From Athens to Troy, the glories of classical Greece are an essential part of our heritage and are echoed every day in the buildings and institutions we see around us.Â  But who were the visitors from afar who first appreciated the riches of the archaeological past of Greece and the Greek lands; who opened up the culture and its ancient remains? From as early as 1420, a few intrepid explorers made their way to Greece and Turkey, to recover the precious relics of the Greeksâ€™ classical past. Richard Stoneman tells their riveting stories. Â Â 

Land of lost gods: The search for classical Greece

Richard Stoneman

Hutchinson

In this wide-ranging anthology, Stoneman gathers a variety of responses evoked through the ages by the subtle stimulus of Greece.  Arrange topographically, the selections lead the reader from the Ionian Islands to Sparta and Attica, on to Northern Greece and the Aegean--conjuring up the history and wildness, the heat and beauty that have lured writers from Virgil to Henry Miller.  Paintings, etchings, and drawings of Greece from the last three centuries have been added to the text in this new expanded edition.

A Literary companion to travel in Greece

Literature & Fiction

Penguin

Since his death in the third century BC, each age has woven its own legends around the figure of Alexander the Great. If the Hebrew tradition saw him as a preacher and prophet, to the Persians he was alternately a true king and an arch-Satan, while in modern Greece he is revered more as a wise man than as a conqueror. All these very disparate traditions share roots in The Greek Alexander Romance. One of the most influential works of late classical Greek literature, it reached Europe in the Middle Ages, and its effects are still visible to us in illuminated manuscripts and cathedral sculptures portraying Alexander's fabulous adventures - his taming of the horse Bucephalus, the encounters with Amazons and Brahmins, the quest for the Water of Life, the ascent to heaven in a basket borne by eagles. Nowadays the Romance should be read not only as a literary masterpiece but also as fast-paced and wonderfully exuberant entertainment. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Greek Alexander Romance (Penguin Classics)

Pseudo-Callisthenes

Genre Fiction

Penguin Classics

The "Alexander Romance", attributed to Callisthenes, has been one of the most influential works of late Greek literature. Written in its original version probably in the 2nd or 1st century BC, it underwent a series of rewritings up to about the 3rd century AD. and was translated, with variations, into Syriac, Ethipoic, Armenian and Pahlavi, whence it contributed stories to the Qur'an and inspired the Persian writers Firdausi and Nizami and their Turkish followers. A Latin version was the basis for the extensive Alexander tradition in medieval Europe (all languages) which is still visible to us in manuscript illustrations and cathedral sculptures, for example, which portray such adventures of Alexander as the ascent into the air in a basket borne by eagles, the meeting with the amazons, the diving bell, the interview with the Brahmins or naked philosophers, and the search for the water of life.

The Greek "Alexander Romance"

Penguin??Books

You've never seen beasts this beastly before! Inside "Info Adventure's Dangerous Animals", there's a strange and deadly collection of wildlife, from poisonous spiders to monster man-eating sharks. It's frighteningly good fun!

Info Adventure Dangerous Animals

scholastic

A Traveller's History of Turkey

Travel

Asia

Cassell Reference

Megasthenes' Indica: A New Translation of the Fragments with Commentary | Richard Stoneman | Routledge | Paperback

History

Taylor and Francis Books

This book is part of a series for students and tourists who feel they need more background information on Turkey. This concise account covers everything from the legendary Flood of Noah, the early civilisation of Catal Huyuk 7000 years before Christ, the treasures of Troy, Alexander the Great, the Romans, Selcuks, Byzantines and the Golden Age of the Sultans to the changes of the 20th century.

A Traveller's History of Turkey (Traveller's History Series)

Interlink Pub Group Inc

A Traveller's History of Turkey (Traveller's History)

Middle East

Dangerous Animals (Young Telegraph Books)

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

Two-Can Publishing Ltd.

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