Peter Green (sejarawan)

Peter Morris Green (l. 22 Desember 1924) adalah seorang sarjana klasik Britania Raya yang terkenal karena karyanya tentang Aleksander Agung dan Periode Helenistik dalam sejarah kuno, umunya dianggap sebagai yang mencakup era dari kematian Aleksander pada 323 SM hingga baik tanggal dari Pertempuran Actium atau kematian Augustus pada 14 M. Buku Green yang paling terkenal adalah Alexander of Macedon, sebuah biografi sejarah yang pertama dikeluarkan pada 1970, kemudian direvisi dan edisi diperluas pada 1974, yang pertama dipublikasikan pada 1991; Alexander to Actium nya, sebuah catatan umum Periode Helenistik, dan karya lainnya.

Dia juga menulis terjemahan Satires, yakni sebuah puisi Roma, Juvenal.

Karya

• The Expanding Eye - A First Journey To The Mediterranean (1952) Illustrated with photographs.
• Habeas Corpus And Other Stories (1954) Eight Short Stories
• Achilles His Armour (1955) (historical novel about Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War).
• Cat in Gloves (Under pseudonym Denis Delaney) (1956), Gryphon Books
• The Sword of Pleasure (1957) (fictional memoirs of Sulla)
• Kenneth Grahame: A Biography: The Dramatic and Human Story of the Fascinating and Complex Man Who Wrote The Wind in the Willows (1959)
• Writers & their Work - Sir Thomas Browne (1959) Longman for the British Council
• Writers & their Work - John Skelton (1960) Longman for the British Council
• Essays in Antiquity (1960)
• The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel About Sappho of Lesbos (1965)
• The Year of Salamis, 480-479 BC (1970) (UK) = Xerxes at Salamis (1970) (USA)
• Alexander the Great (1970)
• Armada from Athens (1970)
• The Shadow of the Parthenon: Studies in Ancient History and Literature (1972)
• The Parthenon^[pranala nonaktif permanen] (1973)
• A Concise History of Ancient Greece to the Close of the Classical Era^[pranala nonaktif permanen] (1973)
• Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.; A Historical Biography (1974; reissue in U.S., 1991, as indicated below)
• Ancient Greece: An Illustrated History (1979)
• Ovid: The Erotic Poems (1982)
• 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 Argonautica by Apollonios Rhodios, (translation) (1997)
• The Greco-Persian Wars (1996) (update of The Year of Salamis)
• From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern (2004)
• The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters (2004)
• The Poems of Catullus (2005)
• Alexander The Great and the Hellenistic Age (2007)
• The Hellenistic Age: A Short History (2007)

Ulasan buku

• "The Women and the Gods" The New York Review of Books 54/11 (28 June 2007): 32-35 [reviews Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece]

Pranala luar

• 2003 interview, with picture
• List of Green's contributions to The New York Review of Books