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	Peter Green (historian)
		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.
		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.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pe/peter_green__historian_.html (217 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.01.13
		Green's readers will be amused by his recollections of the British public schoolboy's twin discoveries about the world of the sexual paranormal and the tools of philological inquiry as he chases to ground portions of Juvenal his teachers wanted to keep from him.
		Green is an old-fashioned humanist; his answer to the elitist pretensions of a classicism that killed its intellectual and moral vitality is to insist on an immediate, tangible relationship with the ancient world.
		Green apparently wants historians to find coherent shifts along axes that, though not necessarily fixed, make some sense for contemporary intellectuals to understand their own historical position relative to antiquity: thus issues like the emergence of philosophical ataraxia and ruler-worship are good examples of what scholars of the Hellenistic age simply must address.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr-cgi-dev/1999/1999-01-13.html (1776 words)

	Historical_Revisionism
		Historians approach their subject from a variety of different angles and it will be the purpose of this paper to determine how Peter Green, the historian of ancient history, approaches his particular subject.
		Green's view of the revisionist's duty to history includes the periodic challenging of established opinion in the name of intellectual honesty, however, Green is mindful that a danger exists in a too exuberant revisionist attitude, namely the unforgiveable sin of a priorism.
		Green, who is equally skeptical of attaining objectivity, still sees the moral question to be tied irrevocably to the historical method and, in view of the horrific events of the this century, of vital importance for the twentieth century historian.
	members.tripod.com /~Kekrops/Hellenistic_Files/Historical_Revisionism.html (3405 words)

	Amazon.de: Rezensionen zu The Greco-Persian Wars: English Books: Peter Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Peter Green is that extremely unique combination: a brillant historian who writes beautifully and has a sense of humor.
		Peter Green, in this eminently entertaining and solidly-researched history of the campaigns of Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea, treats Herodotus, Plutarch, Thucydides and the rest as equals, giving them respect where merited and skepticism where necessary.
		Green, for some years a resident of Greece, is not afraid to use more current history (political and military) to cast light upon events and motivations of the past.
	www.amazon.de /Greco-Persian-Wars-Peter-Green/dp/customer-reviews/0520203135 (657 words)

	Lived Fast, Died Young - New York Times
		Peter Green's Alexander is much closer to the second of these alternatives, the "minimalist" Alexander, as Mr.
		Green begin his literary career as a historical novelist: his early "Sword of Pleasure," a fictional biography of the Roman dictator Sulla, was in the Mary Renault class.
		Green, who is now the Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, can extinguish the fireworks when he feels like it and tease out an extended learned argument.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE2D61738F931A1575AC0A967958260 (844 words)

	Amazon.ca: Alexander to Actium: Books: Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"Green's style is lively, he draws striking parallels with recent history and recent persons; he paces his narrative in a way that makes it very readable, while deftly keeping the reader aware of the whole of his large-scale patterning of these complex and ramified chains of events.
		Green is a stuffy self-important bore, judging by this tome.
		Peter green does not display the ability of Eugen Weber of UCLA to bring the Hellenistic age to life for the average student.
	www.amazon.ca /Alexander-Actium-Green/dp/0520056116 (1587 words)

	List of historians
		Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.
		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
		Simon Rutar[?], (1851-1903), historian, geographer, archaeologist and geologist.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/li/List_of_historians.html (238 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - The Greco-Persian Wars - Peter Green - Product Details :: ttgapers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Peter Green brilliantly retells this historic moment, evoking the whole dramatic sweep of events that the Persian offensive set in motion.
		Peter Green obviously did his home work and is an expert on the Greco-Persian Wars.
		Peter Green is by no means boring or mundane in his narration.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0520203135-locale-us.html (982 words)

	Amazon.de: The Greco-Persian Wars: English Books: Peter Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Unlike so many of his fellow historians, Green understands the importance of a dramatic narrative, sometimes employing novelistic techniques to relate what happened.
		Green is a natural storyteller, and The Greco-Persian Wars is a delight to read, even for readers who have no background or special interest in the classical world.
		Green's accounts of both Persian and Greek strategies are clear and persuasive; equally convincing are his everyday details regarding the lives of soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary citizens.
	www.amazon.de /Greco-Persian-Wars-Peter-Green/dp/0520205731 (931 words)

	Green, Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1, University of Texas Press
		Yet this important historian has been consistently denigrated as a mere copyist who slavishly reproduced the works of earlier historians without understanding what he was writing.
		In his masterful introductory essay, Green demolishes the traditional view of Diodorus and argues for a thorough critical reappraisal of this synthesizing historian, who attempted nothing less than a "universal history" that begins with the gods of mythology and continues down to the eve of Julius Caesar's Gallic campaigns.
		Peter Green is James R. Dougherty, Jr., Centennial Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/gredio.html (288 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Greco-Persian Wars: Books: Peter Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Peter Green retells this historic moment, evoking the sweep of events that the Persian offensive set in motion.
		Green's accounts of both Persian and Greek strategies are persuasive and he provides everyday details regarding the lives of soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary citizens.
		Peter Green's expertise lies in providing an interesting mix of bare fact and knowledgeable inference that allows you to appreciate something of the time - a sniff of the atmosphere...
	www.amazon.co.uk /Greco-Persian-Wars-Peter-Green/dp/0520203135 (1173 words)

	Amazon.com: The Greco-Persian Wars: Books: Peter Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"Peter Green's The Year of Salamis is deservedly famous, combining scholarship and imagination with the ability to tell a stirring tale."--J. Lazenby, author of The Defence of Greece, 490-479 B.C.
		"Peter Green's The Year of Salamis is deservedly famous, combining scholarship and imagination with the ability to tell a stirring tale." (J. Lazenby, author of The Defence of Greece, 490-479 B.C.) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
		Historian, critic, essayist, translator, and novelist, Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus in Classics at the University of Texas and Visiting Professor of History at the University of Iowa.
	www.amazon.com /Greco-Persian-Wars-Peter-Green/dp/product-description/0520203135 (647 words)

	The Weekly Standard
		When Peter Green was a youthful soldier, he served, persistent rumor insists, as the model for the irresistible Guy Perron in Paul Scott's The Jewel in the Crown.
		But Green is a familiar of Mars as well as Venus, a fierce and witty controversialist, a reviewer of lively renown: His knockabout battle in print with Victor Davis Hanson over the future of classical scholarship in America was savored even by the most jaded connoisseurs of classicists' invective.
		Green's edition of Catullus is bilingual--Latin on the left and English on the right--with a pointed introduction before and plump notes behind: The admirer without Latin and the classical scholar both get their due and never feel each other's elbows.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Check.asp?idArticle=11907&r=txlwi (392 words)

	Philip of Macedon
		The Roman historian Curtius confirmed that by the time the Macedonian army entered Asia, there was a huge force of 50,000 Greeks (both from mainland Greece and from Asia Minor) in the army serving the Persian king, waiting to face off the Macedonians.
		It is now that he made what the ancient historians considered to be the greatest mistake of his life.
		But both ancient and modern historians recognize that without the military and political efforts of Philip, Alexander would have never been as successful as he was.
	www.ancientmacedonia.com /PhilipofMacedon.html (3378 words)

	American Historical Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nineteenth-and twentieth-century historians treated the Hellenistic state as an essentially Greek--that is, European--political form and saw in it, therefore, a sharp break with the past.
		Modern Hellenistic historians, influenced by their belief that the polis was not a significant factor in Greek life after the death of Alexander the Great, centered their histories on the great powers of the period--the kingdoms of Alexander's successors and the Romans.
		By contrast, no historian from European Greece is known to have written on Alexander or his successors after the early third century B.C. In drama and historiography, the Greek tradition, as it had crystallized in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., lived on in Hellenistic Greece.
	www.historians.org /pubs/Free/BURSTEIN.HTM (13247 words)

	Battle of the Granicus - Factasy
		According to the historian Arrian, the Persians placed their cavalry in front of their infantry, and drew up on the right (east) bank of the river.
		The steep riverbank was (properly) guarded by infantry that rained javelins down upon Alexander and his forces, who were badly mauled and forced to retire.
		Even if Alexander eventually won the battle, he would have had ample motivation to cover up his first initial defeat on Asian soil, and he would be loath to admit that he was wrong and Parmenion was right.
	www.factasy.com /alexander/granicus.shtml (516 words)

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		The original Fleetwood Mac featuring Peter Green is about to be reissued and remastered.
		The Lilac Fairy (Melanie Hawkes) softens the punishment by decreeing the girl will simply fall into a deep sleep for 100 years, only to be awakened by her true love.
		It's important to note that this new initiative resulted from the year-long effort of a 20-member Task Force on Health Information, led by Peter Green, M.D., associate dean for emerging technologies and staffed by Julie Gottlieb, assistant dean for policy coordination.
	www.lycos.com /info/peter-greene.html (471 words)

	List of historians by area of study - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study.
		William Brandon (1914–2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans.
		Li Ao (born 1935) - Historian, author, and politician and broadcaster in the Republic of China on Taiwan
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/List_of_historians_by_area_of_study (1097 words)

	AMICI: Classical Iowa--Interview with Peter Green
		Peter Green has had an amazing career as a novelist, poet, translator, fiction critic, film and TV critic, and ancient historian.
		After that there was no stopping me. I retired on the blue carpet under the grand piano with a stack of books, and in a sense I've never come out since.
		For more about Peter, along with links to some of his essays, reviews, and books, see the New York Review of Books: Peter Green
	www.cornellcollege.edu /classical_studies/amici/classicaliowa/greeninterview.shtml (1549 words)

	Review of the History Channel's "Alexander" (Alexander the Great on the Web) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Green shines—he's nearly as entertaining on screen as he is in the classroom.
		There are few flat-out "errors." But as any historian of Alexander will tell you, the trick lies in picking a path through the many conflicting (or simply fictitious) incidents, to form a coherent, defensible narrative.
		If the reenactments are dreadful, the on-camera presenter "actor/celebrity" Peter Woodward (so-called on his own website) is rather better, and from the Granicus on he gets more and more excitable.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /alexander/review-historychannel.html (1455 words)

	Ptolemy XI of Egypt . Ptolemaic dynasty . Lucius Cornelius Sulla . Alexandria . Peter Green (historian) . Egypt . Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		However, nineteen days after the marriage, Ptolemy murdered his bride for unknown reasons, an unwise move since Berenice was very popular; Ptolemy was immediately lynched by the citizens of Alexandria.
		Peter Green historian Peter Green, Alexander to Actium University of California Press, 1990, pp.
		Peter Green born 1924 is a United Kingdom British classical scholar noted for his Alexander to Actium, a general account of the Hellenistic...
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Ptolemy_XI_of_Egypt (495 words)

	"Culture War, Take Two - Forward.com"
		At first, the effects of Hellenism were enjoyed, as the historian Peter Green puts it in his classic work, “Alexander to Actium,” only by “a select club of progressive Hellenizers,” a “specially favored cosmopolitan class dedicated to social and political self-advancement,” seeking “sociopolitical privilege and status.”
		Of course it is the victory of the religious fundamentalists — who defied Antiochus and his pet Jewish progressives with their “liberal polytheism,” as Green puts it — that we as Jews celebrate.
		As Professor Green writes, the conservatives “were stronger, and more numerous, and the more passionate in their beliefs: they stood firm in the face of odds, and were prepared to make sacrifices, indeed to die, for what they held most dear.
	www.forward.com /articles/culture-war-take-two (811 words)

	Alexander The Great - Crystalinks
		However, most historians believe that he did.Alexander let it be known that he intended to launch a campaign against the tribes of Arabia.
		Alexander's character also suffers from the interpretation of historians who themselves are subject to the bias and idealisms of their own time.
		Good examples are W. Tarn, who wrote during the late 19th century and early 20th century, and who saw Alexander in an extremely good light, and Peter Green, who wrote after World War II and for whom Alexander did little that was not inherently selfish or ambition-driven.
	www.crystalinks.com /alexanderthegreat.html (3823 words)

	Grave marker long-overdue
		Green, a fl man, served with New York units on two tours of duty, then returned here to live out his life working his forge and collecting a military pension.
		Although the Green family plot was found in Brick Cemetery off Shelburne Line Road, no marker for Green himself has been located, and exactly where he was buried could not be determined.
		Russell said yesterday she is doing research now in preparation for a presentation on Green prior to Veterans Day in November.
	www.masslive.com /hampfrank/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1118217362137100.xml&coll=1 (468 words)

	Sparta Pages: Thermopylae, the Alamo of Greece
		Some ancient historians describe a commando-style raid on the Persian camp during this time with the objective of killing Xerxes, or at least sowing confusion and destruction among the invaders.
		The Great King was only too glad to make use of this veritable "diabolus ex machina," as historian Peter Green calls him, and ordered the brigade of Immortals to carry out the strenuous task of navigating the steep, winding, and frequently narrow track.
		The death-struggle of the Greeks at Thermopylae was long celebrated by ancient historians, and there is no reason to doubt that it was a particularly desperate and merciless contest.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~sparta/topics/essays/academic/alamo.htm (4883 words)

	news_and_reviews
		Ben Green died in 1976 at age 68.
		Peter, I'm looking forward to reading the entire book....
		Peter, Wish we had been able to spend more time at the
	www.greenskills.net /dadswar/news_and_reviews.html (920 words)

	The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos (Peter Green)
		I have always been passionately fond of ancient Greek history and historical novels — I have read Mary Renault's many times — so it is bewildering that I have only just discovered Peter Green.
		This is a common device, but not one that is easy to pull off convincingly, since it requires taking a "native" perspective.
		As a noted historian and classicist, he is better qualified than most to tackle the subject: he weaves historical events — what few are known from c.
	dannyreviews.com /h/The_Laughter_of_Aphrodite.html (187 words)

	Ari Siletz - Commentaries: April 2006
		In a changing area at the entrance to the facility, I was handed a green protective suit, along with mask and gloves.
		To Western historians such as Green, the defeat of the mighty Persian Empire by the clever Greeks showcases the triumph of the creative Western mind over the passive and submissive mindset of the East.
		Several historians have argued that the Abbasid caliphate, the period that saw the rise of Islam as a world civilization, represented the shift in Islam from Arab to Iranian culture.
	www.arisiletz.com /commentaries/archive/2006_04_01_archive.shtml (4986 words)

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