Cultural Region/Greece
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Salt of the Earth: Secrets and Stories from a Greek Kitchen
$37.50 Read more“Carolina Doriti stirs an obviously deep knowledge of the Greek landscape into every dish she lovingly and generously prepares. To have captured the traditional soul of the Greek table and to give it
- Author: Doriti, Carolina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1787138542
- Language: English
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Frommer’s Athens and the Greek Islands
$24.95 Add to cartThis guide is geared to travelers who want to go to Greece for beaches, beautiful weather, island hopping, archaeological riches, and the capital city of Athens. Inside, you’ll find smart itineraries,
- Series: Complete Guide
- Author: Brewer, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1628875496
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound
$14.99 Add to cartFor readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0195061659
- Language: English
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Athens: City of Wisdom
$21.95 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.
Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis s- Author: Clark, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363645
- Language: English
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Ikaria: Lessons on Food, Life, and Longevity from the Greek Island Where People Forget to Die: A Mediterranean Diet Cookbook
$35.00 Add to cartPart cookbook, part travelogue, Ikaria is an introduction to the food-as-life philosophy of the Greek island “blue zone” and a culinary journey through luscious recipes, gorgeous photography, and capt… [more below]
- Author: Kochilas, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1623362954
- Language: English
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Phaedo
$11.95 Add to cartThe Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato’s masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953893X
- Language: English
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator,… [more below]
- Author: Nixey, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1328589285
- Language: English
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Oh My Gods: A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths
$20.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed writer and scholar Philip Freeman, a contemporary retelling of classic Greek and Roman mythology.The Greek and Roman myths have never died out; in fact they are as relevant today as eve… [more below]
- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1451609981
- Language: English
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Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly fasc
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Morales, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 09, 2007
- ISBN10: 0192804766
- Language: English
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World
$19.95 Add to cartA gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war
Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-- Author: Mayor, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691211086
- Language: English
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Gorgias
$8.94 Add to cartOne of Plato’s most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosoph… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540322
- Language: English
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Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall
$14.93 Add to cartOne of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate p… [more below]
- Series: Plays for Performance
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1566632110
- Language: English
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Music: A Subversive History
$22.99 Add to cart“A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched” (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.
Histories of music overwhelmingly su- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1541644379
- Language: English
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Olympians: Hermes: Tales of the Trickster
$12.99 Add to cartGeorge O’Connor’s vibrant, kinetic art brings ancient tales to life in the New York Times Bestselling series The Olympians. This fusion of super-hero aesthetics and ancient Greek mythology is perfect
- Series: Olympians #10
- Author: O’Connor, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 162672525X
- Language: English
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Eros the Bittersweet
$15.95 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson’s exploration of the concept of “eros” in both classic
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1628973862
- Language: English
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The Oresteia
$17.00 Add to cartIn the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: February 07 1984
- ISBN10: 0140443339
- Language: English
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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece
$23.99 Add to cart“We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life.” So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has some Athenians decla… [more below]
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0190095768
- Language: English
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$5.95 Add to cartMagic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies.
When four young lovers, fleeing the law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to- Series: Signet Classic Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0451526961
- Language: English
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Haute Bohemians: Greece: Historic and Contemporary Interiors of Greece
$75.00 Read moreA glorious, intimate homage to the magical country of Greece, from bestselling photographer and writer Miguel Flores-Vianna.
A land immortalized by poets for its otherworldly beauty, Greece is the b- Author: Flores-Vianna, Miguel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0865654069
- Language: English
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Mina Stone: Cooking for Artists
$45.00 Add to cartSimple,
Chef Mina Stone has been cooking delicious lunches at Urs Fischer’s
fresh Greek cooking from Mina Stone
Brooklyn-based art studio for the past five years and producing private gallery
dinners in- Author: Stone, Mina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 098472107X
- Language: English
