AskHistorians’s 'greek-history' books on Goodreads (26 books)

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checkbox	position	cover	title Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World	author Whitmarsh, Tim	isbn 0521761468	isbn13 9780521761468	asin 0521761468	num pages 242 pp	avg rating 4.50	num ratings 2	date pub 2010	date pub edition Sep 06, 2010	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Hardcover	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation	author Whitmarsh, Tim	isbn 0199240353	isbn13 9780199240357	asin 0199240353	num pages 392 pp	avg rating 4.00	num ratings 7	date pub Jan 01, 2002	date pub edition Mar 21, 2002	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Hardcover	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Troy between Greece and Rome: Local Tradition and Imperial Power	author Erskine, Andrew	isbn 0199240337	isbn13 9780199240333	asin 0199240337	num pages 332 pp	avg rating 4.50	num ratings 4	date pub Sep 27, 2001	date pub edition Dec 06, 2001	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review None	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Hardcover	actions view
checkbox	position	cover	title Alexander the Great in His World	author Thomas, Carol G.	isbn 063123246X	isbn13 9780631232469	asin 063123246X	num pages 304 pp	avg rating 3.67	num ratings 30	date pub Nov 17, 2006	date pub edition Nov 17, 2006	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review A fairly academic but very good biography of Alexander.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title A Companion to the Hellenistic World	author Erskine, Andrew	isbn 1405132787	isbn13 9781405132787	asin 1405132787	num pages 624 pp	avg rating 4.30	num ratings 20	date pub Aug 01, 2003	date pub edition Apr 15, 2005	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review A thorough guide with nearly thirty chapters written by world experts.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title The Greek World After Alexander, 323-30 BC	author Shipley, Graham	isbn 0415046181	isbn13 9780415046183	asin 0415046181	num pages 606 pp	avg rating 4.07	num ratings 76	date pub Feb 03, 1999	date pub edition Dec 23, 1999	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review An introduction to the Hellenistic Period. For more in-depth detail, the researcher will still need to go to Peter Green's enormous Alexander to Actiu ...more	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria (Volume 32) (Volume 32) (Hellenistic Culture and Society)	author Holt, Frank L.	isbn 0520211405	isbn13 9780520211407	asin 0520211405	num pages unknown	avg rating 4.21	num ratings 29	date pub Mar 31, 1999	date pub edition Apr 28, 1999	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review A good introduction to Greek culture outside of its traditional homelands, and more specifically Greek cultures of the Hellenistic era. Well researche ...more	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Hardcover	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title Sparta	author Whitby, Michael	isbn 0415939577	isbn13 9780415939577	asin 0415939577	num pages 296 pp	avg rating 4.24	num ratings 25	date pub Oct 25, 2001	date pub edition Nov 09, 2001	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review An up-to-date collection of studies on aspects of Spartan history and society, most of them by the world's top historians of Sparta. ...more	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title The Peloponnesian War	author Kagan, Donald	isbn 0142004375	isbn13 9780142004371	asin 0142004375	num pages 511 pp	avg rating 4.13	num ratings 5,069	date pub May 12, 2003	date pub edition Apr 27, 2004	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review Written by one of the top experts on the war, this intelligent account is a condensed version of his four-volume history first published in the 1960s.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title The Greek World 479-323 BC	author Hornblower, Simon	isbn 0415153441	isbn13 9780415153447	asin 0415153441	num pages 416 pp	avg rating 3.77	num ratings 77	date pub 1983	date pub edition Jun 30, 2002	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review A frequently used overview, written by a top scholar. Hornblower also pays a nice amount of attention to cities other than Athens and Sparta.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People	author Ober, Josiah	isbn 0691028648	isbn13 9780691028644	asin 0691028648	num pages 408 pp	avg rating 3.72	num ratings 43	date pub May 01, 1989	date pub edition Jul 09, 1991	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review Examines the political dynamics between different classes in democratic Athens, with an emphasis on the role of persuasive speaking in the assembly an ...more	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title A History of the Archaic Greek World: ca. 1200-479 BCE	author Hall, Jonathan M.	isbn 0631226680	isbn13 9780631226680	asin 0631226680	num pages 344 pp	avg rating 3.82	num ratings 65	date pub 2006	date pub edition Nov 10, 2006	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review Another of the definitive histories of Dark Age and Archaic Greece, by one of the greatest living historians of the period.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title A Companion to Archaic Greece	author Raaflaub, Kurt A.	isbn 1118451384	isbn13 9781118451380	asin 1118451384	num pages 800 pp	avg rating 4.25	num ratings 12	date pub Jan 01, 2009	date pub edition Dec 26, 2012	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review A thorough guide with over thirty chapters written by world experts.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title Greece in the Making, 1200-479 B.C.	author Osborne, Robin	isbn 041503583X	isbn13 9780415035835	asin 041503583X	num pages 416 pp	avg rating 3.75	num ratings 109	date pub Sep 26, 1996	date pub edition Oct 21, 1996	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review One of the definitive surveys of Dark Age and Archaic Greece.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Hardcover	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment	author Snodgrass, Anthony	isbn 0520043731	isbn13 9780520043732	asin 0520043731	num pages 263 pp	avg rating 3.81	num ratings 21	date pub 1980	date pub edition Apr 18, 2017	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review A classic book: though it has been superceded in some ways, this can probably be regarded as embodying the conservative orthodoxy on the period.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title The Trojans and Their Neighbours	author Bryce, Trevor	isbn 0415349559	isbn13 9780415349550	asin 0415349559	num pages 240 pp	avg rating 4.14	num ratings 36	date pub Nov 03, 2005	date pub edition Nov 03, 2005	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review Though focused on Troy, this is currently the best book that deals with the relationship between Bronze Age Greeks and the peoples of Anatolia.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 1	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title The Aegean Bronze Age	author Dickinson, Oliver	isbn 0521456649	isbn13 9780521456647	asin 0521456649	num pages 366 pp	avg rating 3.69	num ratings 58	date pub May 27, 1994	date pub edition Mar 03, 1994	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review A comprehensive synthesis of a wide range of data, useful for beginners and researchers alike.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C.	author Drews, Robert	isbn 0691025916	isbn13 9780691025919	asin 0691025916	num pages 264 pp	avg rating 3.95	num ratings 239	date pub 1993	date pub edition Dec 22, 1995	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review This is the only halfway decent book on the Bronze Age collapse that affected Greece, Anatolia, and Syria. Drews' rebuttal of some widely-accepted the ...more	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title Greece in the Bronze Age	author Vermeule, Emily	isbn 0226853543	isbn13 9780226853543	asin 0226853543	num pages 428 pp	avg rating 4.13	num ratings 31	date pub Feb 1965	date pub edition Jan 01, 1972	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review A classic. This elegant book gives a very rounded coverage, with chapters on Mycenaean society as well as art and archaeological data.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Paperback	actions view (with text)
checkbox	position	cover	title The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece	author Schaps, David	isbn 047211333X	isbn13 9780472113330	asin 047211333X	num pages 312 pp	avg rating 3.60	num ratings 5	date pub Dec 11, 2003	date pub edition Dec 11, 2003	AskHistorians's rating	my rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars add to shelves	review A useful and sane study of the development of currency and its role in Greek society.	notes Notes are private!	comments 0	votes 0	# times read 1	date started not set	date read not set	date added Sep 25, 2015	owned	format Hardcover	actions view (with text)

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