Introduces the country of Greece, including the land, landmarks, homes, food, clothes, work, transportation, language, school, sports, celebrations, and the arts.
A revised and extended edition of Richard Clogg's introduction to the history of modern Greece.
In Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Stathis Kalyvas, an eminent scholar of conflict, Europe, and Greece combines the most up-to-date economic and political-science findings on the current Greek crisis with a discussion of ...
31. 5 Rhodes/Osborne no. 22 = (translated) Harding no. 35; Rhodes no. 431; Crawford/Whitehead no. 269B. 6 Plutarch, Agesilaus 30.6. 7 Plutarch, Agesilaus 31.5. 8 Rhodes/Osborne 296 Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens.
Greece has come a long way since then; it has been a client state, first of Britain and then of the United States, for much of its modern existence but now it has secured an equal place at the top tables of NATO and the EU. The Historical ...
This engaging volume offers a basic introduction to Greece, including its geography, climate, economy, politics, and education, in clear text with beautiful photo accompaniment.
Pausanias (fl. 150 CE), one of the Roman world's great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography, landmarks, legends, and religious cults of all the important Greek cities....
The book examines the variables contributing to the profiling of contemporary Greece, emphasizing the conceptual inertia bedevilling the studies of Greece in recent years by focusing on the elements that indicated the slow pace in the ...
"An authoritative one-volume social and political history of modern Greece covering the period from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day"--