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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
$20.00 Read moreNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.
What is the nature of things?
What is justice? How can I be myself?
How should we treat each o- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338166
- Language: English
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The Waters of Mnemosyne: Ancient Greek Religion for Modern Pagans
$22.99 Read moreBuild a Deep, Contemporary Practice Rooted in Ancient Greek Traditions
Presenting more than seventy exercises, rites, pathworkings, and prayers, Gwendolyn Reece ingeniously revitalizes fundamental con
- Author: Reece, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 08 2024
- ISBN10: 738778893
- Language: English
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The Hellenistic Age: A Short History
$20.00 Add to cartThe Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity’s great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green’s remarkably far-ranging stu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Green, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0812967402
- Language: English
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The Siege of Tyre: Alexander the Great and the Gateway to Empire
$32.50 Read moreThe island city of Tyre along the coast of Lebanon was for centuries an impregnable fortress and key to unlocking Phoenician and Persian power in the Near East. Its fall was first prophesied in the Bo… [more below]
- Author: Guenther, David A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1594164282
- Language: English
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The Histories
$10.95 Add to cart“The father of history,” as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535663
- Language: English
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The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of Myth
$24.99 Read moreCompelling evidence that the events of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean
– Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to an- Author: Vinci, Felice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1594770522
- Language: English
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Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
$35.00 Read moreThis definitive biography of one of history’s most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world — and their rise and fall from power.
Alexander the Great’s conquests… [more below]- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 154164669X
- Language: English
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Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
$20.00 Read more“Mr. Cartledge’s command of the historical material is effortless and exhaustive, and his appreciation of Thebes is persuasive.” —Wall Street Journal
“An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1419758551
- Language: English
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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the… [more below]
- Author: Herman, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0553385666
- Language: English
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A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
$23.00 Add to cartOne of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first centur… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0812969707
- Language: English
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Arcadian Days: Gods, Women, and Men from Greek Myths
$27.95 Read more“Breathtakingly successful.” –Michael Dirda, Washington Post
A bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus an- Author: Spurling, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363181
- Language: English
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Greek Mythology: A Traveler’s Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy
$24.95 Read moreThe Greek myths have a universal appeal, beyond the time and physical place in which they were created. But many are firmly rooted in specific landscapes: the city of Thebes and mountain range Cithaer… [more below]
- Author: Stuttard, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0500518327
- Language: English
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The War of the Three Gods: Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam
$24.95 Read more- Author: Crawford, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1629145122
- Language: English
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The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
$35.00 Read moreA preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine.
Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth cent… [more below]- Author: Fox, Robin Lane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0465093442
- Language: English
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Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
$26.00 Read moreFor many, “Greece” is synonymous with “ancient Greece,” the civilization that gave us much that defines Western culture today. But, how did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of th… [more below]
- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: June 04 2021
- ISBN10: 022680979X
- Language: English
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Naval Battle of Crete 1941: The Royal Navy at Breaking Point
$25.00 Read moreA fascinating account of an often overlooked naval action of World War II, and one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of the Royal Navy.
In April 1941, following the Axis invasion of Greece, th- Series: Campaign #388
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854047
- Language: English
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
$22.00 Add to cartIn the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and … [more below]
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0307279480
- Language: English
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Julius Zebra: Grapple with the Greeks!
$8.99 Read moreIt’s all Greek to Julius Zebra and his pals in this fourth exciting, action-packed, hilarious adventure brimming with entertaining facts about the ancient world.
On a mission from Heracles to find his- Series: Julius Zebra
- Author: Northfield, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1536219886
- Language: English
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Phaedrus
$10.95 Add to cartPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554021
- Language: English
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Cities That Shaped the Ancient World
$16.95 Read moreThe cities of the ancient world built the foundations for modern urban life, their innovations in architecture and politics essential to cities as we know them today. But what was it like to live in B
- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0500293406
- Language: English
