Books by Robert Garland

The legends of early Rome are among the most memorable of any in the world. They are also highly instructive. They taught generations of Romans about duty and obedience. Duty and obedience might not seem to amount to much these days, but it was precisely these virtues that made Rome great.

A unique re-telling of the Greek myths.

The Piraeus was one of the largest and most impressive ancient ports in the Mediterranean. This text relates its history, treating the port as an integral yet idiosyncratic component of Attika - one which exercised a decisive influence on Athenian history.

"Surviving Greek Tragedy" is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

concise introduction to Greek religion.