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Peter Green


Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
December 22, 1924

Died
September 16, 2024

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Peter Morris Green was a British classical scholar and novelist noted for his works on the Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history, generally regarded as spanning the era from the death of Alexander in 323 BC up to either the date of the Battle of Actium or the death of Augustus in 14 AD.
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Alexander of Macedon, 356-3...

4.21 avg rating — 2,054 ratings — published 1991 — 21 editions
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The Greco-Persian Wars

4.11 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 1970 — 17 editions
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Alexander to Actium: The Hi...

4.05 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1990 — 15 editions
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The Hellenistic Age: A Shor...

3.56 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions
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Alexander the Great

3.54 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1970 — 13 editions
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Ancient Greece: A Concise H...

3.61 avg rating — 75 ratings19 editions
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The Laughter of Aphrodite: ...

3.36 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1965 — 8 editions
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The Sword of Pleasure

3.46 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1957 — 13 editions
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Classical Bearings: Interpr...

3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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Achilles His Armour

3.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1967
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“There are times when a nation desires a king or a dictator; times of confusion and uncertainty when they go down on their knees to one man and beg him to accept absolute power over them.”
Peter Green, The Sword of Pleasure

“Axioms are often cherished long after reason would counsel their abandonment.”
Peter Green, Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.

“The attitude of city-state Greeks to this sub-Homeric enclave was one of genial and sophisticated contempt. They regarded Macedonians in general as semi-savages, uncouth of speech and dialect, retrograde in their political institutions, negligible as fighters, and habitual oath-breakers, who dressed in bear-pelts and were much given to deep and swinish potations, tempered with regular bouts of assassination and incest. In a more benevolent mood, Athenians would watch the attempts of the Argead court to Hellenize itself with the patronizing indulgence of some blue-blooded duke called upon to entertain a colonial sugar-baron.”
Peter Green, Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.: A Historical Biography