Category - History
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The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age o...
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Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A comprehensive narrative history of the ancient world's center, from its founding to its modern rediscoveryThe oracle and sanctuary of the Greek...
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The Gods of Olympus: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or jus...
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Parallel Lives Vol. 1
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, ar...
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Religion and the Greeks
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /No area of Greek life was wholly untouched by religion, and a basic knowledge of this aspect of life is essential to anyone seeking a proper unde...
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The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the ...
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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of th...
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The Histories: Introduction by Rosalind Thomas
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Herodotus is not only the father of the art and the science of historical writing but also one of the Western tradition's most compelling storyte...
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The Antikythera Mechanism: The History and Mystery of the Ancient World's Most Famous Astronomical Device
PaperbackOriginal price $11.14 - Original price $11.14Original price $11.14$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /*Includes pictures *Chronicles the discovery and theories over the mechanism's origins and capabilities *Includes footnotes, online resources and...
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The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus through the Mediterranean and Middle East, examining Herodotus's 2,5...
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Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /"The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time. Neither scholarship nor semi-fictional biography will ever be the same ...
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The Library, Books 16-20: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Successors
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Starting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in EuropeThe Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily is one of our...
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Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The so-called first war of the twenty-first century actually began more than 2,300 years ago when Alexander the Great led his army into what is n...
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The History / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of histor...
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Thermopylae: Great Battles
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The story of Thermopylae, the battle that helped define the identity of the ancient Greeks: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and wh...
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Greek Mythology: A Guide to Greek Gods, Goddesses, Monsters, Heroes, and the Best Mythological Tales
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /GREEK MYTHOLOGY Greek mythology is a collection of stories handed down from generation to generation throughout Greece. Starting in Ancient Greec...
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The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The Iliad, Homer's epic tale of the abduction of Helen and the decade-long Trojan War, has fascinated mankind for millennia. Even today, the war ...
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The Iliad (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The Iliad describes the events of the ten-year siege of the city of Troy, by a coalition of Greek states. The story unfolds during a quarrel betw...
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Minoans: The Bronze Age Civilization of Ancient Greece
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The Minoans were the first advanced civilization in Europe. They appeared on Crete around 4,000 years ago and thrived for 1,500 years before myst...
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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life." So the fif...
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The Greeks and the Irrational
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /2020 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Using the analytical m...
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The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War...
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The Archidamian War / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first te...
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The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Winner of the New Scholars Book Award from the American Educational Research Association Debates continue to rage over whether American universit...
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