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Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe Publisher Comments The captivating "history" of the figure of Orpheus, his enduring legacy as the force and muse of creation itself. For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover 
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World of Late Antiquity : A.D. 150-750 (71 Edition) by Peter Brown Publisher Comments These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Russian empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near... (read more) List Price $23.65 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chariots of the Gods by Erich Von Daniken Publisher Comments Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance — the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 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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Penguin Classics #253: The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian Publisher Comments ‘His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable’ Although written over four hundred years after Alexander’s death, Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Landmark Herodotus: the Histories (09 Edition) by Robert B. Strassler Staff Pick This brilliant translation by Andrea Purvis is copiously illustrated and fully documented with maps, footnotes, side notes, and appendices from 21 prominent classical scholars. Not just a book, but a journey.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham Publisher Comments A special illustrated edition of Hiram Bingham's classic work captures all the magnificence and mystery of the amazing archeological sites he uncovered. Early in the 20th century, Bingham ventured into the wild and then unknown country of the Eastern... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ideas of Slavery From Aristotle To Augustine (96 Edition) by Peter Garnsey Publisher Comments A unique and comprehensive account of attitudes to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World by Beate (edt) Dignas Publisher Comments Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World examines how religious and historical memory was fashioned, distorted, preserved, or erased in ancient societies - and what wide-ranging effects these actions had on the historical process. The volume... (read more) Your price: $153.95 New - Hardcover
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Histories (98 Edition) by Herodotus Publisher Comments "The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in the classics. Compelled by his desire to "prevent the... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.00 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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End of the Bronze Age (93 Edition) by Robert Drews Publisher Comments The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Landscape, Ethnicity, Identity in the Archaic Mediterranean Area by Gabriele Cifani Publisher Comments The main concern of this volume is the multi-layered concept of ethnicity. Contributors examine and contextualise contrasting definitions of ethnicity and identity as implicit in two perspectives, one from the classical tradition and another from the... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $63.95 New - Trade Paper
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Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine by Scott Korb Publisher Comments What was it like to live in the time of Jesus? What did people eat? Whom did they marry? How did they keep themselves clean? What did their cities and towns look like? What did they believe? The answers, it turns out, are surprising. This simple question... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Egyptians by Cyril Aldred Publisher Comments Ancient Egypt may have been, to paraphrase Herodotus, "the gift of the Nile", but Egypt's civilization was no less the product of her god incarnate, the pharaoh. These twin themes -- the overwhelming importance of the annual inundation of the Nile and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Diodorus Siculus, Volume VIII, Books XVI 66-XVII (63 Edition) by Diodorus Siculus Publisher Comments Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ancient Maya (6TH 06 Edition) by Robert J. Sharer Publisher Comments This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Making of Late Antiquity (93 Edition) by Peter Brown Publisher Comments Peter Brown presents a masterly history of Roman society in the second, third, and fourth centuries. Brown interprets the changes in social patterns and religious thought, breaking away from conventional modern images of the period.... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ancient Persia by Josef Wiesehofer Publisher Comments Of all the great civilizations of the ancient world, that of Persia is one of the least understood. Josef Wiesehöfer's comprehensive survey of the Persian Empire under the Achaeminids, the Parthians, and the Sasanians focuses on the primary Persian... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ancient Egypt (97 Edition) by David P. Silverman Publisher Comments 'The ancient Egyptians lived in a remarkable culture that created some of the world\'s most beautiful art and architecture. It was a land where Pharaoh was the monarch of the entire world, the living emodiment on Earth of the god Horus, son of Osiris... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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