Greeks

Not Even My Name: A True Story  by Thea Halo, Picador, 2001.  Biography and Memoir This is a biography of Sano Halo, written by her daughter, Thea Halo. When Sano Halo was a girl, she lived in northern Turkey, in the area south of the Black Sea. Pontic Greeks have been living in this region since classical times, the days of Ancient Greece. Many Greeks have also been living in Ionia, the part of Turkey (Anatolia) bordering the Mediterranean, and in Cappadocia, a region in sou

The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece-and Western Civilization  by Barry S. Strauss, Simon & Schuster, 2005.  Greco-Persian War: Ancient Persia had expanded its empire to include the Ionian Greeks, the Greeks on the west coast of Anatolia, and was attempting to expand its empire to include Greece itself. This book describes a sea battle in this war that took plane in 480 B.C near the island of Salamis. If the Greeks had lost the war, perhaps western civ

A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War  by Victor Davis Hanson, Random House, 2006.  Peloponnesian War   The author describes the Greek civil war between Attica and Sparta.  Athens and Piraeus   Athens was the capital of the region called Attica. Athens was a major naval power and the center of a huge commercial empire. Many of the city states around it were its subjects. Athens build not only a wall around itself, but a long wall to

Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth, Crown, 2009.

Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization  by Bruce S. Thornton, Encounter Books; Revised ed. edition, 2002.

The Other Greeks: The Family Farm & the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization by Victor Davis Hanson, Free Press, 1995.