Cultural Region/Greece
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A Brief History of the Human Race
$27.99 Add to cartWhy has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role o… [more below]
- Author: Cook, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0393326454
- Language: English
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Socrates: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSocrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have been u… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, C. C. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198835981
- Language: English
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The Complete Euripides: Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Tran… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Burian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0195388690
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Greece
$32.00 Add to cartNow reissued in a fourth, updated edition, this book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the modern history of Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eightee… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Clogg, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: March 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1108948995
- Language: English
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5 Cities That Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London & New York Shaped Global History
$19.99 Add to cartIn Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history’s most influential cities –Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London
- Author: Wilson, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1595551360
- Language: English
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C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, Revised Edition
$29.95 Add to cartC. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important fig… [more below]
- Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #157
- Author: Cavafy, C. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0691015376
- Language: English
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Euripides Ten Plays
$7.95 Add to cartA modern translation exclusive to signet
From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, I- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0451527003
- Language: English
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A Summer Greek Reader: A Workbook for Maintaining Your Biblical Greek
$14.99 Add to cartA Summer Greek Reader is the first practical text specifically designed to help students of introductory Greek strengthen their grasp of the essentials over the summer.
By spending just twenty minutes
- Series: Workbook for Maintaining Your Biblical Greek
- Author: Goodrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0310236606
- Language: English
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Greek Lyric Poetry
$13.95 Add to cartThe Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.–greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides–produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. Their poetry was … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: West, M. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954039X
- Language: English
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Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
$35.00 Add to cartJean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, the a… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0942299191
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Epicurus
$12.00 Read moreDespite its modern-day connotations of hedonism, “Epicureanism” has more to do with living a mindful, uncomplicated life. Epicurus — who was born at Samos, Greece, in 341 BC and died at Athens in 270… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Epicurus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0486833038
- Language: English
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Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes
$13.95 Add to cartAristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0192824090
- Language: English
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The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization, Volume II
$44.99 Add to cartThe Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest of Greece. This is the
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 828
- Publish Date: April 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115558
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle
$22.00 Add to cartThis long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi’s Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi’s substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterw
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Alfarabi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0801487161
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator whose Iliad was named one of The New Yorker‘s Favorite Books of 2011, comes a vivid new translation of the Odyssey, complete with textual notes and an il… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 145167418X
- Language: English
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The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization, Volume II
$64.99 Add to cartThe Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest of Greece. This is the
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 828
- Publish Date: April 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1638231133
- Language: English
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A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia: Vegetarian and Vegan Greek Kitchen Recipes
$35.00 Read moreJoin Kon Karapanagiotidis at his table in A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia, a beautiful and inspiring Greek vegetarian and vegan cookbook. Featuring more than 100 recipes passed down through the generat… [more below]
- Author: Karapanagiotidis, Kon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1743799241
- Language: English
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The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes
$26.95 Add to cartThe Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmia
- Series: Sport, Culture, and Society
- Author: Lunt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1682262014
- Language: English
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Iliad – Imperium Press
$25.95 Add to cartSet in the final days of the Trojan War, Homer’s poem recounts a formative moment in not only Greek culture, but in that of the West as a whole. W.C. Bryant’s verse translation has been acclaimed for
- Series: Western Canon
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: September 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0648690504
- Language: English
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Parmenides and the Way of Truth
$18.95 Add to cartAn inspiring account gives new life to the Greek philosopher immortalized in his dialogues with Socrates.
- Author: Geldard, Richard G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0976684349
- Language: English
