Destination Resources
Lectures
- Greek Civilization
- The Parthenon Marbles
- The Byzantine Empire
- The Ottoman Empire
- In Odysseus’s Wake (The Iliad and The Odyssey)
- The Military Order of Knights
- Alexander the Great
- How to Read a Carpet
- Milestones in Norwegian History
Ancient Greece
History
- Beaton, Roderick. The Greeks: A Global History.
- Cartledge, Paul. Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World.
- Cartledge, Paul. The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece.
- Cline, Diane. The Greeks: An Illustrated History (National Geographic).
- Cline, Eric H. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed.
- Cline, Eric H. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations.
- Glahn, Sandra L. Nobody’s Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament.
- Hayes, Natalie. Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths.
- Herodotus: The Histories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition).
- Holland, Tom: Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West.
- Hughes, Bettany. The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life.
- Hughes, Bettany. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
- Issa, Islam. Alexandria: The City that Changed the World.
- Martin, Thomas R. Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times.
- Rogers, Guy MacLean. The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos (Synkrisis)
- Stebbing, Peter. Artemis and the Artemision: The Mystery Centre at Ephesus.
- Waterfield, Robin. Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece.
- Wright, N.T. Paul: A Biography.
Literature
- Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides: The Greek Plays.
- D’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin. D’aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths.
- Fry, Stephen. Mythos.
- Fry, Stephen: Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined.
- Hamilton, Edith. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes.
- Homer, The Iliad.
- Homer, The Odyssey.
- Lane Fox, Robin. Homer and His Iliad.
- Miller, Madeline. The Song of Achilles: A Novel.
- Miller, Madeline. Circe.
Alexander the Great
Books
- Arrian. The Campaigns of Alexander.
- Axworthy, Michael. A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind.
- Breasted, James Henry. Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age.
- Everett, Anthony. Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death.
- Freeman, Philip. Alexander the Great.
- Goldsworthy, Adrian. Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors.
- Lane Fox, Robin. Alexander the Great.
- Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings.
- Renault, Mary. Fire From Heaven (Alexander the Great series, Book 1- fiction).
- Renault, Mary. The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great series, Book 2- fiction).
- Renault, Mary. Funeral Games (Alexander the Great series, Book 2- fiction).
- Rufus, Quintus Curtius. The History of Alexander the Great.
- Strauss, Barry. Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership.
Audio Visual Entertainment
- Alexander (Oliver Stone).
- In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (Michael Wood).
- The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great.
The Byzantine Empire
History
- Crowley, Roger. Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453.
- Crowley, Roger. Empires of the Sea: the Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Conquest for the Center of the World.
- Evans, James Allen. The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian.
- Gibbon, Edward. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
- Herrin, Judith. Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe.
- Herrin, Judith. Byzantium: the Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire.
- Hughes, Bettany. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities.
- Kaldellis, Anthony. Stream of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade.
- Kaldellis, Anthony. A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire.
- Komnene, Anna. The Alexiad.
- Luttwak, Edward, N. The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire.
- Madden, Thomas F. Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World.
- Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium (three volumes).
- Norwich, John Julius. A Short History of Byzantium.
- Perry, David. Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade.
- Phillips, Jonathan. The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople.
- Potter, David. Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint.
- Potter, David. Constantine the Emperor.
- Prokopios, The Secret History.
- Stephenson, Paul. The Byzantine World.
- Stephenson, Paul. New Rome: The Empire in the East.
- Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity.
Byzantine Art
- Aksit, Ilhan. Hagia Sophia – the History and the Architecture.
- Cormack, Robin. Byzantine Art (Oxford History of Art).
- Heath, Richard. Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels.
- Schwartz, Ellen C. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture.
- Teteriantnikov, Natalia B. Justinianic Mosaics of Hagia Sophia and their Aftermath.
The Crusades & The Military Order of Knights
History
- Abridge, Thomas. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land.
- Allen, Bruce Ware. The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John.
- Bradford, Ernie. The Shield and the Sword.
- Capponi, Niccolo. Victory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto.
- Carr, John. The Knights Hospitaller: A Military history of the Knights of Saint John.
- Cockerill, Sara. Eleanor of Acquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires.
- Crowley, Roger: The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades.
- Frankopan, Peter. The First Crusade: The Call from the East.
- Gordon, Jamie and Stacey, Mark. Outremer: Faith and Blood: Skirmish Wargames in the Crusades (Osprey Wargames).
- Haag, Michael. Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon’s Temple to the Freemasons.
- Hamilton, Bernard. The Leper King and his Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- Hosler, John D. The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionhearted, and the Battle that Decided the Third Crusade.
- Jones, Dan. Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands.
- Jones, Dan. Power and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages.
- Jones, Dan, The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of the God’s Holy Warriors.
- Maalouf, Amin. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes.
- Man, John. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire.
- Marcombe, David. Leper Knights: The Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, c. 1150-1544.
- Nicholson, Helen. The Knights Hospitaller.
- Nicholson, Helen. The Everyday Life of the Templars: The Knights Templar at Home.
- Nicholson, Helen. The Military Orders Volume II: Welfare and Warfare.
- Pangonis, Katherine. Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule.
- Phillips, Jonathan. The Life and Legend of Sultan Saladin.
- Reily-Smith, Jonathan. Hospitallers: The History of the Orders of St. John.
- Weir, Alison. Queens of the Crusades: England’s Medieval Queens.
Fiction about the Military Orders & Crusades
- Ball, David. Ironfire: A Novel of the Knights of Malta and the Last Battle of the Crusades.
- Chadwick, Elizabeth. Templar Silks.
- Penman, Sharon Kay. The Land Beyond the Sea.
- Penman, Sharon Kay. Devil’s Brood.
- Penman, Sharon Kay. A King’s Ransom.
- Penman, Sharon Kay. Lionheart.
- Willocks, Tim. The Religion.
Audio-Visual Entertainment
The Ottoman Empire
History
- Baer, Marc David. Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs.
- Casale, Giancarlo. The Ottoman Age of Exploration.
- Cavaliero, Roderick. Ottomania: the Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient.
- Clot, Andre. Suleiman the Magnificent.
- Faroqhi, Suraiya. Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans.
- Finkel, Caroline. Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire.
- Fromkin, David. Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition.
- Goodwin, Jason. Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire.
- Howard, Douglas A. A History of the Ottoman Empire.
- Mikhail, Alan. God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World.
- Norwich, John Julius. Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe.
- Parker, Geoffrey. Emperor: A New Life of Charles V.
- Pierce, Leslie: Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire.
- Provence, Michael. The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
- Ready, Martin. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World.
- Rogan, Eugene L. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East.
- Yüksel, Chihan, The Ottomans and the Mamluks: Imperial Diplomacy and Warfare in the Islamic World.
Fiction set in the Ottoman Empire
- De Bellaigue, Christopher. The Lion House: The Coming of a King.
- King, Charles. Midnight at the Pera Palace.
- Pamuk, Orhan, Istanbul: Memories and the City.
- Pamuk, Orhan. The Museum of Innocence.
- Pamuk, Orhan. My Name is Red.
- Pamuk, Orhan, Snow.
- Said, Kurban. Ali and Nino: A Love Story.
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