Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
$22.00 Read moreEdited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the
Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin
Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1312
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0375758119
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Petrarch
$24.00 Add to cart“David Young’s version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West’s crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after.”
- Author: Petrarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529612
- 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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The Importance of Being Earnest
$11.99 Add to cartThe Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps Oscar Wilde’s most popular play – since its first performance in 1895, it has seen countless productions and three film adaptations, and, in the words of the
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1913724050
- Language: English
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Occidental Mythology (the Masks of God, Volume 3)
$29.95 Add to cartThe third volume in Campbell’s monumental four-volume series, The Masks of God, traces the mythological underpinnings of Western religions: the shift from female-centered to male-dominated mythologies… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1608687295
- Language: English
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The Love Songs of Sappho
$17.00 Add to cartCalled the “Tenth Muse” by the ancients, Greece’s greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sapp… [more below]
- Series: Literary Classics
- Author: Sappho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 157392251X
- Language: English
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On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians
$8.99 Add to cartOn the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians, also known as the Theurgia and under its abbreviated Latin title De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum, is a work of Neoplatonic philosophy primarily co
- Author: Iamblichus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1960069543
- Language: English
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Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
$30.95 Add to cartTwo late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national id
- Author: Samuels, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 15 2005
- ISBN10: 0801489822
- 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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Medea
$13.99 Add to cartThe Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrate… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0195145666
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, the Persians
$16.00 Add to cartAeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punish… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 30 1961
- ISBN10: 0140441123
- Language: English
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Cannae: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory
$18.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome’s most devastating defeat August 2, 216 BC was one of history’s bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain nea
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699254
- Language: English
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Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
$20.00 Add to cart“Cato, history’s most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republican
- Author: Goodman, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042623
- Language: English
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1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed
$24.95 Add to cartA beautiful, full-color graphic version of Eric Cline’s bestselling 1177 B.C., adapted by award-winning author-illustrator Glynnis Fawkes
Eric Cline’s 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history’s gre- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History #4
- Author: Cline, Eric H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 069121302X
- Language: English
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Hanukkah in Eight Nights: Bring the Past to Light
$8.95 Add to cartCelebrate a family Hanukkah with dramatic readings about the feats of the Maccabees. In addition to the candle lighting blessings, Hanukkah songs, recipes and dreidel game rules, this book incudes exc… [more below]
- Author: Sofaer, Marian Scheuer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0977476804
- Language: English
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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
$24.95 Add to cartThe Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of “truth,” Aletheia, from mythoreligious to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Marcel Detienne’s starting point is a simple observation… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Vidal-Naquet, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 12 1999
- ISBN10: 0942299868
- Language: English
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Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman: Six Plays
$29.98 Add to cartRich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight – varied, stimulating, broad in its view and deep in its perceptions…exciting variety of translations…enlightening essays from some of the mos… [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Corrigan, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 936839856
- Language: English
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Josephus: The Essential Writings
$24.99 Add to cartAn award-winning translation and condensation of The Jewish Antiquities and The Jewish War of Josephus. The historical events take on a brilliant new dimension in this revised edition now with photogr… [more below]
- Author: Josephus, Flavius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 12 1990
- ISBN10: 0825429641
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar’s Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
$17.95 Add to cartStephen Dando-Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the Tenth Legion as he follows Caesar and his men along the blood-soaked fringes of the Empire. This unprecedented regimen… [more below]
- Author: Dando-Collins, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0471686131
- 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
