Ancient - Greece
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The Expedition of Cyrus
$14.95 Add to cartThe Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the epic march of the Ten Thousand, an army recruited at the end of the fifth century BC by a young Persian prince, Cyrus, who rose in revolt agains his brot… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555982
- Language: English
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Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World
$26.60 Add to cartA comprehensive narrative history of the ancient world’s center, from its founding to its modern rediscovery
The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the “omphalos”–th- Author: Scott, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169845
- Language: English
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Classical Mythology of the Constellations: Timeless Tales of the Starry Night Sky
$30.00 Add to cartA retelling of the classic myths and timeless tales by bestselling author Annette Giesecke that underlie the 88 named constellations in the night sky–from Andromeda to Orion to Ursa Major.
Classical- Author: Giesecke, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0762488514
- Language: English
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Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
$31.99 Add to cartPlato is one of history’s most influential thinkers, the “sublime philosopher” whose writings remain foundational to Western culture. He is known for the brilliant dialogues in which he depicted his t
- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324093188
- Language: English
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Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome
$24.00 Add to cartOccasionally scandalous and always fascinating, a cornucopia of surprising and little-told yarns from the classical world.
Both humorous and shocking, Miracula is filled with astonishing facts and st- Author: Chrystal, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390491
- Language: English
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Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science
$22.50 Read moreA bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician’s singular life as a truly modern scientist.
Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him: Archimedes of Syracuse–an engineer who single-handedly de- Series: Great Lives of the Ancient World
- Author: Nicastro, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1789149223
- Language: English
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Ghost on the Throne: Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
$21.00 Read moreWhen Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs–a m
- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0307456609
- Language: English
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Myths, Muses and Mortals: The Way of Life in Ancient Greece
$35.00 Add to cartA window into the human lives of classical Greece through the words they left behind.
Myths, Muses and Mortals gives new insight into a multitude of life experiences in ancient Greece. The book introd- Author: Furley, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1789149177
- Language: English
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Ancient Greece: The Definitive Visual History
$50.00 Add to cartEmbark upon a lavish visual journey through ancient Greece–its origins, its rise and fall, and its legacy that still permeates the Western world today.
Spanning more than 3,000 years, Ancient Greece- Series: DK Classic History
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593961595
- Language: English
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Plato: A Civic Life
$22.50 Add to cartA new reading of Plato’s philosophy that reveals it as deeply shaped by his experiences in Athens.
Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experie- Series: Great Lives of the Ancient World
- Author: Atack, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1789149460
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives: Theseus, Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Lysander, with Excerpt
$22.00 Add to cart- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0140449051
- Language: English
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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
$20.00 Read moreNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.
What is the nature of things?
What is justice? How can I be myself?
How should we treat each o- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338166
- Language: English
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The Hellenistic Age: A Short History
$20.00 Add to cartThe Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity’s great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green’s remarkably far-ranging stu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Green, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0812967402
- Language: English
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The Histories
$10.95 Add to cart“The father of history,” as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535663
- Language: English
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The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of Myth
$24.99 Read moreCompelling evidence that the events of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean
– Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to an- Author: Vinci, Felice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1594770522
- Language: English
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Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
$20.00 Read more“Mr. Cartledge’s command of the historical material is effortless and exhaustive, and his appreciation of Thebes is persuasive.” —Wall Street Journal
“An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1419758551
- Language: English
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The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
$35.00 Read moreA preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine.
Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth cent… [more below]- Author: Fox, Robin Lane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0465093442
- Language: English
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Cities That Shaped the Ancient World
$16.95 Read moreThe cities of the ancient world built the foundations for modern urban life, their innovations in architecture and politics essential to cities as we know them today. But what was it like to live in B
- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0500293406
- Language: English
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilization
$25.00 Add to cartA magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian
- Author: Everitt, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0812984986
- Language: English
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The Story of Greece and Rome
$16.00 Read moreThe extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia, from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century
The magnificent civilization cr- Author: Spawforth, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300251645
- Language: English
