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Dalby, Andrew, Siren Feasts, A Hisotry of Food and Gastronomy in Greece. cheese, wine, honey and olive oil--four of Greece's most familiar contributions to culinary culture--were already well known four thousand years ago. Siren Feasts traces the unbroken tradition of Greek cuisine from prehistoric times right to the present day. Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated, it is invaluable and engaging reading for al students and teachers of Greek history, and anyone who is interested in the gastronomic tradition of Greece. Andrew Dalby trained as a classicist and linguist and is now Librarian of the London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates. He is the winner of the 1996 Sophie Coe Prize in Food History.
D'Andrea, Jeanne, Ancient Herbs In the J. Paul Getty Museum Gardens. Herbs in antiquity touch on so many aspects of human activity that the advice of classicists, botanists, horticulturalists, linguists, medical historians, physicians, and sociologists has been essential in compiling this volume. In ancient Greece, herbs were eaten, imbibed, and applied to wounds. Olive, laurel, parsley, and pine were bound into wreaths to crown the winners of the Greek games. Fragrant herbs honored the gods, embalmed the dead, and purified disease-ridden rooms. hundreds of medicinal herbs were used and catalogued by Greek gods, the whims and wisdom of emperors, and the innovations of physicians and philosophers.
Davidson, James, Courtesans & Fishcakes, The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens. "James Davidson celebrates the very process by which his history is constructed. ... It is all done with a seductively light touch and a clever sense of self-irony. ... It pays off brilliantly, gradually drawing the reader into the complex social, cultural and political coding of Athenian eating habits--and showing how important those habits were. There could be no better 'popular history' than this."
                                                                 --Los Angles Times Book Review
"This fact-filled, exhilarating book might be viewed as the third part of a trilogy, the first two volumes of which are Nietsche's The Birth of Tragedy and E. R. Dodds's The Greeks and the Irrational."
                                                                   --Washington Post Book World
de Coulanges, Fustel, The Ancient City. A Classic Study of the Religious and Civil Institutions of Ancient Greece and Rome. The Ancient City describes the society of the cities of Greece and Rome in the earliest stages of their history. It is a description which will be strange to many readers, for it more closely resembles the descriptions of those primitive communities that have become familiar to us from the writing of anthropologists, than it does the classic world we know from painting and literature. Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889) shows that religion was the basis of the civic life of these people--a religion of only dimly understood rites which dominated every aspect of life, every moment of the day, and which was reflected throughout ancient literature--though until this book was written, many of the references to this ancient religion had ben either ignored or misunderstood.

Demakopoulou, Katie and Dora Konsola, Archaeological Museum of Thebes, Guide. The Guide contains a description of antiquities exhibited in the rooms and courtyard of the Museum, and a brief historical survey of ancient Boeotia. Also has a separate chapter on the topography and monuments of Thebes in the Mycenaean period, the most splendid epoch in the city's long history. The remains and finds from the Mycenaean period are of the greatest importance, but the archaeology has not yet produced a comprehensible picture, because the ancient ruins are buried under the centre of the modern town. (This book is apparently not available. But check abebooks.com.)
Davenport, Guy, 7 Greeks. Here is a colorful variety of works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth to the third centuries BC. Salvaged from Shattered pottery vases and tattered scrolls of papyrus, everything decipherable from the remains of these ancient authors is assembled here. From early to late, the collection contains: Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman, Anakreon, Herakleitos, Diogenes, and Herondas. This composite of fragments translated by Guy Davenport is the most complete collection of its kind ever to appear in one volume. "If you don't read Greek, read Davenport; if you do, read Davenport and learn to read Greek better."   --D. S. Carne-Ross
Davis, William Stearns, A Day in Old Athens, A Picture of Athenian Life. From the Preface: This little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens, if by some legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance. the year 360 B.C. has been selected for the hypothetical time of this visit, not because of any special virtue in that date, but because Athens was then architecturally almost perfect, her civic and her social life seemed at their best, the democratic constitution held its vigor, and there were few outward signs of the general decadence which has to set in after the triumph of Macedon.
Demand, Nancy, Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece. Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant early childbearing, that were known to be dangerous for both mother and child? What were the actual causes of death among women described as dying of childbirth in the Hippocratic Epidemics? Why did families choose to portray labor scenes on tombstones when the Greek commemorative tradition otherwise avoided reference to suffering and illness? In birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, Nancy Demand offers the first comprehensive exploration of the social and cultural construction of childbirth in ancient Greece.
  Dinisen, Isaak, Out of Africa. One of the great figures  in twentieth century literature is Isak Dinesen (the pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen). At the age of twenty-seven, she left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. Together they bought a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in Kenya. For the next seventeen years she managed the plantation, even after she and her husband separated, and she recorded the experience in two memorable books, Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass, Both of which are filled with her affection for and understanding of the land and its people.
Diodorus of Sicily, Library of History, with an English tr. by C. H. Oldfather. (12 Volumes) Diodorus 'Siculus', Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, c. 80-20 BC, wrote these 40 books of world history in three parts--mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to 54 BC. Of this we have Books I-V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks); Books XI-XX (Greek history 480 BC-302 BC); and fragments of the rest. He was a uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduced them faithfully. He is valuable for details unrecorded elsewhere, and as evidence for works now lost, especially writings of Ephorus, Apollodorus, Agartharchides, Philistus, and Timaeus.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The Idiot. The theme which obsessed Dostoyevsky during his entire creative life found its fullest expression in his novel, The Idiot. In it he realized, as no psychologist or novelist has before or since, that strange admixture of exaltation and degradation, the virtues of the saint and the defects of the simpleton, to be found in an individual soul.  The conflict created by man's divine possibilities thwarted by his all-too-human limitations commands the breathless interest of readers of every possible taste and temperament. The Idiot is one of Dostoyevsky's most penetrating psychological novels. I used isolated paragraphs of this novel relating to epilepsy as an influence for passages in my novel, The Mysteries.
  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The Possessed. Dostoevsky's great political-philosophical novel, has been called a prophetic vision of the Russian Revolution. Based on a sensational murder case in 1869, in which a radical political group had ordered the execution of one of its former members. The Possessed was Dostoevsky's answer to the socialistic and nihilistic tendencies of his day. Four years of imprisonment had turned him from insurgence to orthodoxy, and throughout this monumental novel there is the expression of a strong nationalistic faith in the messianic role of the Russian people and a conviction that Christian love will solve the problems of mankind. 
Dothan Trude and Moshe Dothan, People of the Sea, The Search for the Philistines. The Philistines are among the most maligned peoples of ancient history. The Bible characterized them as cunning pagan warmongers, the ancient Egyptians as pirates and marauders. In today's language, a "philistine" is an uncouth, uncultured person. Thanks to the work of Trude Dothan and Moshe Dothan, three thousand years of bad press are at last giving way to a wholly different picture of the Philistines. Through their excavations and other studies, these two eminent archaeologists have unearthed startling answers to some of the great mysteries of biblical history, revealing the Philistines as a highly civilized people. In People of the Sea, the world's preeminent authorities on Philistine history and culture provide the first popular account of their ground-breaking work.
Doumas, Christos, Santorini, A Guide to the Island and Its Archaeological Treasures. The island of Santorini casts a magic spell on those who visit it whatever their interests or preferences may be. The specialized geologist will find in the walls of the cauldera a unique stratigraphical museum of volcanic provenance. The vulcanologist and the curious find interest in the dormant volcano. The archaeologist, the archaeophile and art lovers in general cannot but admire the archaeological wealth of the island which spans virtually the entire cultural history of the Aegean. The nature lover, finally, will take pleasure in the dramatic landscape and picturesque bays.
Dowden, Ken, Death and the Maiden, Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology. This book explores the many cult practices for a maiden's transformation to womanhood. The author writes: "Megarian maidens must seek out the tomb of Iphinoë, about whom we know only two facts: (a) she died whilst still a maiden; (b) she is the daughter of founding father Alkathoös. These details suffice. The Megarian girls lay down their parthenia, their maidenhood, at the tomb of the dead maiden; and the dead maiden, being daughter of the original, primeval king, is the community's prototype. The tomb of the maiden is not only an ideal place at which to mark the ending of maidenhood; it is, in fact, its central, organic purpose, its raison d'être.