Griechenland

Antike Weisheit und bahnbrechende Entdeckungen gedeihen in den sonnengebleichten Ruinen und Olivenhainen Griechenlands, wo Philosophen einst über die tiefsten Fragen des Lebens nachdachten. Diese Bücher erkunden sowohl das zeitlose griechische Denken als auch die faszinierenden Artefakte, die Jahrtausende überdauert haben, und bieten modernen Lesern frische Perspektiven auf Glück, Wissen und menschlichen Erfindungsgeist.

Griechenland Buchzusammenfassungen

A Theatre for Dreamers

von Polly Samson

A motherless girl joins a Greek island's artists and learns who pays for their golden summer.

3.40

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🎨 Real Artists Fictionalized 🍷 Bohemian Expats 🌿 Women Behind Genius

Immersiv

A Theatre for Dreamers

A motherless girl joins a Greek island's artists and learns who pays for their golden summer.

von Polly Samson 2021 354 Seiten

3.40

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🎨 Real Artists Fictionalized 🍷 Bohemian Expats 🌿 Women Behind Genius

Der Prozess und Tod des Sokrates

von Platon

Athens tried its greatest thinker. He turned a death sentence into philosophy's founding argument.

4.12

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🧠 Intellectual Humility ⚔️ Moral Courage

Der Prozess und Tod des Sokrates

Athens tried its greatest thinker. He turned a death sentence into philosophy's founding argument.

von Platon 58 Seiten

4.12

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🧠 Intellectual Humility ⚔️ Moral Courage

The Warrior Ethos

von Steven Pressfield • 2011

Why Spartans prized the shield above the sword, and what that says about living well.

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🎖️ Military Philosophy ⚔️ Warrior Traditions 🛡️ Honor Codes

The Warrior Ethos

Why Spartans prized the shield above the sword, and what that says about living well.

von Steven Pressfield 2011 112 Seiten

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🎖️ Military Philosophy ⚔️ Warrior Traditions 🛡️ Honor Codes

Zorba the Greek

von Nikos Kazantzakis • 1946

A Greek intellectual hires a wild miner in Crete and learns what books could never teach.

4.02

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🏛️ Philosophical Fiction 🏝️ Greek Island Setting 🕺 Free Spirit Mentor

Zorba the Greek

A Greek intellectual hires a wild miner in Crete and learns what books could never teach.

von Nikos Kazantzakis 1946 335 Seiten

4.02

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🏛️ Philosophical Fiction 🏝️ Greek Island Setting 🕺 Free Spirit Mentor

The Fury

von Alex Michaelides • 2024

On a private Greek island, a storm strands seven. A gunshot. One body. The killer remains.

3.36

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🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌪️ Atmospheric Suspense

The Fury

On a private Greek island, a storm strands seven. A gunshot. One body. The killer remains.

von Alex Michaelides 2024 298 Seiten

3.36

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🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌪️ Atmospheric Suspense

The Last Temptation of Christ

von Nikos Kazantzakis • 1955

On the cross, a carpenter dreams of a normal life, final test of his divine calling.

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✝️ Christ Retelling 🫀 Human Jesus ⚔️ Spirit Vs Flesh

The Last Temptation of Christ

On the cross, a carpenter dreams of a normal life, final test of his divine calling.

von Nikos Kazantzakis 1955 506 Seiten

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✝️ Christ Retelling 🫀 Human Jesus ⚔️ Spirit Vs Flesh

Persian Fire

von Tom Holland • 2005

An ancient clash of civilizations: how a tiny Greece stopped a superpower, and invented the West.

4.17

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🏛️ Ancient History 🦁 Persian Empire 🏺 Ancient Greece

Persian Fire

An ancient clash of civilizations: how a tiny Greece stopped a superpower, and invented the West.

von Tom Holland 2005 447 Seiten

4.17

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🏛️ Ancient History 🦁 Persian Empire 🏺 Ancient Greece

Outline

von Rachel Cusk • 2014

In Athens to teach writing, she listens to every story but tells none of her own.

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🖋️ Autofiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 📖 Stories Within Stories

Outline

In Athens to teach writing, she listens to every story but tells none of her own.

von Rachel Cusk 2014 249 Seiten

3.67

71.000+ Bewertungen

🖋️ Autofiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 📖 Stories Within Stories

Der Zug der Zehntausend

von Xenophon

An army of 10,000 Greeks, betrayed and stranded in Persia, must fight its way home.

4.11

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 📜 Military Memoirs 🚩 Leadership Under Crisis

Der Zug der Zehntausend

An army of 10,000 Greeks, betrayed and stranded in Persia, must fight its way home.

von Xenophon 375 Seiten

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 📜 Military Memoirs 🚩 Leadership Under Crisis

The Names

von Don DeLillo • 1982

An American risk analyst in Athens traces a cult whose murders obey the alphabet.

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🧩 Postmodern Mystery 🔤 Alphabetical Murder 🔍 Cult Investigation

The Names

An American risk analyst in Athens traces a cult whose murders obey the alphabet.

von Don DeLillo 1982 339 Seiten

3.64

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🧩 Postmodern Mystery 🔤 Alphabetical Murder 🔍 Cult Investigation

Sokrates

von Paul Johnson • 2011

The original rulebreaker's guide to a meaningful life, from the man who died asking questions.

3.73

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🏛️ Greek Philosophy 🪞 Self-Examination 🛡️ Moral Courage

Sokrates

The original rulebreaker's guide to a meaningful life, from the man who died asking questions.

von Paul Johnson 2011 224 Seiten

3.73

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🏛️ Greek Philosophy 🪞 Self-Examination 🛡️ Moral Courage

Adults in the Room

von Yanis Varoufakis • 2017

Europe's unelected chiefs demanded Greece ignore its voters. One minister refused and kept a record.

4.31

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💸 Sovereign Debt 🇪🇺 European Integration 🗣️ Political Memoir

Adults in the Room

Europe's unelected chiefs demanded Greece ignore its voters. One minister refused and kept a record.

von Yanis Varoufakis 2017 561 Seiten

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💸 Sovereign Debt 🇪🇺 European Integration 🗣️ Political Memoir

Early Socratic Dialogues

von Plato

Virtue is knowledge, wickedness is ignorance, and Socrates proved that no one in Athens had either.

4.05

417

🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🏺 Greek Ethics 💬 Socratic Method

Early Socratic Dialogues

Virtue is knowledge, wickedness is ignorance, and Socrates proved that no one in Athens had either.

von Plato 399 Seiten

4.05

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🏺 Greek Ethics 💬 Socratic Method

Decoding the Heavens

von Jo Marchant • 2009

Sponge divers pulled a 2,000-year-old computer from the sea. Decoding its gears took a century.

4.10

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🏛️ Ancient Technology 🔍 Archaeological Mysteries 🌌 History Of Astronomy

Decoding the Heavens

Sponge divers pulled a 2,000-year-old computer from the sea. Decoding its gears took a century.

von Jo Marchant 2009 336 Seiten

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🏛️ Ancient Technology 🔍 Archaeological Mysteries 🌌 History Of Astronomy

The Good Book

von A.C. Grayling • 2011

King Croesus asked a philosopher who was the happiest man alive. The answer destroyed him.

3.71

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📜 Ancient History 🦁 Persian Empire ⚔️ Greek-Persian Wars

The Good Book

King Croesus asked a philosopher who was the happiest man alive. The answer destroyed him.

von A.C. Grayling 2011 597 Seiten

3.71

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📜 Ancient History 🦁 Persian Empire ⚔️ Greek-Persian Wars

Greek to Me

von Mary Norris • 2019

One copy editor's love affair with Greek: ancient ruins, Aegean swims, and a nation in turmoil.

3.63

2.000+

🏛️ Greek Language ✈️ Travel Memoir 📖 Language Obsession

Greek to Me

One copy editor's love affair with Greek: ancient ruins, Aegean swims, and a nation in turmoil.

von Mary Norris 2019 240 Seiten

3.63

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🏛️ Greek Language ✈️ Travel Memoir 📖 Language Obsession

Das große Buch der griechischen Mythologie

von Richard Buxton • 2004

No fixed canon: Greek myths formed a fluid system of gods, heroes, and rituals, endlessly reshaped.

4.23

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🏛️ Greek Mythology 🔮 Myth And Ritual 📜 Classical Studies

Das große Buch der griechischen Mythologie

No fixed canon: Greek myths formed a fluid system of gods, heroes, and rituals, endlessly reshaped.

von Richard Buxton 2004 256 Seiten

4.23

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🏛️ Greek Mythology 🔮 Myth And Ritual 📜 Classical Studies

Travels with Epicurus

von Daniel Klein • 2012

On a Greek island, one man discovers that Epicurus had old age figured out.

3.82

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🧓 Philosophy Of Aging 🏛️ Epicurean Philosophy 🌿 Aging With Intention

Travels with Epicurus

On a Greek island, one man discovers that Epicurus had old age figured out.

von Daniel Klein 2012 115 Seiten

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🧓 Philosophy Of Aging 🏛️ Epicurean Philosophy 🌿 Aging With Intention

History of the Peloponnesian War

von Thucydides

Athens rose, Sparta panicked, and a 27-year catastrophe was the only outcome.

3.95

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🏛️ Ancient Greece ⚔️ Military History 🦅 Power Politics

History of the Peloponnesian War

Athens rose, Sparta panicked, and a 27-year catastrophe was the only outcome.

von Thucydides 648 Seiten

3.95

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🏛️ Ancient Greece ⚔️ Military History 🦅 Power Politics

The Trojan Women

von Euripides • 2006

Hektor's last hope arrives too late: a Thracian king whom Athena has already marked for death.

3.89

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🏛️ Trojan War 🎭 Greek Tragedy ⚡ Divine Manipulation

The Trojan Women

Hektor's last hope arrives too late: a Thracian king whom Athena has already marked for death.

von Euripides 2006 80 Seiten

3.89

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🏛️ Trojan War 🎭 Greek Tragedy ⚡ Divine Manipulation

Conversations of Socrates

von Xenophon

The Socrates who masters desire, runs a household, and believes the gods care about virtue

4.04

3.000+

🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🗣️ Socratic Dialogues 🧘 Self-Mastery

Conversations of Socrates

The Socrates who masters desire, runs a household, and believes the gods care about virtue

von Xenophon 366 Seiten

4.04

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🗣️ Socratic Dialogues 🧘 Self-Mastery

Corelli’s Mandolin

von Louis de Bernières • 1995

Pelagia's love for an Italian captain survives war, massacre, and decades of separation.

4.04

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❤️ Enemies To Lovers 🎖️ Wartime Romance 🏝️ Greek Island Setting

Corelli’s Mandolin

Pelagia's love for an Italian captain survives war, massacre, and decades of separation.

von Louis de Bernières 1995 437 Seiten

4.04

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❤️ Enemies To Lovers 🎖️ Wartime Romance 🏝️ Greek Island Setting

Enemigos de Esparta

von Sebastián Roa • 2018

His lover enslaved, a half-Greek mercenary fights Thebes's war against Sparta to bring her home.

4.27

185

🏛️ Ancient Greek Warfare 🏺 Classical Antiquity 💔 Forbidden Love

Enemigos de Esparta

His lover enslaved, a half-Greek mercenary fights Thebes's war against Sparta to bring her home.

von Sebastián Roa 2018 592 Seiten

4.27

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🏛️ Ancient Greek Warfare 🏺 Classical Antiquity 💔 Forbidden Love

Pyrrhonism

von Adrian Kuzminski • 2008

Ancient Greece had its own Buddhism: suspending belief for tranquility, not skepticism.

4.01

🏛️ Ancient Philosophy ☸️ Comparative Religion 🏺 Hellenistic Thought

Pyrrhonism

Ancient Greece had its own Buddhism: suspending belief for tranquility, not skepticism.

von Adrian Kuzminski 2008 170 Seiten

4.01

70 Bewertungen

🏛️ Ancient Philosophy ☸️ Comparative Religion 🏺 Hellenistic Thought

The Battle of Salamis

von Barry S. Strauss • 2004

One lie trapped Persia's 1300 ships in a narrow strait, and Western civilization survived.

4.10

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 👑 Persian Empire ⚔️ Greco-Persian Wars

The Battle of Salamis

One lie trapped Persia's 1300 ships in a narrow strait, and Western civilization survived.

von Barry S. Strauss 2004 294 Seiten

4.10

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 👑 Persian Empire ⚔️ Greco-Persian Wars

The Penguin Book of Classical Myths by Jenny March

von Jennifer R. March • 2008

Your single-volume guide to every Greek myth that shaped Western imagination, from Chaos to Rome.

4.10

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🏛️ Greek Mythology 📚 Myth Compendiums 📜 Classical Sources

The Penguin Book of Classical Myths by Jenny March

Your single-volume guide to every Greek myth that shaped Western imagination, from Chaos to Rome.

von Jennifer R. March 2008

4.10

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🏛️ Greek Mythology 📚 Myth Compendiums 📜 Classical Sources

The Peloponnesian War

von Donald Kagan • 2003

Fear of a rising rival ignited a 27-year war. Its shape still governs great-power conflict today.

4.13

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🏛️ Ancient Greece ⚔️ Military Strategy ⛵ Naval Warfare

The Peloponnesian War

Fear of a rising rival ignited a 27-year war. Its shape still governs great-power conflict today.

von Donald Kagan 2003 511 Seiten

4.13

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🏛️ Ancient Greece ⚔️ Military Strategy ⛵ Naval Warfare

A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives

von David Stuttard • 2014

From Homer to Plutarch, fifty Greek lives reveal a civilization built on myth, war, and reinvention.

3.82

233

🏛️ Greek City-States 👤 Biographical History 📜 Myth And History

A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives

From Homer to Plutarch, fifty Greek lives reveal a civilization built on myth, war, and reinvention.

von David Stuttard 2014 288 Seiten

3.82

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🏛️ Greek City-States 👤 Biographical History 📜 Myth And History

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea

von Thomas Cahill • 2004

Greek soldiers, poets, thinkers assembled the Western mind. Their answers remain our questions.

3.75

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 🌍 Western Civilization 📜 Epic Poetry

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea

Greek soldiers, poets, thinkers assembled the Western mind. Their answers remain our questions.

von Thomas Cahill 2004 304 Seiten

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 🌍 Western Civilization 📜 Epic Poetry

Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens

von Josiah Ober • 1989

An ancient democracy defied the drift toward oligarchy. The secret was rhetoric, not rules.

3.71

🏛️ Ancient Democracy 🗣️ Rhetoric And Politics 🗳️ Direct Democracy

Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens

An ancient democracy defied the drift toward oligarchy. The secret was rhetoric, not rules.

von Josiah Ober 1989 408 Seiten

3.71

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🏛️ Ancient Democracy 🗣️ Rhetoric And Politics 🗳️ Direct Democracy

Democracy

von Paul Cartledge • 2016

Ancient democracy meant the poor ruled directly. Modern democracy was built to stop that.

3.80

215

🏛️ Athenian Democracy 🗳️ Direct Democracy 🏢 Representative Government

Democracy

Ancient democracy meant the poor ruled directly. Modern democracy was built to stop that.

von Paul Cartledge 2016 416 Seiten

3.80

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🏛️ Athenian Democracy 🗳️ Direct Democracy 🏢 Representative Government

Lords of the Sea

von John R. Hale • 2009

The oar built Athenian democracy. Two centuries later, a lost fleet destroyed it.

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🏛️ Classical Athens 🏺 Athenian Empire 🚢 Maritime Empire

Lords of the Sea

The oar built Athenian democracy. Two centuries later, a lost fleet destroyed it.

von John R. Hale 2009 395 Seiten

4.18

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🏛️ Classical Athens 🏺 Athenian Empire 🚢 Maritime Empire

The Return of Ulysses

von Edith Hall • 2008

Every age rewrites the Odyssey, turning monsters into victims and heroes into questions.

3.75

📜 Classical Reception ⚡ Myth And Modernity 🏠 Exile And Homecoming

The Return of Ulysses

Every age rewrites the Odyssey, turning monsters into victims and heroes into questions.

von Edith Hall 2008 304 Seiten

3.75

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📜 Classical Reception ⚡ Myth And Modernity 🏠 Exile And Homecoming

From Democrats to Kings

von Michael Scott • 2009

How a brutal, forgotten century of war turned democracies into kingdoms and gave us Alexander.

3.83

249

🏛️ Ancient Greece ⏳ Fourth Century Bc 🗳️ City State Politics

From Democrats to Kings

How a brutal, forgotten century of war turned democracies into kingdoms and gave us Alexander.

von Michael Scott 2009 294 Seiten

3.83

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🏛️ Ancient Greece ⏳ Fourth Century Bc 🗳️ City State Politics

Alexander the Great

von Paul Cartledge • 2004

Five ancient sources describe how Alexander's historian died. They all say something different.

3.70

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🏛️ Classical Antiquity 🎖️ Military Biography ⚔️ Ancient Warfare

Alexander the Great

Five ancient sources describe how Alexander's historian died. They all say something different.

von Paul Cartledge 2004 368 Seiten

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🏛️ Classical Antiquity 🎖️ Military Biography ⚔️ Ancient Warfare

Eureka!

von Peter V. Jones • 2014

Never a nation, always a competition. The story of ancient Greece that skips the boring parts.

3.53

445

🏛️ Ancient Greece 📚 Popular History ⚡ Greek Mythology

Eureka!

Never a nation, always a competition. The story of ancient Greece that skips the boring parts.

von Peter V. Jones 2014 372 Seiten

3.53

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 📚 Popular History ⚡ Greek Mythology

Athens on Trial

von Jennifer T. Roberts • 1994

Ancient Athens was the West's cautionary tale against democracy for two millennia. What changed?

3.60

📚 Intellectual History 🏛️ Classical Reception 🗳️ Athenian Democracy

Athens on Trial

Ancient Athens was the West's cautionary tale against democracy for two millennia. What changed?

von Jennifer T. Roberts 1994 432 Seiten

3.60

10 Bewertungen

📚 Intellectual History 🏛️ Classical Reception 🗳️ Athenian Democracy

Among the Lemon Trees

von Nadia Marks • 2017

Betrayed, Anna escapes to a Greek island where hidden letters expose her family's forbidden love.

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🏠 Multigenerational Saga 📜 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love Affair

Among the Lemon Trees

Betrayed, Anna escapes to a Greek island where hidden letters expose her family's forbidden love.

von Nadia Marks 2017 369 Seiten

3.71

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🏠 Multigenerational Saga 📜 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love Affair

A Greek Island Gift

von Mandy Baggot • 2025

A broke founder inherits a stranger's Corfu estate. Her co-heir wants her off his island.

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🌞 Sun-Drenched Romance 📜 Unexpected Inheritance 💕 Enemies To Lovers

A Greek Island Gift

A broke founder inherits a stranger's Corfu estate. Her co-heir wants her off his island.

von Mandy Baggot 2025 362 Seiten

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🌞 Sun-Drenched Romance 📜 Unexpected Inheritance 💕 Enemies To Lovers

The Last Song of Penelope

von Claire North • 2024

Penelope ruled Ithaca in secret for twenty years. Odysseus returns with blood on his mind.

4.29

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🏺 Mythological Retelling 🏛️ Ancient Greece 👁️ Divine Narrator

The Last Song of Penelope

Penelope ruled Ithaca in secret for twenty years. Odysseus returns with blood on his mind.

von Claire North 2024 464 Seiten

4.29

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🏺 Mythological Retelling 🏛️ Ancient Greece 👁️ Divine Narrator

The Greeks and the Irrational

von E.R. Dodds • 1951

How a culture that invented reason was also governed by divine madness, ritual guilt, and astrology.

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🏛️ Ancient Greek Thought 🌀 History Of Unreason 😳 Shame And Guilt

The Greeks and the Irrational

How a culture that invented reason was also governed by divine madness, ritual guilt, and astrology.

von E.R. Dodds 1951 327 Seiten

4.20

1.000+ Bewertungen

🏛️ Ancient Greek Thought 🌀 History Of Unreason 😳 Shame And Guilt

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