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About the Author

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa. He is the author of many books and translations, including Alexander to Actium, the poems of Catullus, and Apollonios Rhodios's The show more Argonautika, all published by UC Press. show less

Works by Peter Green

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Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (1991) 928 copies, 15 reviews

Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (1990) 412 copies, 7 reviews

The Greco-Persian Wars (1970) 309 copies, 5 reviews

The Hellenistic Age: A Short History (2007) 204 copies, 3 reviews

Ancient Greece: A Concise History (Illustrated National Histories) (1973) 174 copies, 2 reviews

The Parthenon (1973) 130 copies, 2 reviews

The Laughter of Aphrodite (1993) 95 copies, 3 reviews

Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture (1989) 67 copies, 1 review

Beyond the Wild Wood: The World of Kenneth Grahame, Author of the Wind in the Willows (1982) 59 copies, 1 review

Alexander The Great And The Hellenistic Age (2007) 52 copies, 1 review

Hellenistic History and Culture (1993) — Editor — 48 copies, 1 review

The Sword of Pleasure: Being the Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Lucius Cornelius Sulla (1957) 39 copies, 2 reviews

Achilles His Armour (1967) 29 copies, 4 reviews

The Erotic Poems (1983) 26 copies, 2 reviews

The Shadow of the Parthenon: Studies in Ancient History and Literature (1972) 22 copies, 1 review

Essays in Antiquity (1960) 21 copies

Armada from Athens (1970) 18 copies, 1 review

Kenneth Grahame, a biography (1959) 17 copies

From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern (2004) 17 copies

Alexander the Great (1970) 16 copies

Xerxes at Salamis (1970) 16 copies, 2 reviews

Cleopatra: A Sphinx Revisited (2011) — Contributor — 9 copies

Habeas Corpus and Other Stories (1962) 7 copies

John Skelton. Writers and Their Work No. 128 (1978) 6 copies

Sir Thomas Browne (1959) 5 copies

The year of Salamis, 480-479 BC (1970) 5 copies, 1 review

The expanding eye;: A first journey to the Mediterranean (1957) 3 copies

Kenneth Grahame, 1859-1932 (1959) 3 copies

Juvenalia (2014) 2 copies

Sixteen Satires 1 copy

Les guerres médiques: 499-449 avant J.-C (2015) 1 copy

Essays By Divers Hands, being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, New Series, vol. XXXI 1 copy

'Finding Ithaca ... ' in AFR, 30 March 2007 [review of Dalby's 'Rediscovering Homer', Bittlestone's 'Odysseus Unbound'… 1 copy

'He Found the Real Alexander' in NYRB 59/18, 22 Nov 2012 [review of Ernst Badian's 'Collected Papers on Alexander the… 1 copy

'Down with the polloi' in TLS 5099, 22 Dec 2000 [review of Munn's 'School of History: Athens in the age of Socrates'] 1 copy

Lesbos and the Cities of Asia Minor (The Dougherty Foundation Lecture, 1984) 1 copy

'The Great Marathon Man' in NYRB 55/8, 15 May 2008 [review of Strassler's 'Landmark Herodotus' & Asheri & co's… 1 copy

'The Sea & the Text' in New Republic, 12 July 1999 1 copy

'Hex payment: despite deconstructionist efforts to subsume ancient magic & religion' in ARB, Oct 2000 [review of bks on 1 copy

The House-Hunters 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Argonautica (0003) — Translator, some editions — 2,199 copies, 20 reviews

The Satires of Juvenal (0127) — Translator, some editions — 1,840 copies, 15 reviews

Amores + Ars amatoria + Medicamina faciei femineae + Remedia amoris [in translation] (1990) — Translator, some editions — 1,144 copies, 5 reviews

The Prime of Life (1960) — Translator, some editions — 925 copies, 8 reviews

Massacre at Montsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade (1959) — Translator, some editions — 361 copies, 2 reviews

Daily Life in Greece at the Time of Pericles (1965) — Translator, some editions — 271 copies

A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (2007) — Contributor — 73 copies

The Borgias (1972) — Translator, some editions — 58 copies

Neue Pinakothek : Munich (2005) — Translator, some editions — 27 copies

Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens: Books 11-14.34 (480-401 BCE) (2010) — Translator, some editions — 18 copies

Transitions to Empire: Essays in Greco-Roman History, 360-146 B.C., in Honor of E. Badian (Oklahoma Series in Classical (1996) — Contributor — 17 copies

Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography (1997) — Contributor — 16 copies

The Macedonians in Athens, 322-229 B.C.: Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Athens,… (2003) — Contributor — 7 copies

Mnemai, classical studies in memory of Karl K. Hulley (1984) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Green, Peter Morris
Other names: Delaney, Denis (pseudonym)
Birthdate: 1924-12-22
Date of death: 2024-09-16
Gender: male
Nationality: England
UK
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Places of residence: Burma
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Lesbos, Greece
Athens, Greece
Austin, Texas, USA (show all 7)
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Education: Charterhouse School
University of Cambridge (Trinity College) (classics)
Occupations: sergeant, Royal Air Force
editor
literary journalist
writer
Professor of Classics
Professor of Humanities (show all 8)
translator
historian
Relationships: Green, Carin (wife)
Organizations: University of Texas, Austin
Tulane University
Awards and honors: Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)

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Reviews

Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical… by Peter Green

One of the best nonfiction books I've read. Yes, the martial elements are extremely granular, but Green manages to make it all compelling nonetheless.

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BeauxArts79 | 14 other reviews | Nov 4, 2023 |

The Sword of Pleasure, etc by Peter Green

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (138–78 BC), was the first ruler of Rome to seize power through Civil War. He was a conservative, and found his backers around the Senate among the aristocratic group. His rule was bloody,and chiefly concerned with teaching the plebians their place. Peter greene does his best to lace all this in a favourable light. But the general effect is that to most modern eyes, this was an awful man doing vilent and ugly things to keep his own life prosperous. but it does read well, and is a considerable piece of Conservative propaganda.… (more)

½

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DinadansFriend | 1 other review | Jun 30, 2023 |