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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 Add to cartIt’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
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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
$36.00 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
