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FC   N9-24   Greek Music
FC   N9-38   A Storied Hill
FC   N9-48   The Jupiter Olympus
FC   N9-50   A Little Sculpture Gallery
FC   N9-55   Stories of Greek Painters
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WS4   Greece
♥   Greece by James M’Clymont (1906)
Beautiful watercolor illustrations of Greece
♥   $   ​Greek Myths by Olivia Coolidge
Under Olivia Coolidge's skillful pen, the landscape of early Greece and its famous legends bloom with vigor and are perfectly suited to the adventure-seeking reader.
♦   $   ​The Greek Way  by Edith Hamilton (1930)
'Based on a thorough study of Greek life and civilization, of Greek literature, philosophy, and art, The Greek Way interprets their meaning and brings a realization of the refuge and strength the past can be to us in the troubled present. . . What the Greeks discovered, how they brought a new world to birth out of the dark confusions of an old world that had crumbled away, is full of meaning for us today who have seen an old world swept away.'
♥   The World’s Story Volume 4  by Eva March Tappan (1914)
World History is Story, Art and Song
HISTORICAL
FC   WF4   Famous Men of Greece
FC   WF8   Story of Greece
♥   $   ​Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
Story of Civilization
♥   First History of Greece  by Elizabeth Sewell (1857)
The first chapter helps a student understand the geography of Greece so that the rest of the story will make more sense.  Lots of interesting details.
♥   Helmet and Spear  by Rev. A. Church
Stories from the Wars of the Greeks and Roman
♥   Historical Tales: Greece by Charles Morris (1904)
♦   $   ​The Echo of Greece  by Edith Hamilton (1957)
"Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention ...for it is the prelude to the end of Greece...The kind of events that took play in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world."
♥   The Life of Greece by Will Durant
Story of Civilization
♥   The Story of Alexander’s Empire by J. P. Mahaffy (1887)
Story of the Nations Series
♥   The Story of Greece by James Harrison (1885)
Story of the Nations
HISTORICAL FICTION
♦   The King of Men by Olivia Coolidge
BIOGRAPHIES
FC    G4-110    Samuel Howe
FC    G4-334    E.D.  Cushman
►  ♥   Alexander the Great by Jacob Abbott
Makers of History Series
♥   Alexander the Great by Ada Russell
Heroes of All Times
♥   Famous Men of Ancient Times  by Samuel Goodrich (Peter Parley) (184?)
♥   ​Oliver Cromwell by Estelle Ross
Heroes of All Times
♥   Pyrrhus by Jacob Abbott
Makers of History Series
♥   The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans  translated by John Dryden
All 1300+ pages, tiny print
♥   The Youth's Plutarchs Lives for Boys and Girls  by Edward Ellis (1895)
DELPHIAN COURSE
Vol. 2: 69-226   Greek Mythology
Vol. 2: 227-374   Story of Greece
Vol. 2: 375-428   Greek Social Life
Vol. 2: 429-480  Greek Literature
Vol. 3: 1-86  Greek Drama
Vol. 3: 87-377   Greek Philosophy/Poetry/Literature/Art
Vol. 5: 49-60   Greek Fiction
RECOMMENDED READING:
MYTHOLOGY
♥   Manual of Mythology by Murray
♥   Myths of Greece and Rome by Guerber
♥   Classic Myths by Gayley
♥   The Mythology of Greece and Rome by Fairbanks Appleton
♥   Classical Mythology by D'Ooge
♥   Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne
♥   Wonder Book by Hawthorne
♥   Greek Gods, Heroes, and Men by Harding
♥   Gods and Heroes by Francillon
♥   Classic Myths in Art by Addison
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HISTORY/SOCIAL LIFE
The History of Greece, 4 volumes by Holm
  • ♥   Volume 1  Up to the end of the 6th Century BC
  • ♥   Volume 2  5th Century BC
  • ♥   ​Volume 3  4th Century BC to Death of Alexander
  • ♥   Volume 4  The Graeco-Macedonian Age to LastMacedonian Monarchy in Roman Empire
♥   History of the Orient and Greece for High Schools by Bostford
♥   Source Book of Greek History by Fling
♥   Life of the Ancient Greeks by Gulick
♥   ​The Greek View of Life by Dickinson
♥   Progress of Hellenism in Alexander's Empire by Mahaffy
♥   Social Life in Greece by Mahaffy
♥   Greek History by Zimmern (for young readers)
♥   ​Story of the Greeks by Guerber (for young readers)

DRAMA
♥   Aeschylus, trans. Plumptre
♥   ​Aritosphanes, trans. Frere
♥   Euripides, trans. Coleridge
♥   Sophocles,  trans. Coleridge
♥   ​The Ancient Classical Drama by Moulton

GREEK POETRY/ LITERATURE
♥   History of Greek Literature, Fowler
♥   Ancient Greek Literature, Murray
♥   Masterpieces of Greek Literature, ed. Wright
♥   Studies in Greek Poets, Symonds
♥   History of Greek Literature, Mahaffy

GREEK ART
♥   Grammar of Greek Art, Percy Gardner
♥   History of Greek Art, F.B. Tarbell
♥   ​Handbook of Greek Sculpture, E.A. Gardner

PHILOSOPHY
♥   History of Philosophy, Weber
♥   The Greek Philosophers, Benn
♥   Outlines of Greek Philosophy, Zeller
♥   Short History of Greek Philosophy, Marshall
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