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The Archaeology of the Olympics: The Olympics and Other Festivals in Antiquity (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) Best Price: $8.78 The Archaeology of the Olympics presents a stirring reevaluation of the Olympic Games (and...	Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale Nota Bene) Best Price: $8.97 It baffles me the good reviews on this book as in the first chapter, the words, "PERHAPS,...	Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets Best Price: $5.94 The word "Antikythera" gleans > 500,000 Google hits -- well deserved for this...	Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician Best Price: $15.65 The dust jacket of Everitt's attractive biography quotes a perceptive English reviewer, who...	Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (Hinges of History) Best Price: $4.00 Many of us had our first and our only exposure to Greek culture and thought somewhere around...



The Echo of Greece Best Price: $6.58 I had pursued and read Ms. Hamilton's earlier volume "The Greek Way" based...	Letters of Themistokles (Monographs in Classical Studies)	Animals, Rights and Reason in Plutarch and Modern Ethics Best Price: $24.91 This groundbreaking volume explores Plutarch's unique survival in the argument that animals...	Hyperboreans: Myth and History in Celtic-Hellenic Contacts (Studies in Classics) Best Price: $80.00 In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north. Contained in...	Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece (Mentor) Best Price: $6.45 This arrangement and translation of the classic Græco-Roman myths is enjoyable, absorbing,...



Land and Labor in the Greek World (Ancient Society and History) Best Price: $135.36 What value did the Greeks put on farming beyond its capacity to produce food? Who owned the...	The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World Best Price: $22.99 "No one can fail to admire the brilliance of the connections Vidal-Naquet suggests......	Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece (Ancient Society and History) Best Price: $24.00 Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant...	Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes Best Price: $4.99 Eureka Man is, very broadly, three stories: The man and his milieu (mostly his milieu - see...	A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece (Kennikat classics series) This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book...

A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges Best Price: $21.50 Having been a student of Greek for five years, and having used other dictionaries, I find that...	Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology Best Price: $22.10 Despite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was produced by men, some important...	The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome) Best Price: $64.97 This is an excellent book about the Spartan system of educating young men (The Agoge). It looks...	Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 3: The Greek World, the Jews, and the East (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome) Best Price: $28.15 This volume completes the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's essays, which, together...	Place Names of Southwest Peloponnesus: Register and Indexes Best Price: $48.35 Place Names of Southwest Peloponnesus was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions...

ATHENS: A PORTRAIT OF THE CITY IN ITS GOLDEN AGE	Etruscan Mirrors: Archaic and Classical (Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum Great Britain 1, British Museum 1)~ (Vol 1) Best Price: $35.98 The British Museum houses one of the most important collections of Etruscan and Greek mirrors,...	Concordia: The Roots of European Thought	Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece Best Price: $130.00 If you would like to be first on your block to be able to explain coherently the early Spartan...	The Ancient Historians: Plutarch, Herodotus, Tacitus, Xenophon, Polybius, Josephus, Caesar, Cato, Livy, Sallust, Eusebius, Ammianus, Suetonius Best Price: $19.00 If Greece and Rome are held to be the cradles of Western civilization, this is in part due to...

The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the History of the Fifth Century Best Price: $70.00 The Emptiness Of Asia by Thomas Harrison (Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of St....	Death (Living Faiths) Best Price: $27.21 The Standing Conference on Inter-Faith Dialogue in Education was formed in 1973 to convene, or...	Greece (Great Civilizations) Best Price: $17.95	Visual Perversity: A Re-articulation of Maternal Instinct Best Price: $29.99 Euripides' Bacchae , Colridge's "Christabel," de Sade's Philosophy in the...	Greek Religion (New Surveys in the Classics No. 24) Best Price: $23.64 In this brief but highly informative book Jan Bremmer presents an outline of Greek religion in...

Herodotus Father of History (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints) Best Price: $13.00 Perhaps the most amazing thing about this book is how modern it seems for a scholarly monograph...	The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Creation of Their Past Best Price: $335.84 Carolyn Higbie uses an inscription of the first century BC from the Greek island of Rhodes to...	Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond (Oxford Studies in Byzantium) Best Price: $113.70 There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture who overturn the conventional concept of...	A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine: The Sources, Compilation, and Transmission of the Hippiatrica (Oxford Studies in Byzantium) Best Price: $121.57 I'm not one to normally shy away from a tough read, so when I ordered "A Byzantine...	The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (Oxford Handbook Series) Best Price: $116.00 Thank God I was introduced to real history and Greek history by Will Durant as a teenager. If...

Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry: Myth, History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC Best Price: $119.04 This collection of essays by notable scholars from a variety of disciplines deals with different...	Pindar and the Cult of Heroes (Oxford Classical Monographs) Best Price: $44.97 Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a...	A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109 Best Price: $51.98 This is the third and final volume (Vol. I 1991, Vol. II 1996) of a historical and literary...	Mycenaeans	Land and Labor in the Greek World (Ancient Society and History) Best Price: $135.36 What value did the Greeks put on farming beyond its capacity to produce food? Who owned the...

The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World Best Price: $22.99 "No one can fail to admire the brilliance of the connections Vidal-Naquet suggests......	Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece (Ancient Society and History) Best Price: $24.00 Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant...	Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes Best Price: $4.99 Eureka Man is, very broadly, three stories: The man and his milieu (mostly his milieu - see...	A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece (Kennikat classics series) This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book...	A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges Best Price: $21.50 Having been a student of Greek for five years, and having used other dictionaries, I find that...

Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology Best Price: $22.10 Despite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was produced by men, some important...	The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome) Best Price: $64.97 This is an excellent book about the Spartan system of educating young men (The Agoge). It looks...	Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 3: The Greek World, the Jews, and the East (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome) Best Price: $28.15 This volume completes the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's essays, which, together...	Place Names of Southwest Peloponnesus: Register and Indexes Best Price: $48.35 Place Names of Southwest Peloponnesus was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions...	Archaeology in Situ: Sites, Archaeology, and Communities in Greece (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) Best Price: $50.65 This volume explores the ways local communities perceive, experience, and interact with...

Ancient Greece Health and Disease (Changing Times) Best Price: $27.90	Archaeologiae Atticae Libri Septem Best Price: $24.48 Seven books of the Attick Antiquities, containing the description of the city's glory,...	Basil I, Founder of the Macedonian Dynasty: A Study of the Political and Military History of the Byzantine Empire in the Ninth Century Best Price: $118.99	Athenians and Their Empire Malcolm McGregor draws on a life-time of scholarship to write a comprehensive account of the...	Go Greek! (Crabtree Connections) Best Price: $5.03

The Rise of the Greeks Best Price: $69.95 Eminent author, historian and classical scholar illuminates the everyday world of the ancient...	Alexander the Great, Killer of Men Best Price: $2.95 The general story of Alexander is well known. After taking over from his dead father at the age...	The Anger of Achilles: Menis in Greek Epic (Myth and Poetics) Best Price: $53.98 Leonard Muellner?s goal is to restore the Greek word for the anger of Achilles, mênis, to...	The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World) Best Price: $32.52 Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of...	The Medieval Alexander Best Price: $52.69 Many books were written in the Middle Ages about Alexander the Great and still more books have...

Interstate Relations in Classical Greece: Morality and Power (Cambridge Classical Studies) Best Price: $40.26 In this book Dr Low explores the assumptions and principles which determined the conduct and...	Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: Tome 2 (French Edition) Best Price: $32.99 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1807 edition published in Paris.	Ancient Greece Resource Book (Sense of History) This is the teacher's supplement to the Key Stage 2 evaluation pack. Each pack contains...	Archaeology as Cultural History: Words and Things in Iron Age Greece (Social Archaeology) This book shows the reader how much archaeologists can learn from recent developments in...	Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume VII, Books 15.20-16.65 (Loeb Classical Library No. 389) Best Price: $22.42 Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80?20 BCE , wrote forty books of...

Euripides, VII, Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager (Loeb Classical Library No. 504) Best Price: $22.42 This new Loeb edition (Vol. 1) of Euripides' fragments released in 2008 is a gem of...	Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought. Best Price: $90.49 In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious,...	Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going On Together Best Price: $47.91 How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book...	Inventive Minds: Creativity in Technology Best Price: $50.00 technical skill activity invention for creitve thinking of middle school student	Aeschines and Athenian Politics Best Price: $52.95 Filling a major gap in scholarship, this is the first full-length study of the Athenian...

A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World Best Price: $12.18 David Sacks spent four years writing this clear and comprehensive compilation, and the results...	Spartan Women Best Price: $72.00 Sparta, which existed from 800 B.C. until A.D. 200, was renowned in the ancient world as a stoic...	CVA, Great Britain. Fascicule 18: The Glasgow Collections (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum) Best Price: $23.98 This second Scottish fascicule of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum makes accessible to researchers...	Greek and Roman Artillery Hb (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints) Best Price: $145.95 This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition,...	Xenophontis Opera Omnia: Tomus V: Opuscula (Oxford Classical Texts) Best Price: $41.97

The Decrees of the Greek States Best Price: $256.42 This book collects the evidence for decrees through which the states of the ancient Greek world...	A Historical Commentary on Diodorus Siculus, Book 15 (Oxford Classical Monographs) (Bk.15) Best Price: $218.27 Alexander the Great, was born on or around July 20, 356 B.C.E., and is my favorite personality...	A Commentary on Herodotus: With Introduction and Appendixes Volume 2 (Books V-IX) Best Price: $53.85 Herodotus, referred to by Cicero and others as "the father of history," was the first...	ANCIENT GREEK LAWS: A SOURCEBOOK.	The Exploits of Xenophon The Exploits of Xenophon is a great book. It was originally written 2,360 years ago by...

Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society (European Philosophy and the Human Sciences) My God. To think I bought it at a second hand bookshop 25 years ago! And I have just used it in...	Memories of Odysseus: Frontier Tales From Ancient Greece Best Price: $19.97 The conception of the Other has long been a problem for philosophers. Emmanuel Levinas, best...	The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity Best Price: $25.84 The religious transformations that marked late antiquity represent an enigma that has challenged...	Thucydides on Strategy: Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponesian War and Their Relevance Today (Columbia/Hurst) Best Price: $24.81 Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War...	Franchthi Cave and Paralia: Maps, Plans, and Sections, Fascicle 1, Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece Best Price: $24.24 "With the long-awaited publication of these three volumes we have the first thorough...

Demosthenes, Speeches 60 and 61, Prologues, Letters (Oratory of Classical Greece) Best Price: $14.65 This volume includes Demosthenes Funeral Oration and the spurious 'erotic' essay, as...	Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1: Greek History, 480-431 BC--the Alternative Version Best Price: $19.94 Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a...	Demosthenes, Speeches 1-17 (Oratory of Classical Greece) Best Price: $17.50 This is the fourteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of...	Alexander's Tomb: The Two-Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conquerer Best Price: $2.99 "The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great" (ISBN 978-1902699622) by Andrew Michael Chugg...	The World of the Ancient Greeks Best Price: $8.08 "The World of the Ancient Greeks" covers their history from the Paleolithic and...

The Complete World of Greek Mythology Best Price: $21.50 Somewhere amid the oodles of glossy photos of athlete-festooned kraters and oinochoes, I was...	The Greeks Overseas Best Price: $44.36 ?A masterly summary.?? The Times Literary Supplement The spread of Greek civilization through...	The Bronze Age Palace at Knossos: Plans and Sections (British School of Archaeology , Athens, Publications)	The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization, With a new preface and bibliographic essay Best Price: $24.94 The author of the book claims that the city-states of southern Greece were agrarian democracies...	Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece Best Price: $53.91 I bought this book as soon as it came out. I became a fan of S.I. Johnston as soon as I read her...

In the Footsteps of Alexander The Great: A Journey from Greece to Asia Best Price: $13.00 The story of Alexander The Great remains just as relevant today as it did when the...	Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (Hellenistic Culture and Society) Best Price: $15.92 For those who enjoy popular history, "Into the Land of Bones" presents a good...

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