Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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The Lantern Bearers
$13.99 Read moreRosemary Sutcliff’s The Lantern Bearers is the winner of the 1959 Carnegie Medal in Literature.
The last of the Roman army have set sail and left Britain forever, abandoning it to civil war and the th- Series: Roman Britain Trilogy #3
- Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0312644302
- Language: English
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Oresteia
$11.95 Add to cartThe Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy–the inexorable natur… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953781X
- Language: English
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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphas- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Annas, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0198805888
- Language: English
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Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun’s Dynasty
$35.00 Read moreA vivid story of an astonishing period in ancient Egypt’s history–1550 BC to 1295 BC–that tears away the gold and glamour to reveal how these great pharaohs ruthlessly ruled Egypt for two hundred an… [more below]
- Author: de Jes?s, Gerardo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363068
- Language: English
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A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
$18.95 Read moreFrom the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt’s ancient past took place in an
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882403
- Language: English
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Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
$19.99 Add to cart“Riveting. … Pattison’s uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. … In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers.” —New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
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- Author: Pattison, Kermit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0062410296
- Language: English
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20 Poemas de Amor Y Una Canción Desesperada
$9.95 Read moreThis book, originally published in 1924, occupies a privileged place within the vast and always current work of Pablo Neruda. It is not only one of his most popular works, but also the one that best r… [more below]
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 6074003696
- Language: Spanish
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All’s Well That Ends Well
$9.99 Add to cartThe authoritative edition of All’s Well That Ends Well from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Shakespeare’s All’s Well Tha… [more below]
- Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1982164964
- Language: English
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Pyrrho’s Way: The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
$29.95 Add to cartIt is not events that disturb us, but what we believe about them.
In ancient Greece, a group of philosophers developed highly effective techniques to change our thoughts for the better, allowing practi
- Author: Bates, Douglas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1896559565
- Language: English
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The Republic
$7.99 Add to cartPackaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works. From the musings of intellectuals such as Thomas Paine in Common Sense to the striking personal… [more below]
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1945186275
- Language: English
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Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome’s Greatest Enemy
$39.95 Read moreThe Romans’ destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal’s life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every in… [more below]
- Author: Gabriel, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1597976865
- Language: English
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The Thinking Root: The Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartAcclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and thin… [more below]
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Beachy-Quick, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1571315446
- Language: English
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From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics
$29.99 Add to cart“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.” –C. S. Lewis In From Achilles to Christ, Louis Markos introduces readers to the great narratives of classical mythology from a Christian p
- Author: Markos, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0830825932
- Language: English
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
$19.00 Add to cartThis Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne’s great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “The Extasie,” and “A Noctu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Donne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757341
- Language: English
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The Complete Plays of Sophocles
$16.99 Add to cart“Bagg and Scully’s renderings strike me as the most performable versions of Sophocles I’ve ever encountered…if you’re looking for the translation that best reflects the emotional force and expressiv
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: December 13, 2013
- ISBN10: 006202034X
- Language: English
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Enuma Elish
$13.99 Add to cartThe Enuma Elish is widely known as the classic Akkadian creation myth, passed down from the Sumerian, and replete with all the gods one has come to expect from ancient mythology. But is this an accura
- Author: Goudsward, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: January 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1989940390
- Language: English
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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination — mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured the imagination of generati- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Shaw, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198845464
- Language: English
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A History of Modern Japan: In Search of a Nation: 1850 to the Present
$16.99 Add to cart“Lucid and lyrical…a vivid history of Japan’s turbocharged (and painful) modernization.” –The Daily Telegraph
In A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the un- Author: Harding, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 4805315970
- Language: English
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Ages in Chaos I: From the Exodus to King Akhnaton
$39.99 Add to cartThis is the first volume of the series Ages in Chaos, in which Immanuel Velikovsky undertakes a reconstruction of the history of antiquity. With utmost precision and the exciting style of a presentati
- Series: Ages in Chaos #1
- Author: Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: July 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1906833532
- Language: English
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The Second Book of the Tao
$18.00 Add to cart“A twenty-first-century form of ancient wisdom . . . Mitchell’s flights, his paradoxes, his wonderful riffs are brilliant and liberating.” -Pico Iyer
The most widely translated book in world litera- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0143116703
- Language: English
