Cultural Region/Greece
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Sparta and the Commemoration of War
$39.99 Add to cartThe tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus inspi… [more below]
- Author: Sears, Matthew A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1316519457
- Language: English
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Greek Mythology for Teens: Enthralling Tales and Myths from Ancient Greece
$26.99 Add to cartDid you know that Zeus was considered to be both the youngest and the oldest brother?
Thanks to their enthralling narratives and relatable characters, Greek myths have captured our imagination for mill
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651859
- Language: English
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Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece
$27.00 Add to cartFrom fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexha… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
- Author: Schwab, Gustav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375714464
- Language: English
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Sea Salt and Honey: Celebrating the Food of Kardamili in 100 Sun-Drenched Recipes: A New Greek Cookbook
$35.00 Add to cartAn enchanting celebration of Greek provincial life–its charming culture and sublime food–captured in 100 delectable recipes and captivating stories from the Greek-American Tsakiris family, accompani
- Author: Tsakiris, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0062917358
- 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 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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories
$25.95 Add to cartWho was Pandora and what was in her famous box? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What exactly is a Titan? And why is one computer virus known as a Trojan horse?
The myths of ancient Greece and … [more below]
- Series: Myths
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0500251738
- Language: English
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Greece After the War: Years of Hope
$45.00 Add to cartWhen photographer Robert A. McCabe first came to Greece as a college student in 1954, he found a country still scarred by the Axis occupation of World War II and the civil war that followed: poverty w… [more below]
- Author: McCabe, Robert A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0789214741
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
$19.95 Read moreA major new history of classical Greece–how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from it
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. T- Series: Princeton History of the Ancient World #1
- Author: Ober, Josiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 691173141
- Language: English
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Classical Gods and Heroes
$18.99 Add to cartAll the wonder, terror, and delight of Greek mythology springs forth from the pages of this unique and much-needed anthology.
Rhonda Hendricks has not only selected from the works of the ancient autho
- Author: Hendricks, Rhoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0688052797
- Language: English
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Greek Mythology: A Complete Guide to Greek Mythology, Greek Gods, and Ancient Greece
$14.99 Add to cartGREEK MYTHOLOGY
If you want to enter the world of Greek mythology and to learn about its heroes and villains, this book has all of it in store for you
This book covers a wide variety of the fam
- Author: Walsh, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1761035991
- Language: English
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Enchiridion
$6.99 Add to cartAlthough he was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability, Epictetus maintained that all people are free to control their lives and to live in harmony with nature. We will always b
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: November 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115868
- Language: English
