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The Durrells of Corfu
$14.95 Add to cartThe Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first plac
- Author: Haag, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1781257884
- Language: English
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The Foods of the Greek Islands: Cooking and Culture at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean
$22.99 Read moreThe best-selling collection of simple, seasonal recipes for the foods of the Greek Islands from a Julia Child Award-winner, available for the first time in paperback.
In this book, called by Time “th- Author: Kremezi, Aglaia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0544465024
- Language: English
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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece
$40.99 Add to cart“We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life.” So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has some Athenians decla… [more below]
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 09 2018
- ISBN10: 019023430X
- Language: English
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Ancient Greece: An Enthralling Overview of Greek History, Starting from the Archaic Period through the Classical Age to the Hellenisti
$29.99 Add to cartDo you want to explore the energizing and stunning story of Ancient Greece? This history book will unpack the brilliant people, the astonishing wars, and the enchanting legacy of the ancient Greeks, f
- Author: History, Enthralling
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1956296131
- Language: English
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The Spartans
$15.99 Add to cartThe image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek l… [more below]
- Author: Bayliss, Andrew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0198853084
- Language: English
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A Normal Life: The Autobiography of Vassilis Palaiokostas
$25.00 Add to cartI never legislated, I never enforced, and I never obeyed any laws! Laws dictated by the interests of a handful of rulers. I came across their laws everywhere, but I never found justice. I’ll remain wi
- Author: Palaiokostas, Vassilis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1904491405
- Language: English
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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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The Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome
$39.95 Add to cartWho were the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome? What did they mean to the people who worshipped them? Although their time of widespread worship is long gone, the Greek and Roman gods have
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024189
- Language: English
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Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire
$22.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great conquered an enormous empire–stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent–and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing events. These were years filled with h… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0199931526
- 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 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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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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Greece After the War: Years of Hope
$45.00 Add to cartWhen photographer Robert A. McCabe first came to Greece as a college student in 1954, he found a country still scarred by the Axis occupation of World War II and the civil war that followed: poverty w… [more below]
- Author: McCabe, Robert A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0789214741
- 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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History of Ancient Egypt
$45.00 Add to cartThe ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of the pyramids. Famed archaeologist John Romer draws o… [more below]
- Series: History of Ancient Egypt #1
- Author: Romer, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 20 2013
- ISBN10: 1250030110
- Language: English
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Molyvos: A Greek Village’s Heroic Response to the Global Refugee Crisis
$36.95 Add to cartMolyvos, a small seaside village once home to fishermen and shepherds but now a popular summer vacation destination, sits on the northern shore of the Greek island of Lesvos along a four-mile-wide str… [more below]
- Author: Webb, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125701
- 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
