Peter Green (historian) - Definition and Overview

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.

After World War II service in Burma, he attended Trinity College of Cambridge University. He subseqently 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.

Works

• The Year of Salamis, 480-479 BC (1970)
• 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)
• From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern (2004)

External link

• 2003 interview, with picture (http://www.cornellcollege.edu/classical_studies/amici/classicaliowa/greeninterview.shtml)