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The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments A groundbreaking reading of the Iliad that restores Homer's vision of the tragedy of war, by the bestselling author of The Bounty Few warriors, in life or literature, have challenged their commanding officer and the rationale of the war they fought as... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover 
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The Agricola: And the Germania by Cornelius Tacitus and Harold B. Mattingly and S. A. Hanford Publisher Comments Detailed historical accounts of the British Isles ("Agricola") and the virtues of the Germans ("Germania").... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson Publisher Comments One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History by James J Odonnell Publisher Comments The dream Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar shared of uniting Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East in a single community shuddered and then collapsed in the wars and disasters of the sixth century. It was a looking-glass world, where... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire by Alessandro Barbero Publisher Comments “A very readable narrative of one of the most significant battles in European history…An excellent resource.”—Booklist On August 9, 378 AD, at Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace (now western Turkey), the Roman Empire began... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hellenistic Age : a Short History (07 Edition) by Peter Green Publisher Comments The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity’s great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green’s remarkably far-ranging study covers the prevalent themes and events... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Spartacus War (09 Edition) by Barry Strauss Publisher Comments The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most famous slave rebellion in the ancient world, the fascinating true story behind a legend that has been the inspiration for novelists, filmmakers, and revolutionaries for 2,000 years. Starting with... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Publisher Comments For three decades in the fifth century B.C. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the world's most respected... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill Synopsis In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss Publisher Comments The Trojan War is one of history's most famous conflicts, a ten-year-long war waged over the beautiful Helen. For more than two thousand years this story has been a source of artistic inspiration. But is it true? In The Trojan War historian and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (Cambridge Illustrated History) by Paul Cartledge Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-374) and index.... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Penguin Classics #253: The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian And De Selincourt Publisher Comments Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's 'Campaigns of Alexander' is our best source of knowledge of the man and his deeds. Arrain had himself been a military commander, and his record of the exploits of the world's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome by Christopher Kelly Publisher Comments Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarianism. But, as the Romans of the fifth century knew, Attila did more than just terrorize villages on the edge of an empire. Drawing on original texts, this... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Black Athena the Afroasiatic Roots Volume 1 by Martin Bernal Publisher Comments What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Robert B. (edt) Strassler Publisher Comments From the editor of the widely praised Landmark Thucydides and Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of the Hellenika, the major primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. Hellenika covers the years... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome: Daily Life, Mysteries, and Curiosities by Alberto Angela Publisher Comments The roar of frenzied spectators inside the Coliseum during a battle between gladiators. A crowd of onlookers gathered around a slave driver. The wondrous plenty of banquets where flamingos are roasted whole and wine flows like rivers. The silence of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor Publisher Comments Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Alexander of Macedon, 356 - 323 B. C. : a Historical Biography (91 Edition) 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 $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Thermopylae : the Battle for the West (93 Edition) by Ernle Bradford Publisher Comments An impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (the Hot Gates) — a critical contest in Xerxes's massive invasion of Greece. The bloody stand made there by Leonidas and his small Spartan army in 480 B... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greeks by Humphrey Davy Kitto Synopsis The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for". Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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