Greece
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The Shortest History of Greece: The Odyssey of a Nation from Myth to Modernity
$16.95 Read morePhilosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers–the glories of Greek civilization have shaped our world even more profoundly than we realize. Pericles and the Parthenon may be familiar, but what… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Heneage, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199489
- Language: English
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The Complete World of Greek Mythology
$39.95 Add to cartGreek myths are among the most complex and influential stories ever told. From the first millennium BC until today, the myths have been repeated in an inexhaustible series of variations and reinterpre… [more below]
- Series: Complete #0
- Author: Buxton, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0500251215
- Language: English
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Aristotle for Everybody
$18.99 Add to cartAristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now… [more below]
- Author: Adler, Mortimer J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0684838230
- Language: English
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Greek Lives
$13.95 Add to cart“I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror…The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as m… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540055
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 1: The Dryden Translation
$21.00 Add to cartPlutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by fa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756760
- Language: English
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Frommer’s Athens and the Greek Islands
$24.95 Add to cartThis guide is geared to travelers who want to go to Greece for beaches, beautiful weather, island hopping, archaeological riches, and the capital city of Athens. Inside, you’ll find smart itineraries,
- Series: Complete Guide
- Author: Brewer, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1628875496
- Language: English
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Athens: City of Wisdom
$21.95 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.
Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis s- Author: Clark, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363645
- Language: English
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World
$20.95 Add to cartA gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war
Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-- Author: Mayor, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691211086
- Language: English
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The Magus
$8.99 Add to cartA man trapped in a millionare’s deadly game of political and sexual betrayal
Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman,- Author: Fowles, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0440351626
- Language: English
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Gender Swapped Greek Myths
$28.95 Add to cartA new captivating, inspiring, and totally perspective-shifting volume from the wife and husband team behind Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
The Greek myths were first told thousands of years ago, by poets- Author: Fransman, Karrie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0571371329
- Language: English
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Music: A Subversive History
$22.99 Add to cart“A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched” (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.
Histories of music overwhelmingly su- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1541644379
- Language: English
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Haute Bohemians: Greece: Historic and Contemporary Interiors of Greece
$75.00 Read moreA glorious, intimate homage to the magical country of Greece, from bestselling photographer and writer Miguel Flores-Vianna.
A land immortalized by poets for its otherworldly beauty, Greece is the b- Author: Flores-Vianna, Miguel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0865654069
- Language: English
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Peináo: A Greek Feast for All: Recipes to Feed Hungry Guests
$35.00 Add to cartModern Greek feasts to feed those you love.
Pein?o is a contemporary celebration of traditional tried-and-tested Greek food, delivered feast style: cooking for roommates, brunch with your besties, or- Author: Moursellas, Helena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1922754595
- Language: English
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Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization
$35.00 Read moreWithout the Byzantine Empire, there never would have been Western civilization.
Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philos- Author: Spencer, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1637587422
- Language: English
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These Were the Greeks
$27.95 Read moreThe authors are sensitive to the current impatience with traditional historical content, yet they convey much historical fact without losing either the reader’s attention or the shape of the long time… [more below]
- Author: Amos, Hugh D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 31 1982
- ISBN10: 0802312756
- Language: English
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Sparta’s Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 418-413 B.C.
$34.99 Read moreThe great expedition to Sicily described in the sixth and seventh books of Thucydides’ history can be depicted in a variety of ways. By some, it has been thoughtfully treated as an example of overreac… [more below]
- Author: Rahe, Paul A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773375
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
$14.00 Add to cart‘Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just’
Plato’s account of Socrates’ trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and th- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0140455493
- Language: English
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The Histories
$14.00 Add to cartTranslated by Aubrey de S?incourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449086
- Language: English
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The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
$30.00 Add to cartHow rhetoric–the art of persuasion–can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony
The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for ov- Author: Reames, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541603974
- Language: English
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The Greeks: A Global History
$22.99 Add to cartA “monumental, sweeping” (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today
More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sp- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603648
- Language: English
