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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 : $24.95 Buy	On the Trail of the Women Warriors The Amazons in Myth and History Lyn Webster Wilde Thomas Dunne Books "Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons." That is how the fifth century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons,...

Trade Paperback : $18.95 Buy	Tutankhamen The Life and Death of the Boy-King Christine El Mahdy St. Martin's Griffin When Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in 1922, even the most experienced archaeologists joined the international community in marveling at the incredible...

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	Islam's Black Slaves The Other Black Diaspora Ronald Segal Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Byzantium The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Michael Angold St. Martin's Press Michael Angold's book is a clear, concise and authoritative history of the successor to Roman imperial power: the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was a Greek...

Hardcover : $35.00 Buy	The Mind of Egypt History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs Jan Assmann; Translated by Andrew Jenkins Metropolitan Books From one of the world's greatest Egyptologists, an original and brilliant study of the inner life of ancient Egypt The Mind of Egypt presents an...

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Wisdom's Daughter

A Novel of Solomon and Sheba

India Edghill Picador

Following Queenmaker, "her majestic debut" (People), India Edghill's Wisdom's Daughter is a vivid and assiduously researched rendition of the biblical tale of...

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Trade Paperback : $18.95 Buy	The Atlas of Early Man The Rise of Man Across the Globe, From 35,000 B.C. to A.D. 500 With Over 1,000 Maps And Illustrations Jaquetta Hawkes St. Martin's Griffin The Atlas of Early Man is a unique, and uniquely fascinating, work of popular natural history. For nearly two decades, it has been the definitive survey of the...

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 : $20.99 Buy	Before the Flood The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization Ian Wilson St. Martin's Griffin In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken...

Hardcover : $17.95 Buy	The Gladiators from Capua The Roman Mysteries By Caroline Lawrence Roaring Brook Press March, AD 80. In Rome the Emperor Titus has announced that there will be a hundred days of games to open the new Flavian amphitheatre (now known as the...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	The Chemical Muse Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization D.C.A. Hillman, Ph.D. Thomas Dunne Books “The last wild frontier of classical studies.” ---The Times (UK) The Chemical Muse uncovers decades of misdirection and obfuscation to reveal the history of...

Hardcover : $29.95 Buy	Pompeii The Living City Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence St. Martin's Press The ash of Mt. Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating society it instantly obliterated two thousand years ago. In this highly...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	The Gladiators History's Most Deadly Sport Fik Meijer St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books Superfit, muscled, and macho, gladiators were hero-worshipped for their skills and courage as they fought to the death, yet despised for their humble status....

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...

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...

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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Livia, Empress of Rome

A Biography

Matthew Dennison St. Martin's Press

Rome is a subject of endless fascination, and in this new biography of the infamous Empress Livia, Matthew Dennison brings to life a woman long believed to be...

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Babylon

Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Paul Kriwaczek Thomas Dunne Books

Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and...

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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...

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The Fall of Rome

A Novel of a World Lost

Michael Curtis Ford Minotaur Books

476 A.D. The Roman Empire, staggered by centuries of barbarian onslaughts and riddled with corruption, now faces its greatest challenge—not only to its power...

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Hardcover : $29.99 Buy	Warriors of the World: The Ancient Warrior 3000 BCE - 500 CE Martin J. Dougherty Thomas Dunne Books The first book in a new, lavishly illustrated series on the weapons, uniforms, and other key details that defined the world’s most legendary warriors...

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