Peter Green (historian)
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Peter Green (born 1924) is a British classical scholar noted for his Alexander to Actium, a general account of the Hellenistic Age, and other works. He is also the author of a vivid, and extremely funny, translation [1] of the Satires of the Roman poet Juvenal .
After World War II service in Burma, he attended Trinity College of Cambridge University. He subsequently wrote historical novels and worked as a journalist. In 1963 he and his family moved to the Greek island of Lesbos, where he was a translator, and then to Athens, where he was recruited to teach classics for the College Year in Athens.
Green taught in Athens from 1966 to 1971, then accepted a visiting professorship at University of Texas at Austin, and subsequently stayed for many years.
Green also has a visiting professorship at East Carolina University.
[edit] Works
- The Year of Salamis, 480-479 BC (1970) (UK) = Xerxes at Salamis (1970) (USA)
- Alexander the Great (1970)
- The Shadow of the Parthenon: Studies in Ancient History and Literature (1972)
- The Parthenon (1973)
- A Concise History of Ancient Greece to the Close of the Classical Era (1973)
- Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.; A Historical Biography (1974)
- Ancient Greece: An Illustrated History (1979)
- Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture (1989)
- Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (1990)
- Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (1991)
- Andrei Tarkovsky: The Winding Quest (1993)
- The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel About Sappho of Lesbos (1993)
- The Greco-Persian Wars (1996) (update of The Year of Salamis)
- From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern (2004)
