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Peter Green

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Born: December 21 1924

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Peter Morris Green is a British classical scholar noted for his works on the Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history, generally regarded as spanning the era from the death of Alexander in 323 BC up to either the date of the Battle of Actium or the death of Augustus in 14 AD. Green's most famous books are Alexander of Macedon, a historical biography first issued in 1970, then in a revised and expanded edition in 1974, which was first published in the United States in 1991; his Alexander to Actium, a general account of the Hellenistic Age, and other works. He is the author of a translation of the Satires of the Roman poet Juvenal, now in its third edition.

In the Second World War he served in Burma and afterwards studied classics at Cambridge University. After working as a journalist and writing historical novels, he taught classics in Athens until 1971, when he became Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1997 he became Emeritus Professor of Classics at Austin. He has been Visiting Professor at various universities in the USA.

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Peter Green

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Books from Peter Green

The Erotic Poems

Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.

The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

The Greco-Persian Wars

Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age

The Hellenistic Age: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)

The Erotic Poems

Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees

The Fourth Dimension

The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos

Ancient Greece: A Concise History

The Sword of Pleasure

The Erotic Poems (Classics)

Achilles His Armour

King Lazarus

Okapi Fever

In Detail: Solar Architecture

Antoine

Essays in Antiquity

Prime of Life