Peter Green (historian)
Peter Morris Green (born December 22, 1924 in Great Britain ) is a British journalist , author and historian .
Life
Green served in the Royal Air Force in Burma during World War II . After the war he studied at Trinity College of Cambridge University . In the following years he wrote various historical novels and worked as a journalist. In 1963 he moved with the family to the Greek island of Lesbos . There he worked as a translator (among other things he translated Ovid ; Bob Dylan used his text templates), but then went to Athens, where he taught on subjects of the classical period from 1966 to 1971. In 1982 he received a call to the University of Texas at Austin . In 1986 he was appointed to Tulane University in New Orleans . Today (2012) he teaches as a professor at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and is visiting professor at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina .
Publications
- The Expanding Eye: A First Journey to the Mediterranean . Adebard-Schman, 1957. scribd.com
- Habeas Corpus And Other Stories. Eight Short Stories, 1954.
- Achilles His Armor . P. Murray, London, 1955.
- under the pseudonym Denis Delaney: Cat in Gloves. Gryphon Books, 1956.
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The Sword of Pleasure, being the Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Lucius Cornelius Sulla . World Pub. Co., Cleveland, USA 1957.
- German: The purple of power: The memoirs of the famous Lucius Cornelius Sulla . Goverts, Stuttgart 1960.
- Writers & their Work: Sir Thomas Browne . Longman for the British Council , London 1959.
- Essays in Antiquity . J. Murray, London 1960.
- Writers & their Work: John Skelton . Longman for the British Council, 1960.
- The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos . 1965
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The Year of Salamis , 480-479 BC , in the United States: Xerxes at Salamis . 1970.
- with a new introduction and new bibliography published as: The Greco-Persian Wars . University of California Press, Berkeley 1996, ISBN 0-520-20313-5 .
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Alexander the Great . 1970.
- last reissued as: Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 BC. A Historical Biography. University of California Press, Berkeley 1991.
- German: Alexander the Great. Human or myth? Ploetz, Würzburg, ISBN 3-87640-060-0 .
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The Parthenon . 1973.
- German: Parthenon . Ebeling, Wiesbaden.
- Ovid : The Erotic Poems . 1982
- Alexander to Actium : The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age . University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990.
- as translator: The Argonautika: The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece by Apollonios Rhodios . University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997.
- Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture . University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998.
- The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters . 2004.
- The Poems of Catullus . Works English / Latin. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005, ISBN 0-520-24264-5 .
- Alexander The Great and the Hellenistic Age. Phoenix, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7538-2413-9 .
- Iliad / Homer: A new Translation by Peter Green. University of California Press, Oakland, California, USA 2015, 2015, ISBN 978-0-520-28141-7 .
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SURNAME | Green, Peter |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Green, Peter Morris (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British author, journalist and historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1924 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Great Britain |