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A collection of free Hellenic History PDFs, from the Bronze Age to Modern day Greece. If you are interested in works about Ancient Greek Religion, please look through my blog as I give them away freely.

if you struggle with opening a PDF or need a pdf that is locked behind a paywall, use sci-hub to access them.

Bronze Age

Cline, E. H. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean. OUP USA. [link]

Dickinson, O. (2007). The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change Between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC (1st ed.). Routledge. [link]

Harding, A. (2021). Bronze Age Lives. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. [link]

Knapp, B. A., & Dommelen, V. P. (2015). The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean (Illustrated ed.). Cambridge University Press. [link]

Taylor, Lindsay, (2019) The Snake Goddess Dethroned: Deconstructing the Work and Legacy of Sir Arthur Evans. Honors College. [link]

Archaic Greece

Dillon, M., & Garland, L. (2010). Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World) (3rd ed.). Routledge. [link]

Raaflaub, K. A., & Wees, V. H. (2012). A Companion to Archaic Greece (1st ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. [link]

Rayor, D. J., & Johnson, W. R. (1991). Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (First ed.). University of California Press. [link]

Shapiro, H. A. (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World). Cambridge University Press. [link]

Classical Greece

Kinzl, K. H. (2010). A Companion to the Classical Greek World (1st ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. [link]

Sourvinou-Inwood, C. (1996). “Reading” Greek Death: To the End of the Classical Period. Clarendon Press. [link]

Hellenistic and Roman Greece

Bugh, G. R. (2006). The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World (Illustrated ed.). Cambridge University Press. [link]

Erskine, A. (2005). A Companion to the Hellenistic World. Wiley-Blackwell. [link]

Stevens, K. (2019). Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cambridge University Press. [link]

Byzantine Greece

Garland, L. (2011). Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527–1204 (1st ed.). Routledge. [link]

Hussey, J. M., & Louth, A. (2010). The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (Oxford History of the Christian Church) (Illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. [link]

K. (2021). Alexiad (09) by Komnene, Anna [Paperback (2009)]. Penguin Clasics, Paperback(2009). [link]

Lauritzen, F. (2013). The Depiction of Character in the Chronographia of Michael Psellos (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization). Brepols Publishers. [link]

Neville, L. (2019). Byzantine Gender (Past Imperfect) (New ed.). Arc Humanities Press. [link]

Psellos, M., & Kaldellis, A. (2006). Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos (Michael Psellos in Translation) (1st ed.). University of Notre Dame Press. [link]

Psellos, M., Papaioannou, S., & Barber, C. (2017). Michael Psellos on Literature and Art: A Byzantine Perspective on Aesthetics (Michael Psellos in Translation) (1st ed.). University of Notre Dame Press. [link]

Shepard, J. (2009). The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492 (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. [link]

Venetian possessions and Ottoman rule (15th century – 1821)

Davies, S., & Davis, J. L. (2007). Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece (Hesperia Supplement) (Volume XL ed.). American School of Classical Studies at Athens. [link]

Halstead, H. (2018). Greeks without Greece: Homelands, Belonging, and Memory amongst the Expatriated Greeks of Turkey (Routledge Studies in Modern European History) (1st ed.). Routledge. [link]

Naar, D. E. (2016). Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) (1st ed.). Stanford University Press. [link]

Vionis, A. K. (2013). A Crusader, Ottoman, and Early Modern Aegean Archaeology: Built Environment and Domestic Material Culture in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Cyclades, … Studies Leiden University Press). Leiden University Press. [link]

Zarinebaf, F., Bennet, J., & Davis, J. L. (2005). A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century (Hesperia Supplement). American School of Classical Studies at Athens. [link]

Modern Greece

Avdela, E., Gallant, T., Papadogiannis, N., Papastefanaki, L., & Voglis, P. (2017). The social history of modern Greece: a roundtable. Social History,43(1), 105–125. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2018.1394037[link]

Beaton, R. (2004). Folk Poetry of Modern Greece (Revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. [link]

Featherstone, K., Papadimitriou, D., Mamarelis, A., & Niarchos, G. (2011). The Last Ottomans: The Muslim Minority of Greece 1940–1949 (New Perspectives on South-East Europe) (1st ed. 2011 ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. [link]

Honor, Masculinity, and Ritual Knife Fighting in Nineteenth-Century Greece. (2000). The American Historical Review. Published. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/105.2.359[link]

McGuckin, J. A. (2010). The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to its History, Doctrine, and Spiritual Culture (1st ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. [link]

Books That Cover Multiple Eras

Carney, E. D., & Müller, S. (2020). The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World (1st ed.). Routledge. [link]

James, S. L., & Dillon, S. (2015). A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (1st ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. [link]

Llewellyn-Jones, L. (2003). Aphrodite’s Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece (Illustrated ed.). Classical Press of Wales. [link]

Mackridge, P. (2010). Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766–1976 (Illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. [link]

Ober;, J. (2021). The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (The Princeton History of the Ancient World) by Josiah Ober (2015–05-04). Princeton University Press; First Edition edition (2015–05-04). [link]

Petropoulos, J. (2014). Greek Magic (Monographs in Classical Studies) (1st ed.). Routledge. [link]

Rawson, B. (2011). A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Book 86) (1st ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. [link]

Tziovas, D. (2016). Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700. Taylor & Francis. [link]

I hope this collections helps y’all with knowing more about Greek History - I haven’t read them all, and that is something I plan to fix. Feel free to recommend more books, knowledge is good!