Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks

332 For Further Reading
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of Exeter Press, 1995.
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Williams, D., and J. Ogden. Greek Gold: Jewellery of the Classical World. New
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Woodford, S. An Introduction to Greek Art. London: Gerald Duckworth,
1986.
Woodford, S. The Trojan War in Ancient Art. London: Gerald Duckworth,
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Woodhouse, C. M. Modern Greece: A Short History. London and Boston:
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Wycherley, R. E. How the Greeks Built Cities. 2d edition. London: Macmillan,
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Wycherley, R. E. The Stones of Athens. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press, 1978.
Zaidman, L. S., and P. Schmitt Pantel. Religion in the Ancient Greek City.
Translated by P. Cartledge. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University
Press, 1992.
NOVELS
Among the most celebrated novels about ancient Greece are those by
M. Renault. They include The Last of the Wine (1956), The Mask of
Apollo (1966), The King Must Die (1958), The Bull from the Sea (1962),
The Nature of Alexander (1975), and The Persian Boy (1972). Nobel prize
winner William Golding’s final novel, The Double Tongue (1995), left
in draft form at his death, tells the story of one of the last priestesses
of Apollo at Delphi. Naomi Mitchison’s The Corn King and the Spring
Queen (1933), which has been described as “a triumph of empathy
with vanished cultures,” is set in Skythia and Sparta. Also highly
recommended is Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire (1984), which is