Some Basic Bibliography on Greece 

Here is a preliminary bibliography for Greece.

Items marked with asterisk (*) are those we recommend you look at first.

Archaeology/Art

*R. E. Wycherley, The Stones of Athens

Susan Woodford, An Introduction to Greek Art

John Boardman , Greek Art

*William R. Biers , The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction

John Griffiths Pedley, Greek Art and Archaeology

Emily Vermeule, Greece in the Bronze Age

J. J. Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece

M. Robertson, A History of Greek Art/A Shorter History of Greek Art

A. W. Lawrence, Greek Architecture

Osbert Lancaster, Sailing to Byzantium: An Architectural Companion

Ancient Works

*Herodotus HISTORY OF THE PERSIAN WARS

*Homer ILIAD

*Homer ODYSSEY

Aristophanes ACHARNIANS, PEACE, LYSISTRATA

Aeschylus ORESTEIA

Sophocles PHILOCTETES, OEDIPUS AT COLONUS

Euripides MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS, BACCHAE

Thucydides HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

Procopius THE SECRET HISTORY

Historical Fiction on Ancient World/Byzantium

*Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine

Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo

Mary Renault, The King Must Die

Mary Renault, The Bull from the Sea

Gore Vidal, Julian

Robert Graves, Count Belisarius

Steven Pressfield, The Gates of Fire

Steven Pressfield, The Tides of War

Guide Books

*Blue Guide to Greece

Blue Guide to Crete

Michelin Guide to Greece

*Pausanias Guide to Greece

A Traveler's History of Greece (T. Boatswain, C. Nicolson)

Rough Guide:  Greece

Lonely Planet:  Greece

Greek History

* A. R. Burn, Pelican History of Greece

J. B. Bury, History of Greece

N. G. L. Hammond , A History of Greece to 322 BC

Bury/Meiggs, A History of Greece

Will Durant The Life of Greece

Paul Lemerle, History of Byzantium

Philip Sherrard, Time-Life Byzantium

C. M. Woodhouse, Modern Greece: A Short History

Richard Clogg, History of Modern Greece

Travel Journalism

*Patrick Leigh-Fermor, Roumeli

Patrick Leigh-Fermor, Mani

Robert Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts (chapters on Greece)

Nicholas Gage, Eleni

Religion

Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church

Walter Burkert, Greek Religion

*Jon Mikalson, Ancient Greek Religion

Fiction/Poetry (Modern)

*Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba, The Greek Passion, Freedom or Death, Report to Greco

Olivia Manning, Friends and Heroes (from the Balkan Trilogy)

C. P. Cavafy, Poems