Download - Voyages to Antiquity

We have put together a selection of books
that we feel would provide the perfect
accompaniment to your voyage.
Available from all good book stores.
Reading Guide
GREEK ISLANDS & TURKEY
Athens to Athens (September 16 sailing)
NON-FICTION
Colin McEvedy
New Penguin Atlas of Ancient
History
ISBN: 9780140513486, Paperback
In a chronological series of maps and
accompanying text it traces the movements
of races in Europe, the Mediterranean area
and the Near East from 50,000BC to the
fourth century AD.
John Julius Norwich
Thucydides
Edith Hall
The Peloponnesian War
Introducing the Ancient Greeks
ISBN: 9780192821911, Paperback
ISBN: 9781847922588, Hardback
'The greatest historian that ever lived'. Such
was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c.460400BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian
War, the momentous struggle between Athens
and Sparta as rival powers and political
systems that lasted for twenty-seven years
from 431 to 404BC, involved virtually the
whole of the Greek world, and ended in the
fall of Athens.
Edith Hall gives us a revelatory way of viewing
this scattered people, identifying ten unique
personality traits that she shows to be unique
and central to the widespread ancient Greeks.
The Middle Sea
Gilbert Highet
ISBN: 9781844133086, Paperback
The Classical Tradition:
Greek and Roman Influences
on Western Literature
The Mediterranean has nurtured three of
the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity,
witnessed the birth or growth of three of
our greatest religions, and links three of the
world's six continents. This book tells the
story of the Middle Sea itself – a story that
begins with the Phoenicians and the Pharaohs
and ends with the Treaty of Versailles.
Eric Newby
On the Shores of the
Mediterranean
ISBN: 9780007367917, Paperback
'Why don't you start in Naples and go
clockwise round the Mediterranean
instead of dashing off in all directions like
a lunatic?' Fortunately, Eric Newby followed
his wife Wanda's advice, and so begins the
wonderfully madcap adventure.
Simon Price & Peter Thonemann
The Birth of Classical Europe:
A History from Troy to Augustine
ISBN: 9780140274851, Paperback
This comprehensive, readable survey of
the Classical past is ambitious in scope: it
ranges from the Aegean world of the second
millennium BC to Augustine's City of God.
More than that, it considers not only how
the ancient world is remembered today but
also how the Greeks and Romans perceived
and felt the influence of their own past.
ISBN: 9780199377695, Paperback
Originally published in 1949, Gilbert Highet's
seminal The Classical Tradition is a herculean
feat of comparative literature and a landmark
publication in the history of classical reception.
Leonard Cottrell
The Bull Of Minos
ISBN: 9781845119423, Paperback
This is the story of two of the most heroic, and
controversial, figures in archaeology: Heinrich
Schliemann, who discovered the remains of Troy,
and Arthur Evans who unearthed the great city
of King Minos at Knossos. Replete with drama
and adventure, The Bull of Minos tells of the
3,000-year- old civilisations that were brought
back to life, of the extraordinary men who
toiled in their dusty ruins and of the magic and
mystery of life in a world of gods and warriors.
Peter Jones
Eureka! Everything You Ever Wanted
to Know About the Ancient Greeks
but Were Afraid to Ask
ISBN: 9781782395164, Paperback
Peter Jones tells their epic story, which begins
with the Trojan War and ends with the rise of
the Roman Empire, by breaking down each
major period into a series of informative nuggets.
Jenny March
The Penguin Book of Classical Myths
ISBN: 9780141020778, Paperback
What were the twelve labours of Heracles?
Why did Zeus turn himself into a shower of
gold? What was the name of the guard-dog of
the Underworld? Which two-faced Roman god
gave his name to the month January? What is
the answer to the riddle of the Sphinx? This
book answers these questions.
Iain Ross
Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
ISBN: 9781107479944, Paperback
From his boyhood, Oscar Wilde was haunted
by the literature and culture of ancient
Greece, but until now no full-length study
has considered in detail the texts, institutions
and landscapes through which he imagined
Greece. Print on Demand/Order Early.
Barry Unsworth
Crete
ISBN: 9780792255581, Paperback
Renowned British novelist Unsworth
documents his fascinating travels in Crete,
largest of the Greek isles and home to the
Minoan civilisation of 1500BC – one of the
most glittering and sophisticated cultures
the world has ever seen.
Judith Herrin
Byzantium
ISBN: 9780141031026, Paperback
Makes accessible and understandable the
grand sweep of Byzantine history; from
the founding of its magnificent capital
Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in 330,
to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Byzantine Art
cruelty and devastation of their love affair and
her emergence as a woman alone.
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
ISBN: 9780192842114, Paperback
Hilary Sumner-Boyd & John Freely
ISBN: 9780099547075, Paperback
This book focuses on the art of Constantinople
from 330 to 1453 and the stages this went
through in reaction to historical circumstances
as the city progressed from the Christian centre
of the Eastern Roman Empire, to the crisis
of attack from the new religion of Islam, to
revived medieval splendour and then, after the
Latin capture of 1204 and the reoccupation
by Byzantine after 1261, to a period of
cultural reconciliation with east and west.
Strolling Through Istanbul
Zachary Mason uses Homer's linear narrative
and explodes it: presenting alternative and
contradictory fragments of familiar stories – The
Trojan Horse, The Cyclops Circe, and The Sirens –
allowing us to see Homer's masterpiece afresh.
Robin Cormack
ISBN: 9781848851542, Paperback
This classic guide to Istanbul is here, for the
first time since its original publication thirtyseven years ago, published in a completely
revised and updated new edition. Woven
throughout are vivid anecdotes, secret histories,
hidden gems and every major place of interest
the traveller will want to see.
James Morwood*
Brian Sewell
Hadrian
South from Ephesus
ISBN: 9781849668866, Paperback
ISBN: 9781780761206, Paperback
Weary of what he called the "tyranny" of
western art, the author first visited Turkey
in 1975. But Turkey surprised him and he
delighted in the unexpected wealth of Greek,
Roman, Byzantine and Islamic cultures there,
returning three of four times a year until
1990. This book presents a portrait of Turkey
and its artistic heritage.
Looking in detail at key themes and topics of
Hadrian's life, this title explores his Spanish
background, his military service and initiatives
of peace, his architectural legacy, his love of
Athenian culture, and his relationship with
Antinous. It also covers the social aspects of life
in the Roman empire in the second century.
Zachary Mason
Tasha Alexander
Tears of Pearl
ISBN: 9781472108609, Paperback
Set amid the beauty and decadence of the
Ottoman Empire, Lady Emily's latest adventure
is full of intrigue, treachery and romance.
Looking forward to the joys of connubial bliss,
newlyweds Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves,
diplomats of the British Empire, set out toward
Turkey for an exotic honeymoon.
MAPS / GUIDES / REFERENCE
Freytag and Berndt
Mediterranean Cruise Map
Robert Byron
ISBN: 9783707912906, Map
Clive Foss
The Station
National Geographic
Ephesus After Antiquity
ISBN: 9781848855076, Paperback
Turkey, Mediterranean Coast Map
ISBN: 9780521133715, Paperback
In 1927, at the age of 22, Robert Byron
journeyed to Athos with his friends and
embarked on an adventure whose influence
would remain with him for the rest of his life.
Through compelling descriptions of the monks
of Athos, their daily lives and the treasures held
in their monasteries, Byron illuminates an
ancient and enigmatic world, long shrouded
from the eyes of outsiders. The Station reveals
the roots of a fascination with the Byzantine
world.
ISBN: 9781566956123, Map
The author's ability to visualise and convey
what the city must have looked like at each
stage, coupled with his strong narrative sense
and varied choice of illustrations, will appeal
to the general reader interested in Ephesus
and to archaeologists, historians and those
interested in church history.
Print on Demand/Order Early
Bettany Hughes
Helen of Troy
FICTION
ISBN: 9781845952143, Paperback
As soon as men began to write, they made
Helen of Troy their subject; for close on
three thousand years she has been both the
embodiment of absolute female beauty and
a reminder of the terrible power that beauty
can wield. For millennia she has been viewed
as an exquisite agent of extermination. But
who was she?
Jenny MacLeod
Gallipoli
Athens
ISBN: 9783829707077, Paperback
Helen Partovi-Fraser
Athens, the Hidden Gems
ISBN: 9781326057336, Paperback
Blue Guides
Greece: The Aegean Islands
ISBN: 9781905131358, Paperback
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Marco Polo Guides
Tyrant
Turkey
ISBN: 9781447276685, Paperback
ISBN: 9783829707244, Paperback
But who was Dionysius? Historians have
condemned him as one of the most ruthless,
egocentric despots. But he was also patron of
the arts, a dramatist, poet and tender lover.
Marco Polo Guides
Istanbul
ISBN: 978382970684, Paperback
Charles Cumming
Lawson Wood
A Colder War
Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean
Including Marine Invertebrates
ISBN: 9780007467501, Paperback
ISBN: 9780199644872, Hardback
Marco Polo Pocket Guide
In post-war Turkey, by contrast, the memory
of Gallipoli played an important role in the
formation of a Turkish national identity,
celebrating both the ordinary soldier and
the genius of the republic's first president,
Mustafa Kemal.
Perfect for fans of John le Carre, a gripping
and suspenseful spy novel from 'the master of
the modern spy thriller' (Mail on Sunday)
MI6's Head of Station in Turkey is killed in a
mysterious plane crash. Amelia Levene, chief
of the Secret Intelligence Service, wants the
incident investigated – quickly and quietly.
Claire Bloom*
Leaving a Doll’s House
The Song of Achilles
ISBN: 9781844089444, Paperback
ISBN: 9781408821985, Paperback
In this memoir, actress Claire Bloom recounts
her professional and personal relationships including her marriage to and divorce from
writer Philip Roth. She reveals the passion,
A breathtakingly original rendering of the
Trojan War – a devastating love story, and a tale
of gods and kings, immortal fame and the
human heart.
ISBN: 9781472921789, Paperback
Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean reveals the
fascinating wealth of sea life found in this
diverse but little-documented region.
Madeline Miller
* Claire Bloom and James Harwood will lecture on board this cruise