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Commentary on Thucydides Volume 5. Book VIII Best Price: $191.16	Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire Hb (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) Best Price: $36.46	Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and others This pathbreaking work uncovers new translations of the main myths and epics written in...	War and Imperialism in Republican Rome, 327-70 B.C. Between 327 and 70 B.C. the Romans expanded their empire throughout the Mediterranean world. ...	Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion Readers of Greek literary, historical, oratorical, ritual, and even medical texts, are all...



A Commentary on Lysias, Speeches 1-11 Best Price: $245.82 Lysias was the leading Athenian speech-writer of the generation (403-380 BC) following the...	The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts 2 Volumes Best Price: $683.30 Dr. A. R. George has given the rich post-modern Babylonian Cuneiform scholarly community a...	Anatolica: Studies in Strabo Best Price: $144.99 Sir Ronald Syme (1903-89) is internationally known as one of the greatest Roman historians of...	Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World Best Price: $199.00 Jon Lendon offers a bold new analysis of how Roman government worked in the first four centuries...	Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities Best Price: $24.85 This highly original and authoritative account of the Greek family supersedes the only existing...



The Epigrams of Philodemos: Introduction, Text, and Commentary Best Price: $124.99 This edition collects all the epigrams attributed to Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemos...	Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World Best Price: $30.75 In this work, Professor Gager provides a catalog of curse tablets and binding spells from Europe...	Eros and Greek Athletics Best Price: $38.00 Scanlon, Thomas F. Eros and Greek Athletics. New York, New York. Oxford University Press,...	Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook Best Price: $10.00 This book is an important book in the study of ancient Greek and Roman magical practices and...	Tacitus' Annals (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature) Best Price: $65.45 Tacitus' Annals is the central historical source for first-century C.E. Rome. It is...

The Ancient Greek World (World in Ancient Times) Best Price: $24.99 Though this book was good in a lot of ways, it was not as complete as I had hoped it would. It...	Modeling Extinction (Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity) Best Price: $23.00 Developed after a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute on extinction modeling, this book comments...	Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt Best Price: $4.96 The tales of ancient Egypt have for centuries delighted and spurred the imagination of anyone...	Readings in Greek History: Sources and Interpretations Best Price: $30.00 An ideal reader for courses in Greek history, Greek civilization, and Western civilization, this...	Watch Out, Busy Bears! It's playtime at the Busy Bears' house! Join in their games and learn with them how easy...

Keys of Egypt Best Price: $36.78 From the Renaissance through 1824, numerous Europeans strove to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics....	From the Holy Mountain Best Price: $11.03 This is an account of William Dalrymple's tour in 1994 of the Middle East, from Mount Athos,...	The Formation of Christendom (Princeton Paperbacks)	Collins Gem Ancient Greece: From Drama and Democracy to Muses and Mythology Best Price: $3.12 From theater to politics, no single civilization has influenced the Western world more...	The Complete Illustrated Guide to Tai Chi: A Step-By-Step Approach to the Ancient Chinese Movement Best Price: $13.20 Beautifully illustrated throughout, this indispensable guide to Tai Chi provides a complete...

All of You was Singing 10 x 7 7/8", Colorfully illustrated by Ed Young. ALL OF YOU WAS SINGING is a rendering of...	Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages	The Atlas of Human History: 1st European Biths Greece and Rome: 4	Pro Lege Manilia	Basics Box (Very Short Introductions Boxed) These books give the reader a great introduction to some of the most fascinating topics known to...

Greek and Roman Historiography (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) Best Price: $54.86 Greek and Roman Historiography is a collection of important articles from the last thirty years...	Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (Classical Presences) Best Price: $102.53 This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a...	Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World Best Price: $44.89 In the 21st century, the culture of the aristocrat is largely a faded memory, and noble...	Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy Best Price: $45.60 Richard Bett presents a ground-breaking study of Pyrrho of Elis, who lived in the late fourth...	A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Oxford Reprints) Best Price: $25.53

Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean Best Price: $29.99 I've owned this book for over a year now and still find it indispensable (I have highlighted...	The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Volume II: The Decorations Best Price: $355.44 This volume is the second in a series of five on the Insula (city block) of the Menander at...	Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture Best Price: $94.99 It had always intrigued me how ancient Greek culture, cradle of Western civilization, compared...	The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? Best Price: $49.50 This is a thorough, well-researched and clearly argued book about the origins of agriculture. ...	Approaches to the Study of Attic Vases: Beazley and Pottier (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) Best Price: $86.62 This book examines the ways in which Attic painted vases were interpreted by Edmond Pottier...

Goths and Romans AD 332-489 (Oxford Historical Monographs) Best Price: $60.98 Even with a background in classical studies, I've always been much more interested in the...	The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens Best Price: $39.63 To be called a `sophist' is a bit of a slur. It implies that a person is clever but uses...	The Via Media of the Anglican Church The "Via Media" (middle way) represents a dialogue between the Evangelical Anglican,...	Ascetics and Ambassadors of Christ: The Monasteries of Palestine 314-631 (Oxford Early Christian Studies) Best Price: $34.25 In this book, Binns examines the monastic movement in Palestine during the Byzantine period,...	Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (Oxford Early Christian Studies) Best Price: $148.91 This book examines the late second century writings of Irenaeus and Clement. Writing before...

Qumran Grotte 4: XXII: Textes Aramï¿1/2ens, premiere partie 4Q529-549 (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert) Best Price: $270.00 This volume (in French) contains the editio princeps of the first part (4Q529-549) of the...	Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1800s to the 1980s (Short Oxford History of the Modern World) This is a study of China from the 1800s to the present day. It focuses on China's problems...	The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome Best Price: $49.55 Ah, so that's what it looked like; so that's where it fits! Visitors (in mind or fact)...	Pliny's Catalogue of Culture: Art and Empire in the Natural History (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation) Best Price: $31.61 One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's...	Roman Britain (Oxford Paperbacks) Best Price: $73.00 Every now and then an historical book comes along that changes the way one looks at history. ...

Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples 8000 BC-AD 1500 "Stretching from Iceland and North Africa, the peoples who live long the thousands of miles...	The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World Best Price: $8.60 This book does an excellent job of serving as a primer for studies of the ancient Greeks.	Gibbon (Past Masters) This is one of the finest volumes in the ' Past Masters' series. Burrow tells...	Stravinsky This critical study, by a leading authority on twentieth-century music, surveys the whole of...	Springboard 2: Student Book (Bk.2) Best Price: $14.50 Springboard is a two-level conversation and listening course organized around high-interest topics.

A Study of History, Vol. 2: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X Best Price: $13.99 Yes, Toynbee's point of view is a bit archaic. Yes, there are more detailed, more...	Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context Best Price: $17.70 I chose to write a report on this book for an introductory Hebrew Bible class. The book gave me...	Geology and Settlement: Greco-Roman Patterns Best Price: $92.77 This study explains the Greco-Roman urban form as it relates to the geological basis at selected...	Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition Hoffmeier has examined a broad range of material covering Egyptology, archaeology, linguistics,...	Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts Best Price: $27.95 A wonderfully entertaining book--part archaelogy, part detective novel-like, part art. Lavishly...

Lanscape and Society: Prehistoric Central Italy (Studies in Archaeology)	The Western Heritage, Volume C: Since 1789 (7th Edition) Best Price: $44.98 This authoritative book presents an engaging and accessible narrative account of the central...	Roman Art Best Price: $20.00 This book is an absolute gem! It is thorough and very educational yet quite readable and even...	The Heritage of World Civilizations, Volume B: From 1300 to 1800 (6th Edition) Best Price: $13.11 This comprehensive, accessible survey of world history has been extensively revised to provide...	The Heritage of World Civilizations: Volume One to 1700 (7th Edition) Best Price: $25.00 If you are on a budget as most student's are, considering buying this edition instead of the...

Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Sources in History, Volume 1 (6th Edition) Best Price: $37.88 It is nice to see history through the eyes of the people who lived it. I prefer the personal...	The Pyramids of Egypt: Revised Edition (Penguin Archaeology) Best Price: $86.41 It takes a few attempts to get through this book. I read it through about 3 times before I could...	Classical Mythology 7E, and Myths from Mesopotamia	Ancient Supplication Best Price: $13.50 This is the first book-length treatment of supplication, an important social practice in ancient...	Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities: The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene (American Classical Studies) Best Price: $73.95 Two Greek cities which in their time were leading states in the Mediterranean world, Selinus in...

Classical Olbia and the Scythian World: From the Sixth Century BC to the Second Century AD (Proceedings of the British Academy) Best Price: $46.99 The study of Olbia has always been set apart through the outstanding results of its excavations...	Early Village Life at Beidha, Jordan: Neolithic Spatial Organization and Vernacular Architecture: The Excavations of Mrs. Diana Kirkbride-Helbï¿1/2k (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology) Best Price: $270.00 This case study rigorously investigates village spatial organization and vernacular architecture...	Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine (Proceedings of the British Academy) Best Price: $47.10 This volume brings together studies by experts in the rabbinic literature of late antiquity and...	The Ages of Man: A Study in Medieval Writing and Thought Best Price: $165.38 A profoundly organic view of man in nature, the concept of "ages of man" made itself...	Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry This is an innovative and accessible study of contemporary Northern Irish poetry in the light of...

Studies in Lexicography Best Price: $119.98 This collection of essays, edited by the distinguished lexicographer Dr. Robert Burchfield,...	Kish Excavations, 1923-33	The Letters of the Younger Pliny (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.50 In high school I was an eager student of Latin, and so having read Caesar, Sallustius, Livius...	Herodotus: The Histories (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $28.02 Although they constitute less than perfect history from a modern scholarly standpoint, the...	Alexander the Great: The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History's Greatest Conqueror--As Told By His Original Biographers Best Price: $3.02 With an introduction by Michael Wood, who in the 1990s produced the BBC series In the Footsteps...

The Ancient Near East: A History Best Price: $30.00 Hallo and Simpson provide another choice to instructors of ancient Near Eastern history. Well...	Copan: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Maya Kingdom (Case Studies in Archeology) Best Price: $26.91 Copan is one of the great cities of the ancient Maya world, now in Honduras, and its spectacular...	Leucippe and Clitophon (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $14.88 These days there is a genre of romantic literature set in a romaticized, fictional Victorian...	Discourses on Livy (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $12.99 Niccolo Machiavelli, (1469-1527), writes the greatest treatise on keeping a republic vibrant by...	Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito (World's Classics) Best Price: $51.70 For teachers looking for something between a comprehensive collection of the dialogues and a...

Idylls (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $11.95 Theocritus was a bucolic poet and native of Syracuse who has often been credited, by both...	Basics Box (Very Short Introductions Boxed) These books give the reader a great introduction to some of the most fascinating topics known to...	Greek and Roman Historiography (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) Best Price: $54.86 Greek and Roman Historiography is a collection of important articles from the last thirty years...	Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (Classical Presences) Best Price: $102.53 This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a...	Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World Best Price: $44.89 In the 21st century, the culture of the aristocrat is largely a faded memory, and noble...

Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy Best Price: $45.60 Richard Bett presents a ground-breaking study of Pyrrho of Elis, who lived in the late fourth...	A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Oxford Reprints) Best Price: $25.53	Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean Best Price: $29.99 I've owned this book for over a year now and still find it indispensable (I have highlighted...	The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Volume II: The Decorations Best Price: $355.44 This volume is the second in a series of five on the Insula (city block) of the Menander at...	Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture Best Price: $94.99 It had always intrigued me how ancient Greek culture, cradle of Western civilization, compared...

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? Best Price: $49.50 This is a thorough, well-researched and clearly argued book about the origins of agriculture. ...

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