Ancient
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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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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
$22.99 Add to cartWas the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians i… [more below]
- Author: Ward-Perkins, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0192807285
- Language: English
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The Kings of Israel and Judah: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Jewish Kingdom of David and Solomon, the Divided Monarchy, and the Assyrian and Bab
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the kings of Israel and Judah, then keep reading…
The history of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah and their kings is a story of epic heroes
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481716
- Language: English
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How to Think about God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers
$18.95 Add to cartA vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero’s influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divine
Most ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods–from Jupite- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0691183651
- 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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Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book, Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle’s scientific researches, his discove… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #32
- Author: Barnes, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854089
- Language: English
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
$22.00 Add to cartThe first full-scale history of Hannibal’s Carthage in decades and “a convincing and enthralling narrative.” (The Economist )
Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master- Author: Miles, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121294
- Language: English
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The Age of Alexander
$18.00 Add to cartPlutarch’s influential writings on the ancient world
Plutarch’s parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by countless writers s… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0140449353
- Language: English
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Sacred Nile
$50.00 Add to cartSacred Nile is the story of our collective spiritual imagination and practice. Chester Higgins celebrates the agency of people of African descent and their influence on the foundation of Western relig… [more below]
- Author: Higgins, Chester
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0578851180
- Language: English
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Mesopotamia: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Mesopotamian History and Civilizations, Including the Sumerians and Sumerian Mythology,
$43.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the remarkable history of Mesopotamia, then keep reading…
Seven captivating manuscripts in one book:
- Sumerians: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Sumerian History, Sumerian Myt
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481791
- Language: English
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Cinematic Storytelling
$30.95 Add to cartWhat the industry’s most succcessful writers and directors have in common is that they have mastered the cinematic conventions specific to the medium.
- Author: Van Sijll, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 193290705X
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Gaul
$12.00 Read moreBetween 58 and 50 BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns. Caesar’s narrative offers insight… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 1983
- ISBN10: 0140444335
- 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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End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome
$26.99 Add to cartHistory remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his path. Following Attila and the Huns from the steppes
- Author: Kelly, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: June 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338495
- Language: English
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The Ancient Celts
$34.99 Add to cartFierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. F… [more below]
- Author: Cunliffe, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0198752938
- Language: English
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Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
$49.92 Add to cartA riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire
At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new c- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0691153434
- 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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Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
$26.95 Add to cartWorshipped for over three-fifths of recorded history, Egypt’s gods and goddesses are among the most fascinating of human civilization. The lives of pharaohs and commoners alike were dominated by the n
- Author: Wilkinson, Richard H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0500284245
- Language: English
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics
$11.95 Read moreClear, easy-to-follow text tells absolute beginners how to transcribe hieroglyphs by presenting and explaining 134 phonetic elements. Included are an explanatory introduction, section on word analysis… [more below]
- Series: Egypt
- Author: Rossini, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0486260135
- Language: English
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Leucippe and Clitophon
$13.95 Add to cartAchilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqu? of the five “Greek novels” of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tatius, Achilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555478
- Language: English
