FURTHER READING

The Long View

Doumanis, Nicholas. A History of Greece. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2010.

Gallant, Thomas (general editor). The Edinburgh History of the Greeks (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).

Horrocks, Geoffrey. Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers. 2nd ed. Medford, MA, and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Thomas, Carol. Greece: A Short History of a Long Story, 7000 BCE to the Present. Malden, MA, and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

In Greek, the classic treatment is the six-volume History of the Greek Nation by Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos, published between 1860 and 1877. Among the many successors to this work is the multiauthor Greek History. 2nd ed. [in Greek]. Athens: Ekdotiki Athinon, 2007. Mycenaeans and Minoans

Cline, Eric, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000–1000 BC). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Fitton, Lesley. Minoans. London: British Museum Press, 2002.

Mac Sweeney, Naoise. Troy: Myth, City, Icon. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Schofield, Louise. The Mycenaeans. London: British Museum Press, 2007.

Shelmerdine, Cynthia, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Watrous, L. Vance. Minoan Crete: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. The Dark Age and Archaic Greece

Graziosi, Barbara. Homer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Hall, Jonathan. A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200–479 BCE. Rev. ed. Malden, MA, and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Hansen, Mogens. Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Lavelle, Brian. Archaic Greece: The Age of New Reckonings.

Morris, Ian, and Barry Powell, eds. A New Companion to Homer. Leiden and New York: Brill, 2011.

Osborne, Robin. Greece in the Making, 1200–479 BCE. London: Routledge, 1996. The Classical Heyday

Cartledge, Paul. Democracy: A Life. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

. The Spartans: An Epic History. London: Pan, 2013.

. Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece. New York: Abrams, 2020.

Holland, Tom. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West. London: Little, Brown, 2005.

Hornblower, Simon. The Greek World, 479–323 BCE. 4th ed. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011.

Kagan, Donald. The Peloponnesian War. London: Harper Perennial, 2005.

Rhodes, P. J. A History of the Classical Greek World, 478–323 BC. 2nd ed. Medford, MA, and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2010. The Rise of the Macedonians and Alexander the Great

Anson, Edward. Philip II, the Father of Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Bosworth, A. B. Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Bowden, Hugh. Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Cartledge, Paul. Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past. London: Pan Macmillan, 2005.

Lane Fox, Robin. Alexander the Great. London: Penguin, 1973.

Worthington, Ian. Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

. Philip II of Macedonia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. The Hellenistic World

Allen, Joel. The Roman Republic and the Hellenistic Mediterranean: From Alexander to Caesar. Medford, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2020.

Boardman, John.

Chaniotis, Angelos. Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian 336 BC–AD 138. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.

Errington, R. Malcolm. A History of the Hellenistic World, 323–30 BC. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.

Manning, J. G. The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305–30 BC. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Shipley, Graham. The Greek World After Alexander, 323–30 BC. London: Routledge, 2000.

Stoneman, Richard. The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.

Thonemann, Peter. The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. The Roman Empire and Early Christianity

Barnes, Timothy. Constantine: Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011.

Beard, Mary. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. London: Profile, 2015.

Fox, Robin Lane. Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine. London: Penguin, 1988.

Freeman, Charles. A New History of Early Christianity. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2011.

Spawforth, A. J. S. Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Vermes, Geza. Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30–325. London: Penguin, 2013.

Whitmarsh, Tim. Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. From the Roman Empire to the Byzantine (Late Antiquity)

Brown, Peter. The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150–750. London: Thames & Hudson, 1971.

Cameron, Averil. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, AD 395–700. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2012.

Haldon, John. The Empire That Would Not Die: The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640–740. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.

Heather, Peter.

Kulikowski, Michael. Imperial Tragedy: From Constantine’s Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy, AD 363–568. London: Profile, 2019.

Mitchell, Stephen. A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284–641. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

Sarris, Peter. Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500–700. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. The Byzantine Empire and the Crusades

Angold, Michael. The Fourth Crusade: Event and Context. London: Pearson Longman, 2003.

Brubaker, Leslie, and John Haldon. Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680–850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Cameron, Averil. The Byzantines. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

Frankopan, Peter. The First Crusade: The Call from the East. London: Vintage, 2013.

Herrin, Judith. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 2007.

Kaldellis, Anthony. Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Phillips, Jonathan. The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. London: Pimlico, 2005.

Stathakopoulos, Dionysios. A Short History of the Byzantine Empire. London: I. B. Tauris, 2014. Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade and the Early Ottoman Period (to 1669)

Demacopoulos, George. Colonizing Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019.

Finkel, Caroline. Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923. London: John Murray, 2005.

Greene, Molly. The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

Holton, David, ed. Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Inalcik, Halil. The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300–1600. London: Phoenix, 2000.

Nicol, Donald.

Pizanias, Petros. The Making of the Modern Greeks, 1400–1820. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

Wilson, N. G. From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance. 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Greeks and Greece in Modern Times

Beaton, Roderick. Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation. London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 2019.

Brewer, David. The Flame of Freedom: The Greek War of Independence, 1821–1833. London: John Murray, 2001.

. Greece: The Decade of War: Occupation, Resistance and Civil War. London: I. B. Tauris, 2016.

Clogg, Richard. A Concise History of Greece. 4th ed. rev. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Kalyvas, Stathis. Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Kitromilides, Paschalis. Enlightenment and Revolution: The Making of Modern Greece. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Kostis, Kostas. History’s Spoiled Children: The Formation of the Modern Greek State. Translated by Jacob Moe. London: Hurst, 2018.

Llewellyn-Smith, Michael. Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman, 1864–1914. London: Hurst, 2021.

Mazower, Mark. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe. London: Allen Lane, 2021.

St. Clair, William. That Greece Might Still Be Free: The Philhellenes in the War of Independence. London: Open Book, 2008; first published 1972.

Thomas, Gallant. Modern Greece: From the War of Independence to the Present. 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2016.

Tziovas, Dimitris. Greece from Junta to Crisis: Modernization, Transition and Diversity. London: I. B. Tauris, 2021.

Veremis, Thanos. A Modern History of the Balkans: Nationalism and Identity in Southeast Europe. London: I. B. Tauris, 2017.