Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4465)
1411.
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus EN
GreeceDescription:
Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled to a rock in the Caucasus. This is his punishment for giving the gift of fire to humankind and for thwarting Zeus’s decision to exterminate the human race. Prometheus’s pain is unceasing, but he refuses to recant his commitment to humanity, to whom he has also brought the knowledge of writing, mathematics, medicine, and architecture. He hints that he knows how Z... continue
1412.
Roman Lives : A Selection of Eight Lives by Plutarch EN
Description:
Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power.
1413.
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides EN
Description:
Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War combines brilliant narrative and penetrating analysis; his writing has had more lasting influence on western thought than all but Plato and Aristotle. This masterly new translation is the most comprehensive single-volume edition currently available.
1414.
The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus EN
Description:
Comprised of three tragedies - The theme is the chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argus, a chain finally broken only by the intervention of the goddess Athene_______________
1415.
The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus EN
Description:
Robin Hard is Tutor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading.
1416.
The Complete Poems of Sappho by Sappho, Willis Barnstone (translator) EN
Description:
A prize-winning poet offers a contemporary translation of poems written by the greatest Greek love poet, whose thrilling lyric verse and mystique endures to be rediscovered by each generation. Original.
1417.
Alexander the Great : A Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis EN
Description:
The career of Alexander the Great, from age 15, to his death is portrayed in a very realistic, exciting fashion instead of the usual romanticized version.
1418.
Why I Killed My Best Friend by Amanta Michalopoulou EN
Description:
A young girl named Maria is lifted from her beloved Africa and relocated to her native Greece. She struggles with the transition, hating everything about Athens: the food, the air, the school, her classmates and the language. Just as she resigns herself to misery, Anna arrives. Though Anna's refined, Parisian upbringing is the exact opposite of Maria's, the two girls instantly bond over their common foreignness, becoming inseparable in their relationship as each other's best friend, but also as each other's fiercest competition; with boys, talents and politics.
1419.
The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides EN
Description:
Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. Weweep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in The Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her... continue
1420.
Toda a Grécia Antiga em um papo de elevador : Um diálogo divertido e surpreendente sobre a história, a mitologia e a arqueologia gregas by Theodōros Papakōstas PT
Description:
Como uma dança ousada deu origem à democracia? Quem foi o sapateiro que transcreveu os diálogos de Sócrates? Por que Heráclito disse que Homero, autor da Ilíada e da Odisseia, merecia uma surra? “Neste livro, o arqueólogo Theodōros Papakōstas faz algo inédito e ousado: aproxima a arqueologia do nosso dia a dia." – Dimítris Plántzos, professor de Arqueologia Dois homens estão presos num elevador. Quando começam a conversar, um deles revela que é arqueólogo, e esse é o ponto de partida para uma viagem fascinante pela Grécia Antiga. Neste livro, o arqueólogo Theodōros Papakōstas leva o leitor a u... continue