Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.;: A historical biography (Pelican biographies)

GREEN, Peter

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin

This collection of essays represents Peter Green's observations on classical myth and is wide-ranging in the questions it asks, including, what did the Greeks think about myth? what factors were responsible for it? what was the role of magic and who designed it? From Hesiod's Works and Days , to Herodotus and Periclean Athens, to the mythicisation of Alexander's Alexandria, Green often sets Greek myth and history against one another, opening the door `into non-rational and quasi-rational modes of thought in which it becomes possible to write painful truths and unacceptable history'.

From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Texas Press

"I hadn't, till I really started digging, gauged the fierce intensity of the need for myth in the human psyche, of any age, or sensed the variety of motives dictating that need," writes Peter Green in the introduction to this wide-ranging collection of essays on classical mythology and the mythic experience. Using the need for myth as the starting point for exploring a number of topics in Greek mythology and history, Green advances new ideas about why the human urge to make myths persists across the millennia and why the borderland between mythology and history can sometimes be hard to map.Green looks at both specific problems in classical mythology and larger theoretical issues. His explorations underscore how mythic expression opens a door into non-rational and quasi-rational modes of thought in which it becomes possible to rewrite painful truths and unacceptable history—which is, Green argues, a dangerous enterprise. His study of the intersections between classical mythology and Greek history ultimately drives home a larger point, "the degree of mythification and deception (of oneself no less than of others) of which the human mind is capable."

Religion & Spirituality

Alexander the Great

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age

Alexander The Great And The Hellenistic Age: A Short History (Universal History)

History

Asia

Modern Library

Andrei Tarkovsky: The Fleeting Image

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Alexander to Actium: The Hellenistic Age

Ancient Civilizations

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture

In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the island of Lesbos (where he once lived) to the challenges of translating Ovid's wit and elegant eroticism into present-day English verse, from Victorian pederastic aesthetics to Marxism's losing battle with ancient history. This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism.

Thames&Hudson

Discusses the intellectual and political developments that distinguished the country's history from the beginnings of Minoan culture to the death of Alexander

Ancient Greece: A Concise History

Europe

Discusses the intellectual and political developments that distinguished the country's history from the beginnings of Minoan culture to the death of Alexander.

A concise history of Ancient Greece: To the close of the classical era

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