Ancient Greece

In the northwestern corner of the great peninsula of the Peloponnese, close to the meeting point of the Cladeus and Alpheus rivers, lies a peaceful river valley overlooked by the...

Sicily 412 BC: the infinite duel between a man and a superpower begins. The man is Dionysius, who has just made himself Tyrant of Syracuse. The superpower Carthage, mercantile megalopolis...

A wistful fictional love letter to old Hollywood and the films of Billy Wilder, moving from sunny Greece to a modern-day Britain, from one of our greatest British authors. A...

The luxury of the ancient world is legendary, but the Athenian reputation is sober because this wealthy, successful city-state spent all its money on the conspicuous consumption of ephemeral things....

This edition presents Medea, the most famous play of the Athenian tragedian Euripides, in ancient Greek, with commentary designed for university Greek classes, from second-year Greek upward. It helps students...

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic...

In addition to their famous gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks also worshiped deceased human beings, including child and baby heroes. Although these heroes played an essential role in Greek...

Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who...

'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly' Being Happy contains all of the extant writing by Epicurus - one of the most...

334 BC. Alexander the Great is just twenty-one years old when he sets out with a small army to challenge Persia, the largest and most powerful empire in the world....

A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A definitive and refreshingly readable new translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War , paired with a brilliant introduction on how to...

'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...

Pindar is one of the greatest Greek poets, but while the metre of half of his poems is easy to grasp, that of the other half has so far remained...

Go back to when the Greek Gods ruled the world, and the bravest heroes fought the deadliest monsters! Considered some of the oldest and most famous stories ever told, this...

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Be inspired and plan your next unforgettable trip with DK travel guides Make your trip to the Greek Islands extraordinary Watching the sun set from the iconic cliffs of Santorini....

Provides illuminating answers to many questions: why did Sophocles develop character-drawing? How and why does it differ from that of Aeschylus? Why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and...

Since his death in 1904, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's works have had an enormous resonance in different cultures and fields of artistic activity. The essays in this volume examine the various...

A collection of translated extracts from Greek writers from Homer to Pausanias. The extracts are organised into chapters with a brief linking narrative under the following headings - War, The...

Eleni Gage, a young journalist living in New York, leaves her Manhattan flat to return to the remote but beautiful Greek village of Lia in northern Greece and rebuild her...

Two sisters. One missing girl. An island full of secrets...An atmospheric and tense thriller from an exciting voice in psychological suspense I haven't been back to Eos since I first...

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles , The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There...

Whether you are a stadium spectator or an armchair enthusiast, keep up with the action and drama at the 2004 Games. Packed with breathtaking sports photography, commentary and trivia-busting lists...

Cats are ubiquitous in Greece's Cycladic Islands. They are never allowed inside family homes, but are nonetheless welcomed as fellow inhabitants. They are fed, cared for, but never pampered or...

'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles , The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There...

'Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.' New York Times Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded...

This book, first full-length study of this often undervalued play, argues for a new appreciation of the power of its rhetoric, the subtlety of its characterization, and the beauty of...

For mortals to be free the Gods must fall in this sweeping, epic fantasy set in Ancient Greece In Ancient Greece, the Gods demand the ultimate tribute - food, treasure,...

An exhilarating, gripping new psychological thriller from the author behind the record-breaking, multimillion-copy bestseller, The Silent Patient This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At...

FROM THE WORLD OF PERCY JACKSON The fourth novel in Rick Riordan's best-selling Heroes of Olympus series - now as a graphic novel! FROM THE WORLD OF PERCY JACKSON The...

A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from...

Edith Hall unpacks the mysterious and successful ancient Greek people through ten uniquely ancient Greek personality traits. They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the...

New translation of One of Plato's major dialogues, popular because of its subject-matter- love Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the...

This revised edition features a new introduction by Robin Seager, putting the lives in the context of Plutarch's biography and literary career, discussing and comparing the individual lives, and analysing...

Socrates was not a moral philosopher. Instead he was a theorist who showed how human desire and human knowledge complement one another in the pursuit of human happiness. His theory...

How rhetoric-the art of persuasion-can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimonyThe discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand...

Iris has a rainbow of colorful experiences, from visiting the Underworld to conversing with her crush in this Goddess Girls adventure. Iris is the most colorful goddess girl at Mount...

"The perfect series for fans of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians books." - School Library Journal Two cousins venture into the Underworld to save their classmates from a...

Charlotte and Zee get entangled in a conspiracy to take down Zeus in this thrilling third and final book in the middle grade Cronus Chronicles series inspired by Greek mythology-now...

That man ever managed to develop a 'scientific' attitude to the natural world is one of the true wonders of human thought. And answering the question of where and how...

Longlisted for the PEN Translation Award Best Spiritual Books of 2025 - Spirituality and Practice The first comprehensive English collection from one of the world's most influential mystics-Attar-the twelfth-century poet...

A comprehensive presentation of the whole range of Plato's thought, this book focuses in particular on how Plato developed his metaphysics in order to support his deepest educational convictions.

In Travelers to an Antique Land, Robert Eisner embarks on an engaging journey through centuries of fascination with Greece-a land alternately imagined, idealized, and rediscovered by visitors from across the...

In a work that re-investigates archival materials and deploys an innovative theoretical framework, Jean Mills explores the intellectual and political relationship between Virginia Woolf and the Cambridge classicist Jane Ellen...

The Station follows three high-spirited young men as they visit twenty monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine treasures, photograph frescoes and sketch the courtyards and those who live...

Be inspired and plan your next unforgettable trip with DK travel guides Make your trip to Greece extraordinary Taking a dip in the Aegean sea. Sipping ouzo after a taverna...