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The Hellenistic Age: A Short History (Modern Library Classics) by Peter Green Publisher Comments The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquitys great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Greens remarkably far-ranging study covers the prevalent themes and events of those... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides Publisher Comments Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Historical Atlas of Greece, the Penguin by Robert Morkot Publisher Comments Charting topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, the Persian Wars, the Golden Age of Athens, and the conquests of Alexander the Great, the atlas traces the development of this creative and restless people and assesses their impact not only on the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Empire of Atlantis: The Secrets of History's Most Enduring Mystery Revealed by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments The astonishing true story of Atlantis In 1500 B.C. a supervolcano beneath the Greek island of Santorini exploded in a near-apocalyptic eruption. Buried beneath the rubble and waves was the world’s most remarkable lost civilization. . . . New York... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton Publisher Comments "Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics by Neil Faulkner Publisher Comments What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B.C.? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us to... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Courtesans and Fishcakes : the Consuming Passions of Classical Athens (97 Edition) by James Davidson Publisher Comments Part One Eating There was a banquet and people were talking and, as so often in accounts of banquets at this period, Socrates was there. The topic was language: the origin of words and their true meanings, their relationships with other words. In... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Marathon: The Battle That Changed Western Civilization by Richard A Billows Publisher Comments Published to coincide with Marathon's 2500th anniversary, a riveting history of the historic battle The Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. is not only understood as the most decisive event in the struggle between the Greeks and the Persians, but can also be... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization by Jim Lacey Publisher Comments Marathon—one of history’s most pivotal battles. Its very name evokes images of almost superhuman courage, endurance, and fighting spirit. But until now, the story of what happened at Marathon has been told exclusively through the narrow... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor Publisher Comments Weapons of biological and chemical warfare have been in use for thousands of years, and Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs, Adrienne Mayor's exploration of the origins of controversial weaponry, draws extraordinary connections between the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture (Paideia, the Ideals of Greek Culture) by Werner Jaeger Publisher Comments Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of... (read more) List Price $85.50 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor Publisher Comments "A comprehensive look at WMD's antecedents, from flamethrowers of the Peloponnesian War to plague-bearing booby traps.... Rich and entertaining." -Newsweek Featuring a new introduction by the author. Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age: From Alexander to Cleopatra by James A Evans Publisher Comments The Hellenistic world, ushered into existence in 323 b.c.e. through the conquests of Alexander the Great, stretched from India in the east to Sicily in the west. Within this vast region, society was multicultural, but the dominant culture was that of the... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography by Peter Green Publisher Comments Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore "the hinges of history," Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining-and historicallyunassailable-journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going on Together by Josiah Ober Publisher Comments "This book is an inspiring achievement for both historians and citizens. A model of how to study antiquity, "Athenian Legacies" provides hope for the future of democratic practice and culture. It lays out clearly and concisely the political and ethical... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price: $26.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Greek and Roman Lives (Dover Giant Thrift Editions) by Plutarch Publisher Comments Plutarch's biographies of Solon, Pericles, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Cicero, and others form a brilliant social history of the ancient world. This rich collection reveals the character and personalities of Greece and Rome's most influential figures... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greeks by H. D. F. Kitto Publisher Comments Most ancient cultures disappeared with scarcely a trace, their effect upon our modern way of life of little consequence. The Greeks, however, continue to influence contemporary man through their drama, philosophy and art, their political cognizance and... (read more) List Price $19.96 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins by Ted Lendon Publisher Comments Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens victorious Ten Years War (431– 421 BC) against grim Sparta—the first decade of the terrible Peloponnesian War that turned the Golden Age of Greece to lead. Historian J.E. Lendon presents a... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale Nota Bene) by Thomas Martin Publisher Comments In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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