Greek History
Bust of Homer
Credited with much of the traditional epic poetry of his day, Homer is a legend of Greek history and literature.
Grand Pegasus Winged Horse Sculpture
The hoof of Pegasus is said to have created the spring of Hippodrome, the source of inspiration in Greek history. Classically trained artist Pennington has sculpted this muse almost two feet high and cast him in quality designer resin as a centerpiece for home or garden.
Geometric Greece
Provides the only detailed archaeological survey of the ninth and eighth century BC - an astonishingly creative era in Greek history.
Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories
Polybius was a Greek statesman and political prisoner of Rome in the second century B.C.E. His Histories provide the earliest continuous narrative of the rise of the Roman Empire.
Ancient Greek Literary Letters
The only major work of its kind on Greek epistolography, this book examines short selections of fictional letters, and excerpts from histories, epics and novels, from the second and third centuries CE; the so-called 'Golden Age' of prose epistolography.
A History of Greek Literature
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Albrecht Dihle presents the most up-to-date history of Greek literature from its Homeric origins to the age of Augustus. Greek literary production throughout this period is embedded in its historical and social context.