Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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Ancient Israel: An Enthralling Guide to Jewish Kingdoms and the Israelites
$26.99 Add to cartThe ancient Israelites introduced one of the first monotheistic religions in the world. And it is still practiced today!
The ancient Israelites emerged from Mount Sinai onto the hilly plains of Canaan
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887652313
- Language: English
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Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up Volume 71
$18.95 Add to cart“Superbly acute and unashamedly complex.”–The Telegraph
“Rich and provocative.”–Times Literary Supplement
“An engaging exploration.”–The New Yorker
“The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another c- Series: Sather Classical Lectures
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0520401492
- Language: English
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Unwrapping the Pharaohs: How Egyptian Archaeology Confirms the Biblical Timeline [With DVD]
$34.99 Read moreAdults and children alike have been fascinated with the Egyptian civilization for decades, but most modern archaeologists have lately tried to use Egyptian chronology to dispute the biblical record of
- Author: Ashton, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: October 18, 2006
- ISBN10: 0890514682
- Language: English
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Phaedrus: Letter to M. D’Alembert on the Theatre
$14.95 Add to cartWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato’s Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a pr
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801485320
- Language: English
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Aristotle: The Desire to Understand
$49.58 Add to cartThis is a philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself started. He introduces us to the essence of Aristotle’s philosophy and guides us through all the ce… [more below]
- Author: Lear, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: February 11 1988
- ISBN10: 0521347629
- Language: English
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The Book of the Sword: With 293 Illustrations
$19.95 Read more“The history of the sword is the history of humanity.” With these words, British author, Victorian scholar, and world traveler Richard Burton begins his eloquent and exceptionally erudite history of t
- Series: Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor
- Author: Burton, Sir Richard F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0486254348
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$62.99 Add to cartOvid’s epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s time to the present day, when wr… [more below]
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 597
- Publish Date: October 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393058107
- Language: English
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Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome
$21.99 Add to cartA stunning biography of history’s most infamous warlord, Attila the Hun
For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate of the Roman Empire and the future of all Europe in- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0312539398
- Language: English
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Heracles and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartEuripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555095
- Language: English
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The Plays and Fragments
$10.95 Add to cartThe greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Menander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954073X
- Language: English
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Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
$15.95 Add to cart“The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love.” So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard’s Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous narrator, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199214190
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the lar… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bowden, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0198706154
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King: Sophocles
$12.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New T… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: March 31 1988
- ISBN10: 0195054938
- Language: English
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Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author
$22.00 Add to cartThe complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian
“Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic claddi- Author: Helle, Sophus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276761
- Language: English
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Constantine the Emperor
$29.99 Add to cartNo Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along … [more below]
- Author: Potter, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190231629
- Language: English
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Utopia
$12.00 Add to cartA major new translation of Thomas More’s popular work of philosophical fiction
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in p- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0141442328
- Language: English
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Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
$21.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz explores the reality behind the bestselling fiction she writes (as Elizabeth Peters) and casts a dazzling light on a remarkable civilization.
Afascinating chro
- Author: Mertz, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0061252778
- Language: English
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Jesus: A New Vision
$29.95 Add to cartJesus: A New Vision is a completely new look at the life of Jesus, what happened after his crucifixion and how his story completely overturned the old pagan religion of the Roman empire and altered hi
- Author: Strieber, Whitley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1734202858
- Language: English
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The War for Gaul: A New Translation
$16.95 Add to cartA translation that captures the power of one of the greatest war stories ever told-Julius Caesar’s account of his brutal campaign to conquer Gaul
Imagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 069121669X
- Language: English
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Roman Emperors: A Captivating Guide to Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Constantine the Great, and Justinian I
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating lives of five Roman Emperors, then keep reading…
Five captivating manuscripts in one book:
- Augustus: A Captivating Guide to the First Emperor of Rome and How
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: April 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1647486823
- Language: English
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