Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgment presents those selections that comprise

When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States.

This book elucidates the many uses of the slogan of freedom by ancient Greeks, beginning with the Peloponnesian war and continuing throughout the Hellenistic pe

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Gre

Tells the story of the Greeks' struggle for freedom from Ottoman oppression.