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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the… [more below]
- Author: Herman, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0553385666
- Language: English
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A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
$23.00 Add to cartOne of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first centur… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0812969707
- Language: English
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Arcadian Days: Gods, Women, and Men from Greek Myths
$27.95 Read more“Breathtakingly successful.” –Michael Dirda, Washington Post
A bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus an- Author: Spurling, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363181
- Language: English
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Ancient Magic: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome
$24.95 Read moreIn the ancient world, magic was everywhere. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies. In a time before scientists studied weather patterns and figured ou
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0500052077
- Language: English
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Greek Mythology: A Traveler’s Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy
$24.95 Read moreThe Greek myths have a universal appeal, beyond the time and physical place in which they were created. But many are firmly rooted in specific landscapes: the city of Thebes and mountain range Cithaer… [more below]
- Author: Stuttard, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0500518327
- Language: English
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The War of the Three Gods: Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam
$24.95 Read more- Author: Crawford, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1629145122
- Language: English
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The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
$35.00 Read moreA preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine.
Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth cent… [more below]- Author: Fox, Robin Lane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0465093442
- Language: English
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Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
$26.00 Add to cartFor many, “Greece” is synonymous with “ancient Greece,” the civilization that gave us much that defines Western culture today. But, how did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of th… [more below]
- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: June 04 2021
- ISBN10: 022680979X
- Language: English
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A History of the Classical World: The Story of Ancient Greece and Rome
$24.99 Read moreThis richly illustrated hardback chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient Greek and Roman empires, accompanied by full-color images of artifacts, artwork, maps and more.
From palace-based societie- Series: Arcturus Science & History Collection #16
- Author: Wyse, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1839406720
- Language: English
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Naval Battle of Crete 1941: The Royal Navy at Breaking Point
$25.00 Read moreA fascinating account of an often overlooked naval action of World War II, and one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of the Royal Navy.
In April 1941, following the Axis invasion of Greece, th- Series: Campaign #388
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854047
- Language: English
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
$21.00 Add to cartIn the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and … [more below]
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0307279480
- Language: English
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Julius Zebra: Grapple with the Greeks!
$8.99 Read moreIt’s all Greek to Julius Zebra and his pals in this fourth exciting, action-packed, hilarious adventure brimming with entertaining facts about the ancient world.
On a mission from Heracles to find his- Series: Julius Zebra
- Author: Northfield, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1536219886
- 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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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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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 2
$21.00 Read morePlutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by fa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756779
- 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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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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A Greek Love: A Novel of Cuba
$24.99 Read moreFor readers of Isabel Allende, Gabriela Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, the story of a woman who must fight for her love and her child in a Cuba suffocated by oppression
A free spirit who spends time near- Author: Valdés, Zoé
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1956763406
- Language: English
