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Sparta and the Commemoration of War
$63.75 Add to cartThe tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus inspi… [more below]
- Author: Sears, Matthew A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1316519457
- Language: English
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Greek Mythology for Teens: Enthralling Tales and Myths from Ancient Greece
$26.99 Add to cartDid you know that Zeus was considered to be both the youngest and the oldest brother?
Thanks to their enthralling narratives and relatable characters, Greek myths have captured our imagination for mill
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651859
- Language: English
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Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
$17.99 Add to cartThe ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified soc
- Author: Hall, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351165
- Language: English
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The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories
$25.95 Add to cartWho was Pandora and what was in her famous box? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What exactly is a Titan? And why is one computer virus known as a Trojan horse?
The myths of ancient Greece and … [more below]
- Series: Myths
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0500251738
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
$19.95 Read moreA major new history of classical Greece–how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from it
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. T- Series: Princeton History of the Ancient World #1
- Author: Ober, Josiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 691173141
- Language: English
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Greek Mythology: A Complete Guide to Greek Mythology, Greek Gods, and Ancient Greece
$14.99 Add to cartGREEK MYTHOLOGY
If you want to enter the world of Greek mythology and to learn about its heroes and villains, this book has all of it in store for you
This book covers a wide variety of the fam
- Author: Walsh, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1761035991
- Language: English
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
$21.00 Add to cartWritten four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author’s ambitious clai… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Thucydides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 30 1954
- ISBN10: 0140440399
- Language: English
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The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika
$36.00 Add to cartFrom the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and … [more below]
- Series: Landmark Books
- Author: Strassler, Robert B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 1400034760
- Language: English
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Greek Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
$14.99 Read moreA striking companion volume to Greek Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Ancient Greek culture, from its tribal beginnings to its foundational impact on modern life.
Gorgeous Collector- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Powell, Lindsay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1804175773
- Language: English
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Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek culture. Cartledge highlights the ro… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0199601348
- Language: English
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The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
$22.95 Add to cartThe first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories–from myths and fairy tales to jokes
Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex,- Author: Hansen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0691195927
- Language: English
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Ages in Chaos IV: The Dark Age of Greece
$33.99 Add to cartThe Dark Age of Greece is the latest entry in the Ages in Chaos series first put forth by the late Immanuel Velikovsky in 1952; and is one more key brick in the reconstruction of ancient history propo
- Series: Ages in Chaos #IV
- Author: Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 530
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1906833192
- Language: English
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By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
$24.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he i… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Worthington, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190614641
- Language: English
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The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom
$18.99 Add to cartFrom classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes–and the saga … [more below]
- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1501198025
- Language: English
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Xenophon’s Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War
$19.99 Add to cartCyrus, a great Persian leader, was so widely and memorably respected that a hundred years later, Xenophon of Athens wrote this admiring book about the greatest leader of his era. Larry Hedrick’s Intro
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0312364695
- Language: English
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The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander
$35.00 Add to cartArrian’s Campaigns of Alexander, widely considered the most authoritative history of the brilliant leader’s great conquests, is the latest addition to the acclaimed Landmark series.
After twelve years- Series: Landmark (Anchor Books)
- Author: Arrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1400079675
- Language: English
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What the Greeks Did for Us
$30.00 Read moreAn enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like- Author: Spawforth, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 030025802X
- Language: English
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Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities
$19.95 Add to cartA treasury of astonishing mythic marvels–and the surprising truths behind them
Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowled- Author: Mayor, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691211183
- Language: English
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Athens: City of Wisdom
$21.95 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.
Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis s- Author: Clark, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363645
- Language: English
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World
$19.95 Add to cartA gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war
Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-- Author: Mayor, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691211086
- Language: English
