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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Historia Alexandri Magni Historia Alexandri Magni Quintus Curtius Rufus The Roman historian's account of the conquests of Alexander the Great is one of the primary sources of our knowledge of the Macedonian conquest and its leader. OL145025W
Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Michael Burgan Raised in Athens and educated by some of the greatest tutors in ancient Greece, Alexander III was thrust into a position of kingship after the death of his father. He used cunning strategies and a ma… OL15036956W
Eleni Eleni Nicholas Gage "In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist 'camps' inside the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, forty-one, defied the traditions of her small village and the… OL15138582W
Demosthenes of Athens and the fall of classical Greece Demosthenes of Athens and the fall of classical Greece Ian Worthington xxiv, 382 p. : 25 cm OL16547537W
Who was Alexander the Great? Who was Alexander the Great? Robin H. Waterfield When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had grand ambitions. He complained that his father, the great king of Macedon, wasn't leaving anything for him to conquer! This, of course, was… OL20029284W
Mother Land Mother Land Dmetri Kakmi "Mother Land is a minutely remembered description of a childhood on an Aegean island, marked by the furious opposition of hostile yet neighbouring cultures. It is an account of how a Greek boy born o… OL20303074W
Falling in Honey Falling in Honey Jennifer Barclay "One heartbroken winter, Jennifer decides to act on her dream of moving to a tiny Greek island - because life is too short not to reach out for what makes us happy. Funny, romantic and full of surpri… OL23311703W
The greatest doctor of ancient times The greatest doctor of ancient times Mary Gow "A biography of ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. His assumptions that diseases and cures came from nature, not the gods, and that a physician could treat a patient using k… OL5839163W
Moralia Moralia Plutarch The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also… OL723491W
Thermopylae Thermopylae Ernle Bradford The three-day battle for the pass at the "Hot Gates" of Thermopylae was a critical contest in the Persian king Xerxes's massive invasion of Greece. The bloody stand made there by Leonidas and his sma… OL8352914W