The Hellenistic World
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Characteristic works
Greek Realities: Life and Thought in Ancient Greece by Finley Hooper (4), Greek Religion by Walter Burkert (6), The Hellenistic world by F. W. Walbank (5), Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson (5), The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization by Barry S. Strauss (4), History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky (4), The Rise of the Greeks by Michael Grant (4), The Archaeology of the Roman Economy by Kevin Greene (3), Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox (5), The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse by Paul Cartledge (4), The Babylonians : an introduction by Gwendolyn Leick (3), An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC–AD 409 by David Mattingly (3), Sallust (Loeb Classical Library No. 116) by Sallust (3), The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan (3), The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (5), Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC by Robin Osborne (3), The Greek World after Alexander by Graham Shipley (3), Heaven: A History by Colleen McDannell (3), The Early Greeks by R. J. Hopper (3), The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why An Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future by Cynthia Eller (3), The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian (4), 69 A.D.: The Year of Four Emperors by Gwyn Morgan (3), Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox (4), Roman Britain: Outpost of the Empire by H. H. Scullard (3), The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green (3)
Most-held works
The Iliad by Homer (10), The Odyssey by Homer (10), The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (8), The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens by Aeschylus (7), The Aeneid (translations) by Virgil (7), The Histories by Herodotus (7), Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox (6), Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles (6), The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien (6), The Republic of Plato by Plato (6), Greek Religion by Walter Burkert (6), The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (6), The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (6), Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (6), The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (5), The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar (5), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (5), Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson (5), The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (5), The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius (5), Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (5), Othello by William Shakespeare (5), The Hellenistic world by F. W. Walbank (5), A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (5), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (5)
