Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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Rome’s Italian Wars: Books 6-10
$14.95 Add to cart“People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe.”
Here is a superb new translation of Books 6 to 10 of Livy’s monumental history o- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Livy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 019956485X
- Language: English
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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives
$17.95 Add to cart“Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.” Hugh Latimer’s famous words of consolation … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Foxe, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199236844
- Language: English
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A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire
$23.99 Add to cartWeird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it re… [more below]
- Author: Kaldellis, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0190625945
- Language: English
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The Cities That Built the Bible
$22.99 Add to cartFor many, the names Bethlehem, Babylon, and Jerusalem are known as the setting for epic stories from the Bible featuring rustic mangers, soaring towers, and wooden crosses. What often gets missed is t
- Author: Cargill, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0062366769
- Language: English
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully bl
- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0062228862
- Language: English
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Antigone: A New Translation
$12.99 Add to cartThe most celebrated plays of ancient Athens–Sophocles’s seven surviving works–in vivid and dynamic new translations. ANTIGONE, translated by award-winning poet Robert Bagg, is one of seven plays Har
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0062132121
- Language: English
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A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
$19.99 Add to cartThe word “German” was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two thousand years later, the richness and complexity of Ge
- Author: Ozment, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0060934832
- Language: English
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The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene, the Companion of Jesus
$15.99 Add to cartMary Magdalene, Jesus’s Closest Disciple
Marvin Meyer, one of the foremost scholars of the Gnostic Gospels:
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translates and introduces the Gnostic and New Testament texts that together reveal the story
- Author: Meyer, Marvin W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 14 2006
- ISBN10: 006083451X
- Language: English
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Mythology of Mesopotamia: Fascinating Insights, Myths, Stories & History From The World’s Most Ancient Civilization. Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylon
$19.99 Add to cartEmpires rose and fell along the banks of the Tigris & Euphrates, whilst a civilization as yet unsurpassed emerged…
Discover Myths, History & More From The World’s Most Ancient Civilization!
Mesopotam
- Author: Brought Alive, History
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 191431218X
- Language: English
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Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living in
$16.95 Add to cartPractical answers to the urgent moral questions of our time from the ancient philosophy of Stoicism
Twenty-three centuries ago, in a marketplace in Athens, Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, bu… [more below]- Author: Whiting, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1608686930
- Language: English
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Assyrian History: A Captivating Guide to the Assyrians and Their Powerful Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia
$29.99 Add to cartExplore the Captivating History of the Assyrian Empire
Located in modern-day Iraq, ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the great Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is where it all began. It’s the part of t
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647483247
- Language: English
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Ukiyo-E: The Art of the Japanese Print
$34.95 Add to cartThe art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”), reflects the rich history and way of life in Japan hundreds of years ago. Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese … [more below]
- Author: Harris, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 10 2011
- ISBN10: 4805310987
- Language: English
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Ages in Chaos III: Peoples of the Sea
$39.99 Add to cartThe book “Peoples of the Sea” consists of three independent parts, each of which contributes to making this the most important volume of the Ages in Chaos series. With respect to its original publicat
- Series: Ages in Chaos #3
- Author: Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1906833559
- Language: English
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Hannibal
$19.99 Add to cartHannibal is “an exciting biography of one of history’s greatest commanders…a thrilling page-turner” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps wit… [more below]
- Author: Hunt, Patrick N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 143910218X
- Language: English
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The Spartacus War
$17.99 Add to cartAn authoritative account from an expert author: The Spartacus War is the first popular history of the revolt in English.
The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most famous slave rebellio- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1416532064
- Language: English
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Fame
$25.00 Add to cartFAME is a book about human affection and disaffection and the unique narrative which presents this perpetual movement. The poems come from India, Greece, the Windward Islands, and New England, places … [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1955194122
- Language: English
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Before War: On Marriage, Hierarchy, and Our Matriarchal Origins
$27.00 Add to cartThe book Before War will change how its readers look at the world — by exposing the female roots of Western civilization. It draws on the evidence from anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, primato
- Author: Daeva, Elisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: May 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218214142
- Language: English
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Reminiscences of a Student’s Life
$18.00 Add to cartThe arch, witty, outspoken memoirs of the pioneering archaeologist and scholar Mary Beard has called “my hero.”
First published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1925, Jane Ellen Harrison’s Reminiscenc- Author: Harrison, Jane Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1961341999
- Language: English
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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: A Captivating Guide to the Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus, M
$24.99 Add to cartYou probably have heard of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. But how much do you really know about?
The ancient world was home to some of the greatest civilizations in history. The Egyptians, the
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168640
- Language: English
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The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library: An Anthology of Ancient Writings Which Relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean Philosophy
$32.95 Add to cartThis anthology, the largest collection of Pythagorean writings ever to appear in English, contains the four ancient biographies of Pythagoras and over 25 Pythagorean and Neopythagorean writings from t… [more below]
- Author: Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: July 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0933999518
- Language: English
