Cultural Region/Greece
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The War Nerd Iliad
$22.95 Read moreWe recognize the names: Achilles, Odysseus, Zeus, and Apollo. We’re taught that The Iliad is a foundational text of civilization. But who has really read the text? Until now, The Iliad was hijacked by
- Author: Dolan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1627310509
- Language: English
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Phaedrus
$10.95 Add to cartPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554021
- Language: English
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Cities That Shaped the Ancient World
$16.95 Read moreThe cities of the ancient world built the foundations for modern urban life, their innovations in architecture and politics essential to cities as we know them today. But what was it like to live in B
- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0500293406
- Language: English
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilization
$25.00 Add to cartA magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian
- Author: Everitt, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0812984986
- Language: English
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Olympians: Poseidon: Earth Shaker
$21.99 Read moreIn the fifth installment of the Olympians series of graphic novels, author/artist George O’Connor turns the spotlight on that most mysterious and misunderstood of the Greek gods, Poseidon: Earth Shake
- Series: Olympians (Hardcover) #5
- Author: O’Connor, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1596438282
- Language: English
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Olympians: Hermes: Tales of the Trickster
$21.99 Read moreGeorge 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1626725241
- Language: English
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Aphrodite the Beauty Graphic Novel
$19.99 Read moreAphrodite copes with unexpected feelings in the third book in the Goddess Girls Graphic Novel series.
Aphrodite, goddess girl of love, must deal with jealousy after giving Athena a makeover. It doesn’- Series: Goddess Girls Graphic Novel #3
- Author: Holub, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1534473939
- Language: English
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Aegean: Recipes from the Mountains to the Sea
$26.95 Read moreSo much more than a cookbook; it is a love song to Crete and its cuisine
Marianna Leivaditaki is a natural storyteller. She grew up in Chania, on the Greek island of Crete, and spent her childhood hel- Author: Leivaditaki, Marianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718236
- Language: English
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The Last of the Wine
$17.00 Add to cartIn The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey to the Olympic games, fight in the wars against Sparta, and study under Socrates. As their relationsh… [more below]
- Author: Renault, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375726810
- Language: English
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Hades and the Helm of Darkness Graphic Novel
$9.99 Read moreHades is the center of the (under)world in the third book of the graphic novel adaptation of the popular Heroes in Training series!
The Underworld usually isn’t anyone’s idea of a fun place–except fo- Series: Heroes in Training Graphic Novel #3
- Author: Holub, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1534481206
- Language: English
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Athena the Wise
$8.99 Add to cartThese classic myths from the Greek pantheon are given a modern twist that contemporary tweens can relate to, from dealing with bullies like Medusa to a first crush on an unlikely boy. Goddess Girls fo… [more below]
- Series: Goddess Girls #5
- Author: Holub, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1442420979
- Language: English
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Aristotle’s Metaphysics
$34.95 Read moreJoe Sachs has followed up his brilliant translation of Aristotle’s Physics with a new translation of Metaphysics. Sachs’s translations bring distinguished new light onto Aristotle’s works, which are f… [more below]
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 365
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1888009039
- Language: English
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Classic Myths to Read Aloud: The Great Stories of Greek and Roman Mythology, Specially Arranged for Children Five and Up by an Educational Expert
$18.00 Add to cartThe most complete collection of Greek and Roman myths specially arranged to be read aloud to children aged five to twelve. “Every child deserves this book. Those who do the reading aloud will be enlig… [more below]
- Author: Russell, William F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0517588374
- Language: English
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Get to Work, Hercules!
$9.99 Read moreYou’ve heard of Hercules, right? Big, strong guy who did tons of amazing, heroic deeds? Well one part of that myth is correct. Hercules was big and strong. But he had a teeny-tiny brain. He couldn’t h… [more below]
- Series: Myth-O-Mania #07
- Author: McMullan, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1434234401
- Language: English
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “An excellent introduction to a critical period in the history of Rome. Cicero comes across much as he must have lived: reflective, charming and rather vain.”–The Wall Street Jo… [more below]
- Author: Everitt, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 06 2003
- ISBN10: 037575895X
- Language: English
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Olympians: Dionysos: The New God
$21.99 Read moreGeorge 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 #12
- Author: O’Connor, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1626725306
- Language: English
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Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens
$11.99 Read moreSofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wo… [more below]
- Author: Zinovieff, Sofka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1862077509
- Language: English
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Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica)
$13.95 Add to cartThe Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Apollonius of Rhodes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538727
- Language: English
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Myth and Thought Among the Greeks
$34.00 Add to cart“Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant’s magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as it was when first published in 1965, this new editi
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 1890951609
- Language: English
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Hyperion and the Great Balls of Fire
$6.99 Add to cartThe action heats up for Zeus and his fellow Olympians in this blazing Heroes in Training tale.
Phew, it’s hot Under the titan Hyperion’s rule, the sun is burning even brighter than normal and scorchi- Series: Heroes in Training #4
- Author: Holub, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1442452692
- Language: English
