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Trade Paperback : $22.99 Buy	The Greeks and Greek Civilization Jacob Burckhardt; Edited and with an Introduction by Oswyn Murray; Translated by Sheila Stern St. Martin's Griffin In 1872, Jacob Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture, presented this revolutionary work, which portrays ancient...

Hardcover : $37.50 Buy	Athens A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age Cristian Meier; Translated by Robert Kimbe Metropolitan Books A lively and accessible history of Athens's rise to greatness, from one of the foremost classical historians. The definitive account of Athens in the age of...

Trade Paperback : $21.95 Buy	Gods, Demigods and Demons A Handbook of Greek Mythology Bernard Evslin I.B. Tauris Gods, Demigods and Demons is a concise, yet wide-ranging handbook of Greek mythology that promises a vivid introduction to the great myths of ancient Greece....

Trade Paperback : $17.95 Buy	Mysteries of the Oracles The Last Secrets of Antiquity Philipp Vandenberg Tauris Parke Paperbacks The oracles are one of the great mysteries of the ancient world. Doorways to the underworld, foretellers of the future, decision-makers for kings and paupers...

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Circumference

Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe

Nicholas Nicastro St. Martin's Press

How do you measure the size of the planet you’re standing on? “Circumference" is the story of what happened when one man asked himself that very question....

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Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	The Ancient Greeks at War Louis Rawlings Manchester University Press Drawing on a wealth of literary, epigraphic and archaeological material, this wide-ranging synthesis looks at the practicalities of Greek warfare and its wider...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	The Ionian Islands Corfu, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Beyond John Freely I.B. Tauris Legend has it that the Ionian Islands were created as Zeus’ beautiful lover, Io, raced through the Ionian Sea escaping Hera’s wrath. Rising from the waters...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium Perceptions and Representations in Art and Text Myrto Hatzaki Palgrave Macmillan Beauty and the Beast looks into physical beauty in Byzantium, and reveals a quality with an unmistakable dark side. It is the curious dynamics of beauty in...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Bull of Minos The Great Discoveries of Ancient Greece Leonard Cottrell Tauris Parke Paperbacks This is the story of two of the most heroic, and controversial, figures in archaeology: Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the remains of Troy, and Arthur...

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Alexander the Great

Lessons from History's Undefeated General

World Generals Series

Bill Yenne; Foreword by General Wesley K. Clark Palgrave Macmillan

When the Oracle of Delphi told Alexander the Great that he was invincible, it was right. The son of the great King Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander was...

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Hardcover : $59.50 Buy	Researches in Greece and Albania The Languages and Dialects of a Balkan Region William Martin Leake and Introduction By Robert Elsie I.B. Tauris Regarded by Lord Byron as the best informed Englishman of his time about Greece and Albania, William Leake’s insights into the region remain fresh and relevant...

Hardcover : $28.00 Buy	Greece, The Hidden Centuries Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence David Brewer I.B. Tauris For almost 400 years, between the fall of Constantinople and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery, distorted by Greek...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	The Book of Alexander the Great A Life of the Conqueror Edited By Richard Stoneman I.B. Tauris The Book of Alexander the Great - or the Phyllada - has for three centuries been the most popular account of Alexander's career in modern Greece. After...

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	The Metamorphosis of Ovid From Chaucer to Ted Hughes Sarah Annes Brown Palgrave Macmillan The Roman poet Ovid's best-known poem, the Metamorphoses, is one of the cornerstones of Western culture and the principal source for all the most famous myths...

Hardcover : $29.95 Buy	The Peloponnesian War Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Greece Nigel Bagnall Thomas Dunne Books The Peloponnesian War, the epic struggle between Athens and Sparta, occupies a vital part in military history because of the enormous military and political...

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Xenophon's Cyrus the Great

The Arts of Leadership and War

Edited and with an Introduction by Larry Hedrick St. Martin's Griffin

In 1906, a stilted English translation of Xenophon of Athens' story about Cyrus the Great's military campaigns was published. Now, a century later, a much more...

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Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	Crete Discovering the 'Great Island' John Freely Tauris Parke Paperbacks Crete is a major travel destination with two million visitors per year. This guide is the product of a long summer the author spent living in a crumbling...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	A History of Greece Palgrave Essential Histories Series Nicholas Doumanis Palgrave Macmillan Drawing on the latest research into ancient, medieval and modern history, this single-volume traces the history of Greek culture and societies from the Bronze...

Hardcover : $35.00 Buy	Syracuse, City of Legends A Glory of Sicily Jeremy Dummett I.B. Tauris Dubbed "the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all" by Cicero, Syracuse also boasts the richest history of anywhere in Sicily. Syracuse, City...

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Falling for Icarus

A Journey among the Cretans

Rory MacLean Tauris Parke Paperbacks

On a windy spring morning in an ancient Cretan village, Rory MacLean fell to earth. His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had risen...

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Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire Comte de Marcellus and the Last of the Classics Gonda Van Steen Palgrave Macmillan Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire explores two key historical episodes that have generally escaped the notice of modern Greece, the Near East, and...

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