The Prehistoric Palace . . .

Taylour, William L. The Mycenaeans,

Time-Life, Wondrous Realms of the Aegean, (See instructor)

Timayanis, Telemachus, Greece in the Time of Homer,

Vermeule, Emily, Greece in the Bronze Age,

Webster, T.B.L. From Mycenae to Homer,

 

The Culture and Society of Minoan Crete

Alsop, Stewart, From the Silent Earth,

Baikie, James, The Sea-Kings of Crete,

Barber, R. L. N. , The Cyclades in the Bronze Age,

Bass, George F. "Oldest Known Shipwreck Reveals Bronze Age Splendors," National Geographic (December, 1987).

?Bass, George F. et. al. "The Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun: 1986 Campaign," AJA 93(1989) ***

Betancourt, Philip P. "The End of the Greek Bronze Age," Antiquity (March, 1976) ***.

Branigan, Keith, The Foundations of Palatial Crete

Cadogan, Gerald, Palaces of Minoan Crete

Castleden, Rodney, Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete, London, 1991.

Chadwick, John, The Mycenaean World,

*Cotterel, Arthur, The Minoan World, New York, 1980.

Cottrell, Leonard, Realmsof Gold,

Cottrell, Leonard, The Bull of Minos

*Crete and Mycenae (Videorecording) Museum Without Walls, 1986.

Doumas, Christos G. "High Art from the Time of Abraham," Biblical Archaeology Review (January/February 1991) ***.

Evans, Arthur, The Palace of Minos,

Glasgow, George, The Minoans

*Hardy, D. A., Doumas, C. G., Sakellarakis, J. A., Warren, P.A., (edd.) Thera and the Aegean World III. Proceedings of the Third International Congress, Santorini Greece, 3-9 September 1989.

Hawes, Charles Henry, Crete: The Forerunner of Greece

Hood, Sinclair, The Minoans,

*Horwitz, Sylvia L. The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos, New York, 1981.

Hutchinson, Richard W. Prehistoric Crete

Judge, Joseph, "Greece's Brilliant Bronze Age," National Geographic (February 1978) ***

Marinatos, Spiridon, "Thera: Key to the Riddle of Minos," National Geographic (May 1972) ***

*Marinatos, Nanno, Minoan Religion, Univ. of S. Carolina Press, 1993.

Matt, Leonard, Ancient Crete,

Mellersh, H.E.L. Minoan Crete,

Morgan, Lyvia, The Miniature Wall Paintings of Thera: a study in Aegean Culture and iconography, Cambridge, 1988.

Mosso, Angelo, The Palaces of Crete and Their Buli . . .

Palmer, Leonard R. The New Guide to the Palace of Knossos

Palmer, Leonard R. , Mycenaeans and Minoans, Westport, Ct., 1980.

*Pellegrino, Charles R. Unearthing Atlantis: an archaeological odyssey, New York, 1991.

Pendlebury, J. D. S. The Handbook of the Palace of Minos,

Sakellarakis, Jannis, and Efi Sapouna-Sakellarakis, "Drama of Death in a Minoan Temple," National Geographic (February 1981) ***

Time-Life, Wondrous Realms of the Aegean, (See instructor)

Vaughan, Agnes C. The House of the Double Axe,

Warren, Peter, "Knossos: New Excavations and Discoveries," Archaeology (July/August 1984) 48ff.

Willetts, R. F. The Civilization of Ancient Crete

Wunderlich, The Secret of Crete, 1974.

*Crete & Mycenae

*The Find of a LifeTime

* The Miniature Wall Paintings of Thera

*Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete

*Minoan Religion

*The Minoan World

*Mycenaeans and Minoans

*Thera and the Aegean World

* Unearthing Atlantis

 

The Greek Dark Ages

Desborough, Vincent R. The Greek Dark Ages,

Burn, A.R. The World of Hesiod, 1937.

Solmsen, Friedrich, Hesoid and Aeschylus, 1949.

Walcot, Peter, Hesiod and the Near East, 1966.

 

 

The Archaic Age

 

 

 

Greece's emergence from the Dark Ages; The Greek Economic Revolution

Burn, A. R. The World of Hesiod,

 

 

Kouroi and Korai in Greek archaic art

 

Geometric pottery and its reflections of Greek society

Pollitt, J. J. The Art of Greece

*Rasmussen, Tom and Nigel Spivey, Looking at Greek Vases, Cambridge, 1991.

Richter, G.M.A. Handbook of Greek Art

Richter, G.M.A., The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, 1930.

Greek Overseas Expansion - Ionian trade and colonization

Burkert, Walter, The Orientalizing Revolution, Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age, 1992.

Huxley, G. L. The Early Ionians

Burn, A. R., The Lyric Age of Greece

Ridgway, David, The First Western Greeks, Cambridge, 1992.

 

The Spartan State

 

Plutarch, Lycurgus

Boer, Willem den, Laconian Studies, 1954

Cartledge, Paul, Sparta and Lakonia: a regional history, 1979

Fitzhardinghe, L. F. The Spartans, 1980

Hamilton, Charles, Sparta's Bitter Victories, 1979

Huxley, George L. Early Sparta, 1962

Jones, A.H.M. Sparta, 1968

Michel, H. Sparta, 1964

Proietti, Gerald, Xenophon's Sparta, Leiden, 1987.

Solon and Peisistratus as the architects of thr 6th century Athenian political system

Andrewes, Antony, The Greek Tyrants, 1956.

*McGlew, J. F. Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece, Cornell UP, 1993.

Ure, P. N. The Origins of Tyranny, 1962.

 

The Archaic Age - Culture and Society

*Lambert, S. D. The Phratries of Attica, Michigan, 1993.

*Percy, William Armstrong, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece

*Polignac, Francois de, Cults, Territory, and the Origins of the Greek City-State

Snodgrass, Anthony, Archaic Greece,

The Classical Age

 

 

Herodotus the Historian

DeSelincourt, Aubrey, The World of Herodotus, 1963.

Evans, J.A.S. Herodotus: Father of History, Father of Lies (see professor)

Fornara, Charles , Herodotus, an interpretive essay, 1971

How, W. W. A Commentary on Herodotus, 1928

Immerwahr, Henry, Form and Thought in Herodotus, 1966

Myres, John Linton, Herodotus, Father of History, 1953

Powell, J. Enoch, A Lexicon to Herodotus, 1960

Thomson, J. A. K. The Art of the Logos, 1935.

Waters, Kenneth H. Herodotus, 1985

Wells, J. Studies in Herodotus, 1923.

Wheeler, James. T. The Life and Travels of Herodotus, 1856

Evaluation of Themistocles as a politician and statesman

 

The Olympian Deities and the Role of the Gods in Greek Society

Simon, Eika, Festivals of Attica,

 

The Role of Women in Athenian Society

*Cantarella, Eva, Pandora's Daughters, 1987.

*Demand, Nancy H. Birth, Death and Motherhood in Classical Greece, 1994.

*Fantham, Elaine, Foley, Helene, Kampen, Natalie, Women in the Classical World; Image and Text, 1994

*Golden, Mark, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens, 1993.

*Laiou, A. E.. (ed.) Consent and Coercion to sex and marriage in ancient and medieval societies, Washington, D.C. Dumbarton Oaks, 1993.

*Lefkowitz, Mary R. and Fant, Maureen B. Women's Life in Greece and Rome, 1992.

*Lefkowitz, Mary R. Women in Greek Myth, 1990.

Loraux, Nicole, The Experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek Man, Princeton, 1995.

Oakley, J. H. and Sinos, R. H. The Wedding in Ancient Athens, Wisconsin, 1993.

*Pomeroy, Sarah B. Women's History and Ancient History, 1991.

*Tyrrell, Wm. Blake, Amazons

*Sealey, Raphael, Women and Law in Classical Greece,

 

The Greeks and the place of rational thought

 

The connection between Imperialism and Democracy in Athenian policy

Kagan, Donald, The Fall of the Athenian Empire, 1987.

Trial of Socrates

Brickhouse, T. C. and Smith, N.D. Socrates on Trial, 1990.

Guardini, Romano, The Death of Socrates, 1948.

Levin, Richard Lewis, The Question of Socrates, 1961.

*Reeve, C.D.C. Socrates in the Apology, 1989.

*Roberts, Athens on Trial: the Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought, 1994.

Stone, I. F. The Trial of Socrates

Strauss, Leo, Socrates and Aristophanes, 1966

Greek popular religions and society

Bevan, Edwyn Robert, Later Greek Religion, 1927

*Dodds, E. R. The Greeks and the Irrational

Theater and Society in the Classical World

*Scodel, Ruth, Theater and Society in the Classical World

Attitudes of Aristophanes toward war and empire as expressed in his plays

Aristophanes; essays in Interpretation, 1980

Ehrenberg, Victor, The People of Aristophanes, 1943

Lord, louis, Aristophanes, 1963

McLeish, Kenneth, The Theater of Aristophanes, 1980

Murray, Gilbert, Aristophanes; a study, 1933

Reckford, Kenneth J. Aristophanes; old and new comedy, 1987

Strauss, Leo, Socrates and Aristophanes, 1966

Whitman, Cedric H. Aristophanes and the Comic Hero, 1964

Attitudes of Euripides towards social injustice and prevailing attitudes as expressed in his tragedies.

Decharme, Paul, Euripides and the Spirit of His Drama, 1906.

Ferralll, A. W. Euripides; the rationalist, 1895.

Grube, G. M. A. The Drama of Euripides, 1941.

Lucas, F. L. Euripides and His Influence, 1928.

Mahaffy, John Pentland, Euripides, 1879.

Murray, Gilbert, Euripides and His Age, 1913.

Norwood, Gilbert, Essays on Euripidean Drama, 1954.

Norwood, Gilbert, Euripides and Shaw, 1921.

Verral, A. W. Essays on Four Plays of Euripides, 1905.

Webster. T.B.L. The Tragedies of Euripides, 1967.

Athenian Democracy

*Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy

*Davies, J. K. Democracy and Classical Greece, 1978.

Bonner, Robert J. Aspects of Athenian Democracy, 1933

Forrest, William W. The Emergence of Greek Democracy, 1966.

*Hansen, Mogens H. The Athenian Assembly, 1983.

Jones, A.H.M. Athenian Democracy, 1957.

*Lewis, Sian, News and Society in the Greek Polis

O'Neil, James L. The Origins and Development of Ancient Greek Democracy, 1995.

*Roberts, Jennifer, Athens on Trial; the Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought, 1994.

*Rhodes, P. J. The Athenian Boule, 1972

Sinclair, R. K. Democracy and Participation in Athens, 1988

Stockton, D. L. The Classical Athenian Democracy, 1990

The Gymnasium in Greek Society

 

Sophoclean Tragedy and the Humanist ideal.

Bates, William N. Sophocles: poet and dramatist, 1940.

Bowra, C. M. Sophoclean Tragedy, 1944

Butcher, S. H. Some Aspects of the Greek Genius, 1891.

Campbell, Lewis, Tragic Drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and . . ., 1904.

Ehrenberg, Victor, Sophocles and Pericles, 1954.

Grene, David, Reality and Heroic Pattern, 1967.

Kirkwood, Gordon, A Study of Sophoclean Drama, 1958.

Letters, F.J.H. The Life and Work of Sophocles, 1953.

Melchinger, Siegfried, Sophocles, 1974.

O'Brien, Joan V. Guide to Sophocles' Antigone, 1978.

Sheppard, John T. Aeschylus, Sophocles, 1927.

Sheppard, John T. The Wisdom of Sophocles, 1947.

Tyrrell, Robert V. Essays on Greek Literature, 1909.

Waldock, Arthur J. Sophocles; the Dramatist, 1951.

Warren, Thomas H. Essays on Poets and Poetry, 1909.

Whitman, Cedric H. Sophocles; a study of heroic humanism, 1951.

Woodard, Thomas M. Sophocles; a collection of critical essays, 1966.

Trial of Socrates

Brickhouse, T. C. and Smith, N.D. Socrates on Trial, 1990.

Guardini, Romano, The Death of Socrates, 1948.

Levin, Richard Lewis, The Question of Socrates, 1961.

*Reeve, C.D.C. Socrates in the Apology, 1989.

*Roberts, Athens on Trial: the Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought, 1994.

Stone, I. F. The Trial of Socrates

Strauss, Leo, Socrates and Aristophanes, 1966

 

The significance of the sophist movement on the fifth century B.C.

 

Barrett, Harold, The Sophists: rhetoric, democracy, and Plato's idea of sophistry. Calif, 1987.

Coby, Patrick, Socrates and the sophistic enlightenment; a commentary on Plato's Protagoras, Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 1987.

Rankin, H. D. Sophists, Socratics and Cynics, London: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983.

Untersteiner, Mario, The Sophists, Oxford, 1954.

 

Delphic Oracle

Fontenrose, Joseph E. The Delphic Oracle; its responses.

La Coste-Messeli, The Treasures of Delphi,

Parke, H. W. The Delphic Oracle,

Parke, H. W. , A History of the Delphic Oracle, 1939

 

The Peloponnesian War

 

 

The organization and policies of the Athenian Empire (460-420 B.C.)

Meiggs, Russell, The Athenian Empire, 1979.

Romilly, Jacqueline de, Thucydides and Athenian Imperialism, 1964.

Analysis of the Melian Dialogue in Thucydides

Analysis of the policies and events which led to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

Kagan, Donald,, The Outbreakof the Peloponnesian War, 1969.

Kagan, Donald, The Archidamian War, 1990.

The significance of the Peloponnesian War on Greek Society and culture

Kagan, Donald, The Fall of the Athenian Empire, 1987.

Analysis of the Mytilenean Debate Debate in Thucydides

 

Evaluation of Alcibiades and his personality on the course of events in the last decade of the fifth century B.C.

 

Benson, E.E. The Life of Alcibiades, London, 1926.

Kagan, Donald, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, 1981.

Robinson, C. E. The Days of Alcibiades, London, 1916.

 

Abbott, G. F. Thucydides; a study in historical reality, 1925. . .

Adcock, F. E. Thucydides and His History, 1963

Cochrane, Charles N. Thucydides and the Science of History, 1965.

Cole, Roger William, Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, 1966.

Cornford, Francis M. Thucydides Mythhistoricus, 1965

Finley, John Huston, Thucydides, 1963.

Gomme, A. W. Essays in Greek History and Literature, 1937.

Green, Peter, Armada from Athens, 1970.

Grundy, G. B. Thucydides and the History of His Age, 1948.

*Hornblower, S. Thucydides

*Hornblower, S, A Commentary on Thucydides

Kallet-Marx, Lisa, Money, Expense and Naval Power in Thucydides' History 1.5.24, 1993

*Orwin, Clifford, The Humanity of Thucydides, 1994.

*Rhodes, P. J. History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides Book 2.

*Rhodes, P. J. History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides Book 3.

Romilly, Jacqueline, Thucydides and Athenian Imperialism, 1964.

 

Military

 

The trireme; the Greek warship

Morrison, John, Greek and Roman Oared Warships 399-30 B.C.

Morrison, J. S. The Athenian Trireme, 1986.

Jordan, Boromir, The Athenian Navy in the Classical Period,

Williams, R. T. "Early Greek Ships of Two Levels," AJA 78 (1958) 121-30.

*Gabrielson, Vincent, Financing the Athenian Fleet, 1994.

Morrison, J. S. and Williams, R. T. Greek Oared Ships 900-322 B.C.

Southworth, John Van Duyn, The Ancient Fleets,

The Peloponnesian War

Henderson, Bernard W. The Great War Between Athens and Sparta, 1927.

Grundy, G. B. Thucydides and the history of his age, 1948.

Roisman, Joseph, The General Demosthenes and his use of military surprise, 1993.

The Theban Military Machine

Anderson, J. K. Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon, 1970.

Greek Cavalry

Adcock, F. E. The Greek and Macedonian Art of War, 1957.

Bugh, Glennn R. The Horsemen of Athens, 1988.

*Pritchett, Greek States at War, 5 vols (W & L)

Spence, I. G. The Cavalry of Classical Greece, Oxford, 1993.

 

The Hoplite Revolution

Adcock, F. E. The Greek and Macedonian Art of War, 1957.

Fornara, "The Hoplite Achievement at Psatteleia," AJA 86 (1966) 51-54.

?Ducrey, Warfare in Ancient Greece,

Hoplites; The Classical Greek Battle Experience, 1991.

*Pritchett, Greek States at War, 5 vols (W & L)

Snodgrass, A. M. "The Hoplite Reform and History," AJA 85 (1965) 110-22.

 

Mercenary Warfare in the Hellenistic Age

Griffith, G. T. The Mercenaries of the Hellenistic World, 1935.

Parke, H. W. Greek Mercenary Soldiers, 1933.

Greek Combat Sports

Poliakoff, Michael, Combat Sports in the Ancient World

 

The Macedonian Army as a military and political instrument and institution

Adcock, F. E. The Greek and Macedonian Art of War, 1957.

The Battle of Chaeronea

 

The Persian Wars

Badian, E. "Harpalus," AJA 81 (1961) 16-43.

Burn, A. R. "Hammond on Marathon: A Few Notes," AJA 89 (1969) 118-120.

Green, Peter, Armada for Athens,

Green, Peter, Xerxes at Salamis,

Hammond, N.G.L. "The Battle of Salamis," AJA 76 (1956) 32-54.

Hammond, N.G.L. "The Battle of Salamis: A Correction," AJA 77 (1957) 311.

Hammond, N.G.L., "The Campaign and Battle of Marathon," AJA 88 (1968) 13-57.

Raubitchek, A. E. "Two Monuments Erected after the Victory of Marathon," 44 (1940) 53ff.

Lazenby, J.F. The Defense of Greece 490-479 B.C., 1993.

Whatley, N. "On the Possibility of Reconstructing Marathon and Other Ancient Battles," AJA 84 (1964) 119-39.

Wallace, W. P. Kleomenes, Marathon, the Helots, and Arkadia," AJA 74 (1954) 32-35.

 

Fourth Century

 

Class conflict and political instability during the 4th century B.C.

 

The role of the Kingdom of Pergamum in Greek politics

 

Greek Federal Experiments in the 4th century: a) Aetolian League b) Achaean League (choose one)

Freeman, E. A. History of Federal Government in Greece, 1893.

Spartan Policy after the Peloponnesian War

*Cartledge, Paul Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta,

Sankey, Charles, The Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 1886

Hamilton, Charles D. Agesilaus and the Failure of Spartan Hegemony, 1991.

Hamilton, Charles D., Sparta's Bitter Victories,

Iphicrates and the breakdown of the phalanx system

Pritchett, The Greek States at War

Development of individualism in philosophy during the 4th century B.C.

Bevan, Edwyn Robert, Stoics and Skeptics, 1959.

Aeneas Tacticus and warfare in 4th century Greece

Aeneas Tacticus, Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander, 1948.

 

Extent and nature of the intellectual's alienation from society during the 4th century B.C.

 

The Second Athenian League

Cargill, Jack, The Second Athenian League

Munn, Mark, The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C., 1993.

Wickersham, John & Gerald Verbrugghe, The Fourth Century B.C., 1973.

The Theban Hegemony

Sankey, Charles, The Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 1886

Wickersham, John & Gerald Verbrugghe, The Fourth Century B.C., 1973.

 

 

 

Philip II and Alexander the Great

 

 

Philip II and the establishment of the Macedonian State

Billows, Richard A. Kings and Colonists. Aspects of Macedonian Imperialism, 1995.

Borza, Eugene, "The Royal Macedonian Tombs and the Paraphernalia of Alexander the Great," in Makedonika,

Borza, Eugene, "Athenians, Macedonians and the Origins of the Macedonian Royal House," in Makedonika,

Borza, Eugene, "Philip II and the Greeks," in Makedonika,

Casson, Stanley, Macedonia, Thrace and Illyria,

Cawkwell, George, Philip of Macedon,

Curteis, Arthur M. Rise of the Macedonian Empire, 1880

Danien, Elin C. (ed.) The World of Philip and Alexander, 1990

Ellis, John R. Philip II and Macedonian Imperialism,

*Hammond, N.G.L. Philip of Macedon, 1994.

Hogarth, D. G. Philip and Alexander of Macedon,

Joguet, Pierre, Macedonian Imperialism and the Hellenization . . . , 1928.

Danien, Elin C. (ed.) The World of Philip and Alexander, 1990

The Personality/character of Alexander

Curtius Rufus, Quintus, History of Alexander

Plutarch, Alexander

*Bamm, Peter, Alexander der Grosse, New York, 1968.

Cummings, Lewis Vance, Alexander the Great, Boston: 1940.

Badian, E. Studies in Greek and Roman History, 1964.

Dodge, Theodore A., Great Captains, 1889

Green, Peter, Alexander of Macedon, 1991

Green, Peter, Alexander the Great, 1970.

Green, Peter, Alexander to Actium,

Hamilton, J. R. Alexander the Great, 1973.

*Hammond, N.G.L. Alexander the Great, king commander and statesman, Noyes, 1980.

Hammond, N.G.L, The Genius of Alexander the Great, 1996.

Hogarth, D.G. Philip and Alexander of Macedon, 1897.

Lane Fox, Robin, Alexander the Great, 1974.

Lloyd, J. G. Alexander the Great, 1981.

O.Brien, John M. Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy, 1992.

*Payne, Robert, Alexander the God, New York, 1954.

Robinson, Charles, Alexander the Great, New York, 1947

Robson, Edgar, Alexander the Great, 1929

Russell, Ada, Alexander the Great, New York, 1914.

Savill, Agnes F. Alexander the Great and His Time, 1959

Snyder, John William, Alexander the Great. 1966.

Tarn, W. W. Alexander the Great, Cambridge, 1948.

Thomas, Carol., Decoding Ancient History, N.J. Prentice Hall, 1994

Weigall, Arthur E. Alexander the Great, New York, 1933.

Wheeler, Robert E. Flames Over Persepolis, 1968.

Wilcken, Ulrich, Alexander the Great, 1967

 

Alexander's Use of Intelligence

Borza, Eugene, "Alexander's Communications," in Makedonika p. 189.

Engels, Donald W. Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army, 1978.

 

Demosthenes, enemy of Philip

Demosthenes,

Adams, Charles Darwin, Demosthenes and His Influence, 1927.

Clemenceau, Georges, Demosthenes, 1926.

Pickard-Cambridge, A. , Demosthenes and the Last Days of Greek Freedom, 1914.

*Sealey, Raphael, Demosthenes and His Time

Strategy and tactics of Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire

 

Arrian, Arrian's History of the Expedition of Alexander, 1813

Griffith, G. T. "Alexander's Generalship at Gaugamela," AJA 67 (1947) 77-89.

Fuller, J.F.C. The Generalship of Alexander the Great, 1958.

Borza, Eugene, "Malaria in Alexander's Army," in Makedonica, p. 211.

Hamilton, J. R. "The Cavalry Battle at the Hydaspes," AJA 76 (1956) 26-31.

Bosworth, A. B. Conquest and Empire, Cambridge, 1989.

Brunt, P. A. "Alexander's Macedonian Cavalry," AJA 83 (1963) 27-46.

Engels, Donald W. Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army, 1978.

Milns, R. D. "Alexander's Macedonian Cavalry and Diodorus xvii 17.4," AJA 86 (1966) 167-8.

Stark, F. "Alexander's March from Miletus to Phrygia," AJA 78 (1958) 102-20.

Evaluation of Alexander's Subordinates: a) Antipater, b) Parmenio and Philotas

Bosworth, A. B. Conquest and Empire, Cambridge, 1989.

Alexander's policies and actions in Iran and India.

Borza, Eugene, "Fire from Heaven: Alexander at Persepolis, in Makedonika, p. 217.

Badian, E., "Orientals in Alexander's Army," AJA 85 (1965) 160-1.

Bosworth, A. B. Conquest and Empire, Cambridge, 1989.

Holt, Frank L. Alexander the Great and Bactria, E. J. Brill, 1995.

McCrindle, John Watson, The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great, 1896.

Borza, Eugene, "Ethnicity and Cultural Policy at Alexander's Court," in Makedonika p. 149.

Alexander's relations with and policy towards the Greeks and the Greek city-states

 

 

The Hellenistic Age

 

Wars of the Successors (Diadochi) and the partition of Alexander's Empire

Bevan, Edwyn Robert, The House of Seleucus, 1966.

Bevan, Edwyn Robert, The House of Ptolemy, 1968.

Mahaffy, J. P. The Empire of the Ptolemies, 1895.

Hellenistic philosophies and society

Bevan, Edwyn Robert, Stoics and Sceptics, 1959.

Edelstein, Ludwig, The Meaning of Stoicism,

Hellenistic Religions

Martin, Luther H. Hellenistic Religions, 1987.

The Ptolemies

Bevan, Edwyn Robert, The House of Ptolemy, 1968.

Green, Peter, From Alexander to Actium, 1990.

Spread of Greek Culture by Alexander and His Successors

Mahaffy, J. P., The Progress of Hellenism in Alexander's e . . ., 1905.

Green, Peter, From Alexander to Actium, 1990.

Hadas, Moses, Hellenistic Culture, 1968.

Rostovtzeff, M. Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World, 1941.

Tarn, W.W. Hellenistic Civilization, 1930, 1971.

Walbank, F. W. The Hellenistic World, 1981.

 

Dionysius I of Syracuse and the Western Greeks in the 4th century

 

Rebellions against Macedonian hegemony after Alexander's death

Green, Peter, From Alexander to Actium, 1990.

History of the early Antigonids - Antigonos the One-Eyed and Demetrius

*Billows, Richard A. Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State, 1990.

Carpenter, Rhys, "The 'Hellenistic Ruler' in the Terme Museum," AJA 31 (1927) 160.

Attalid Pergamon

Hansen, E. V. The Attalids of Pergamum,

Native resistance to hellenization in Asia and Egypt

Green, Peter, From Alexander to Actium, 1990.

Role of the city during the Hellenistic Age

Green, Peter, From Alexander to Actium, 1990.

Rostovtzeff, M. Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World, 1941.

Hellenistic Queens - Women as a political force during the Hellenistic Age

Green, Peter, From Alexander to Actium, 1990.

Cleopatra of Egypt as a Hellenistic Monarch

Abbott, Jacob, History of Cleopatra, 1858. DT 92.7

Franzero, Charles M. The Life and Times of Cleopatra, 1957.

Ludwig, Emil, Cleopatra, the story of a queen, 1937.

Sergeant, Philip, Cleopatra of Egypt, 1909.

Weigall, Arthur Edward, The Life and Times of Cleopatra, 1923.

Wertheimer, Oskar von, Cleopatra: a royal voluptuary, 1931.

 

Role of Alexandria as an intellectual center

Green, Peter, From Alexander to Actium, 1990.

Webster, T.B.L. Hellenistic Poetry, 1965.

Hellenistic Science

O'Leary, De Lacy, How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs, 1949.

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

The Myth of Atlantis

Ramage, Edwin S. (ed.) Atlantis, fact or fiction?, 1978.

Bellamy, H. S. The Atlantis Myth, 1948.

Cayce, Edgar, Edgar Cayce on Atlantis, 1968.

De Camp, L. Sprague, Lost Continents, the Atlantis theme in History, science and literature, New York, 1954.

Donnelly, Ignatius, Atlantis: the antediluvian world, New York, 1949.

Galanopoulos, Angelos Georgiou, Atlantis: the truth behind the legend, 1969.

Luce, John Victor, Lost Atlantis, new light on an old legend, 1969.

Scott-Elliot, W. The Story of Atlantis, a geographical, historical, and ethnological sketch , 1896. Stiebing, William H. Ancient Astronauts. Cosmic Collisions, 1984. (see professor)

Environmental History and Topography

Meiggs, Russell, Trees and Timber in the Ancient Mediterranean

*Myers, Myers, Cadogan, The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete

*Sallares, Robert, The Ecology of the Ancient Greek World, 1991

Greek Medicine

Galen

*Edelstein, Ludwig, Ancient Medicine, 1987.

*Grmek, Mirko D. Diseases in the Ancient Greek World, 1990.

*Temkin, Owsei, The Falling Sickness, 1994.

Influence of Hellenism on Later Ages

Bowersock, Glen, Hellenism in Late Antiquity, 1990.

Bush, Douglas, Classical Influences in Renaissance,

Canat, René, L'hellenisme des romantiques, 1951.

Dowling, Linda, Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford, Cornell, 1994.

Gray, J. Glenn, Hegel and Greek Thought, 1968.

*Gruen, Erich, Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy,

Jaeger, Werner W. Early Christianity and Greek Paidaeia, 1961.

Murray, Gilbert, Hellenism and the Modern World, 1954.

O'Leary, De Lacy, The Persistent Voice; Essays on Hellenism, 1971.

Stechow, Wolfgang, Rubens and the Classical Tradition,

Stern, Bernard H. The Rise of Romantic Hellenism, 1969.

Thomas, Carol, Paths from Ancient Greece, Leiden, 1988.

Toynbee, A. J. Hellenism: A History of a Civilization

Trevelyan, Humphrey B. Goethe and the Greeks, 1972.

 

 

 

 

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