The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

7 best books like The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World (John Boardman): Borstal Boy, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History, Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy & the Birth of Democracy, The Gods of the Greeks, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages, The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization, Greek Religion

Borstal Boy

Author	Brendan Behan
ISBN	1567921051

This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed...

Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History

Author	James A. Morone
ISBN	0300105177

This extraordinary retelling of American political history shows that—despite the clear separation of church and state—religion lies at the heart of American politics.
“This is American history the way I like it, prodigiously researched and vivaciously told. Mr. Morone has a knack...

Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy & the Birth of Democracy

Author

John R. Hale

The epic true story of Themistocles and the Battle of Salamis, and a rousing history of the world's first dominant navy and the towering empire it built.

The Athenian Navy was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world. It engineered a civilization, empowered the world's first...

The Gods of the Greeks

Author	Karl Kerényi
ISBN	0500270481

After a brief introduction, the complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans and from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to Apollo, Hermes and the reign of Zeus, touching upon the Affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reaches...

Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages

Author	R.W. Southern
ISBN	0140137556

The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the West the political and religious community were inextricably bound together, and because the Church was so intimately involved with the world,...

The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization

Author	Barry S. Strauss
ISBN	0743244516

On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia...

Greek Religion

Author	Walter Burkert
ISBN	0674362810

In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in 1977, it has now been translated into English with the assistance of the author himself. A clearly structured and readable...