Greece
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilization
$25.00 Add to cartA magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian
- Author: Everitt, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0812984986
- Language: English
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Aegean: Recipes from the Mountains to the Sea
$26.95 Read moreSo much more than a cookbook; it is a love song to Crete and its cuisine
Marianna Leivaditaki is a natural storyteller. She grew up in Chania, on the Greek island of Crete, and spent her childhood hel- Author: Leivaditaki, Marianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718236
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 2
$21.00 Read morePlutarch’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: 752
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756779
- Language: English
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “An excellent introduction to a critical period in the history of Rome. Cicero comes across much as he must have lived: reflective, charming and rather vain.”–The Wall Street Jo… [more below]
- Author: Everitt, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 06 2003
- ISBN10: 037575895X
- Language: English
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Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens
$11.99 Read moreSofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wo… [more below]
- Author: Zinovieff, Sofka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1862077509
- Language: English
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A Greek Love: A Novel of Cuba
$24.99 Read moreFor readers of Isabel Allende, Gabriela Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, the story of a woman who must fight for her love and her child in a Cuba suffocated by oppression
A free spirit who spends time near- Author: Valdés, Zoé
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1956763406
- Language: English
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Myth and Thought Among the Greeks
$34.00 Add to cart“Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant’s magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as it was when first published in 1965, this new editi
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 1890951609
- Language: English
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Niki
$18.99 Read moreA resilient Greek woman recounts her and her family’s extraordinary story at the end of her life, marked by the great historical events of the twentieth century.
Born in 1938, Niki, the daughter of th- Author: Chomenidis, Christos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1635421977
- Language: English
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The Story of Greece and Rome
$16.00 Read moreThe extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia, from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century
The magnificent civilization cr- Author: Spawforth, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300251645
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica
$13.95 Add to cart“He was a man like no other man has ever been”
In twelve years that changed the world, Alexander the Great conquered a vast empire, extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, and from Egyp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hammond, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199587248
- Language: English
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The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
$23.00 Read moreFrom the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chron… [more below]
- Author: Lefkowitz, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1984854321
- Language: English
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The Christian Traveler’s Guide to the Holy Land
$19.99 Read moreSo, you’re going to Israel? Don’t go without this guide.
A trip to the Holy Land can be life changing. In this one-stop book, Charles Dyer–Bible scholar and veteran Holy Land tour guide–and Greg Hatt
- Author: Dyer, Charles H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0802430953
- Language: English
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Athens
$13.99 Read moreMake the most of your trip to Athens with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the best that Athens offers and ensuring that you don’t miss anything. The p… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0241668212
- Language: English
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The Greek Mythology Coloring Book: Epic Scenes from Olympus and Beyond
$18.00 Read moreBring Greek mythology to life in this stunningly illustrated coloring book featuring gods, goddesses, unique creatures, epic scenes, and more.
From the gleaming heavens up above to the darkest depths- Author: Yoon, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0593580354
- Language: English
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Daughter of Ruins
$18.99 Add to cartA motherless daughter. An Italian prostitute. A mail-order bride. Are these women brave enough to change their fates?
Demitra’s mother died in America in the 1930s when Demitra was three years old. Her
- Author: Corporon, Yvette Manessis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1400236118
- Language: English
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The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the celebrated British author and historian: a brilliant new book combining historical inquiry and storytelling lan to paint an unprecedentedly vivid portrait of Socrates and the Golden Age of c… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1400076013
- Language: English
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The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games
$25.00 Add to cartWhat was it like to attend the ancient Olympic Games?
With the summer Olympics’ return to Athens, Tony Perrottet delves into the ancient world and lets the Greek Games begin again. The acclaimed autho- Author: Perrottet, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 081296991X
- Language: English
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Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity
Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conque- Author: Roberts, Jennifer T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0691181470
- Language: English
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Insight Guides the Greek Islands: Travel Guide with Free eBook
$26.99 Add to cartThis Greek Islands guidebook is ideal for travellers seeking inspirational guides and planning a more extended trip. It provides interesting facts about The Greek Islands’s people, history and culture
- Series: Insight Guides
- Author: Insight Guides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1839053844
- Language: English
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Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
$18.99 Add to cartA “lively, wide-ranging” (TheTimes, UK)cultural history of the goddess of love
Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the ancient Gree- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606043
- Language: English
