Eleni Papargyriou, "Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 "
English | ISBN: 1433131935 | 2017 | 176 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 offers a comprehensive overview of British female writing on Greece in the twentieth century and beyond. Contributors cover a vast array of authors: Rose Macaulay, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ann Quin, Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Olivia Manning, Mary Stewart, Victoria Hislop, Loretta Proctor and Sofka Zinovieff formed special ties with Greece and made it the focus of their literary imagination. Moving from Bloomsbury to Mills & Boon, the book offers insight into the ways romantic literature has shaped readers' perceptions about Greece. Why have female authors of such diverse backgrounds and literary orientations been attracted by a country burdened by its past and troubled by its present? What aspects of the country do they choose to highlight? Are female perceptions of Greece different from male ones? The book examines these and many more exciting questions. Given its focus and diversity, it is addressed to audiences in English and Greek studies, Classical reception, European modernism, cultural studies and popular fiction, as well as to non-academic English-speaking readers who have an interest in Greece.

Greece: A Jewish History by K. E. Fleming
English | November 25, 2007 | ISBN: 0691102724, 0691146128 | True EPUB/PDF | 288 pages | 4.1/6.5 MB
K. E. Fleming's Greece-a Jewish History is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews, and the only history that includes material on their diaspora in Israel and the United States. The book tells the story of a people who for the most part no longer exist and whose identity is a paradox in that it wasn't fully formed until after most Greek Jews had emigrated or been deported and killed by the Nazis.

Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality (Sather Classical Lectures) by Tonio Hölscher
English | June 22, 2018 | ISBN: 0520294939 | True PDF | 426 pages | 1.45 GB
Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice.

Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece: Essays on Religion and Society by Michael H. Jameson
English | December 8, 2014 | ISBN: 0521661293 | True PDF | 398 pages | 9.2 MB
This volume assembles fourteen highly influential articles written by Michael H. Jameson over a period of nearly fifty years, edited and updated by the author himself. They represent both the scope and the signature style of Jameson's engagement with the subject of ancient Greek religion.

English | ASIN: B07QD1DNYJ | 2019 | 9 hours and 27 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 308 MB
This comprehensive work by E. M. Berens starts with the primordial deities of the Greeks and the myths on the origin of the world, followed by the Olympian, sea, and minor divinities; nymphs; nature spirits; and Roman divinities. The public worship of the Greeks and Romans are discussed, and a chapter each is dedicated to Greek and Roman festivals. Finally, the famous legends are explored, including those of the Argonauts, Daedalus and Icarus, Hercules, Oedipus, and Troy.

ITV On Assignment - Greece, India and Sweden (2022)
English | Documentary | Size:

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1682262006 | 182 pages | True PDF | 4.92 MB
The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmian Games for Poseidon, and the Nemean Games, sacred to Zeus. For over nine hundred years, the Greeks celebrated these athletic and religious festivals, a rare point of cultural unity amid the fierce regional independence of the numerous Greek city-states and kingdoms.

Rick Steves Greece Rick Steves | 37.09 MB
English | 1196 Pages

Title: Rick Steves' Greece
Author: Rick Steves
Year: 2020

Pausanias Pausanias Travel And Memory In Roman Greece 2001 | 7.77 MB
English | 392 Pages

Title: 0195128168.pdf
Author: Susan E. Alcock
Year: 2003

Insight Guides Greece Travel Guide Ebook Insight Guides | 43.13 MB
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Title: Insight Guides Greece (Travel Guide eBook)
Author: Insight Guides
Year: N/A