Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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Bacchae
$19.99 Add to cartA bold new translation of Euripides’ shockingly modern classic work, from Forward Prize-winning poet, Robin Robertson, with a new introduction by bestselling and award-winning writer, critic and trans
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 0062319671
- Language: English
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The Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu’s Classic Book of Strategy
$14.99 Add to cartThe Art of War by Sun Tzu is the best known book on military strategy ever written. Although its wisdom is ancient, its principles and advice are timeless; it remains as influential as ever in militar… [more below]
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0804854351
- Language: English
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The Kings of Israel and Judah: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Jewish Kingdom of David and Solomon, the Divided Monarchy, and the Assyrian and Bab
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the kings of Israel and Judah, then keep reading…
The history of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah and their kings is a story of epic heroes
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481716
- Language: English
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The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments
$11.99 Add to cartEpicureanism is commonly regarded as the refined satisfaction of physical desires. As a philosophy, however, it also denoted the striving after an independent state of mind and body, imperturbability,… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Epicurus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0879758104
- Language: English
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How to Think about God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers
$18.95 Add to cartA vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero’s influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divine
Most ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods–from Jupite- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0691183651
- Language: English
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Birds and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis new verse translation of Aristophanes’ comedies offers one of the world’s great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes’ plays were p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555672
- Language: English
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Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek culture. Cartledge highlights the ro… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0199601348
- Language: English
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Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book, Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle’s scientific researches, his discove… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #32
- Author: Barnes, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854089
- Language: English
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
$22.00 Add to cartThe first full-scale history of Hannibal’s Carthage in decades and “a convincing and enthralling narrative.” (The Economist )
Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master- Author: Miles, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121294
- Language: English
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The Age of Alexander
$18.00 Add to cartPlutarch’s influential writings on the ancient world
Plutarch’s parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by countless writers s… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0140449353
- Language: English
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Sacred Nile
$50.00 Add to cartSacred Nile is the story of our collective spiritual imagination and practice. Chester Higgins celebrates the agency of people of African descent and their influence on the foundation of Western relig… [more below]
- Author: Higgins, Chester
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0578851180
- Language: English
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Mesopotamia: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Mesopotamian History and Civilizations, Including the Sumerians and Sumerian Mythology,
$43.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the remarkable history of Mesopotamia, then keep reading…
Seven captivating manuscripts in one book:
- Sumerians: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Sumerian History, Sumerian Myt
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481791
- Language: English
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Cinematic Storytelling
$30.95 Add to cartWhat the industry’s most succcessful writers and directors have in common is that they have mastered the cinematic conventions specific to the medium.
- Author: Van Sijll, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 193290705X
- Language: English
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Readings in World Christian History: Volume 1: Earliest Christianity to 1453
$44.00 Add to cartThrough the advice of many scholars of Christian origins the selections here include texts that show students how Christianity developed and was lived in Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. These tex… [more below]
- Author: Sterk, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 435
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 1570755205
- Language: English
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Nicomachean Ethics
$11.00 Read moreHailed by Dante as “the master of those who know,” the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) surveyed every field of learning known to the ancient world and pioneered the sciences of psychology a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 1998
- ISBN10: 486400964
- Language: English
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The Rose & the Dagger
$18.99 Add to cartInstant New York Times Bestseller
The much anticipated sequel to the breathtaking The Wrath and the Dawn, lauded by Publishers Weekly as “a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance.”
I am surrounded- Series: Wrath and the Dawn #2
- Author: Ahdieh, Ren?e
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0399171622
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Gaul
$12.00 Add to cartBetween 58 and 50 BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns. Caesar’s narrative offers insight… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 1983
- ISBN10: 0140444335
- Language: English
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How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land
$16.95 Add to cartA delightful anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings celebrating country living–ranging from a philosophy of compost to hymns to the gods of agriculture
Whether you farm or garden, live in th- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Usher, M. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691211744
- Language: English
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Story of the World, Vol. 1 Activity Book: History for the Classical Child: Ancient Times
$40.95 Add to cartThis comprehensive, 8.5″ x 11″ curriculum guide and activity book contains map activities, coloring pages, games, projects, review questions, cross-references to illustrated encyclopedias, and extensi… [more below]
- Series: Story of the World
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1933339055
- Language: English
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The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
$22.95 Add to cartThe first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories–from myths and fairy tales to jokes
Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex,- Author: Hansen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0691195927
- Language: English
