Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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Hanukkah in Eight Nights: Bring the Past to Light
$8.95 Add to cartCelebrate a family Hanukkah with dramatic readings about the feats of the Maccabees. In addition to the candle lighting blessings, Hanukkah songs, recipes and dreidel game rules, this book incudes exc… [more below]
- Author: Sofaer, Marian Scheuer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0977476804
- Language: English
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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
$24.95 Add to cartThe Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of “truth,” Aletheia, from mythoreligious to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Marcel Detienne’s starting point is a simple observation… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Vidal-Naquet, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 12 1999
- ISBN10: 0942299868
- Language: English
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Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman: Six Plays
$29.98 Add to cartRich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight – varied, stimulating, broad in its view and deep in its perceptions…exciting variety of translations…enlightening essays from some of the mos… [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Corrigan, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 936839856
- Language: English
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Josephus: The Essential Writings
$24.99 Add to cartAn award-winning translation and condensation of The Jewish Antiquities and The Jewish War of Josephus. The historical events take on a brilliant new dimension in this revised edition now with photogr… [more below]
- Author: Josephus, Flavius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 12 1990
- ISBN10: 0825429641
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar’s Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
$17.95 Add to cartStephen Dando-Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the Tenth Legion as he follows Caesar and his men along the blood-soaked fringes of the Empire. This unprecedented regimen… [more below]
- Author: Dando-Collins, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0471686131
- 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 Lantern Bearers
$13.99 Read moreRosemary Sutcliff’s The Lantern Bearers is the winner of the 1959 Carnegie Medal in Literature.
The last of the Roman army have set sail and left Britain forever, abandoning it to civil war and the th- Series: Roman Britain Trilogy #3
- Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0312644302
- Language: English
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Oresteia
$11.95 Add to cartThe Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy–the inexorable natur… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953781X
- Language: English
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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphas- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Annas, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0198805888
- Language: English
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Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun’s Dynasty
$35.00 Read moreA vivid story of an astonishing period in ancient Egypt’s history–1550 BC to 1295 BC–that tears away the gold and glamour to reveal how these great pharaohs ruthlessly ruled Egypt for two hundred an… [more below]
- Author: de Jes?s, Gerardo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363068
- Language: English
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A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
$18.95 Read moreFrom the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt’s ancient past took place in an
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882403
- Language: English
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Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
$19.99 Add to cart“Riveting. … Pattison’s uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. … In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers.” —New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
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- Author: Pattison, Kermit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0062410296
- Language: English
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20 Poemas de Amor Y Una Canción Desesperada
$9.95 Add to cartThis book, originally published in 1924, occupies a privileged place within the vast and always current work of Pablo Neruda. It is not only one of his most popular works, but also the one that best r… [more below]
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 6074003696
- Language: Spanish
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All’s Well That Ends Well
$9.99 Add to cartThe authoritative edition of All’s Well That Ends Well from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Shakespeare’s All’s Well Tha… [more below]
- Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1982164964
- Language: English
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Pyrrho’s Way: The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
$29.95 Add to cartIt is not events that disturb us, but what we believe about them.
In ancient Greece, a group of philosophers developed highly effective techniques to change our thoughts for the better, allowing practi
- Author: Bates, Douglas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1896559565
- Language: English
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The Republic
$7.99 Add to cartPackaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works. From the musings of intellectuals such as Thomas Paine in Common Sense to the striking personal… [more below]
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1945186275
- Language: English
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Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome’s Greatest Enemy
$42.95 Add to cartThe Romans’ destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal’s life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every in… [more below]
- Author: Gabriel, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1597976865
- Language: English
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The Thinking Root: The Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartAcclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and thin… [more below]
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Beachy-Quick, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1571315446
- Language: English
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From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics
$29.99 Add to cart“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.” –C. S. Lewis In From Achilles to Christ, Louis Markos introduces readers to the great narratives of classical mythology from a Christian p
- Author: Markos, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0830825932
- Language: English
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
$19.00 Add to cartThis Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne’s great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “The Extasie,” and “A Noctu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Donne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757341
- Language: English
