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Ancient Greek Lawsby Ilias Arnaoutoglou
Routledge 1998; US$ 37.95Ilias Arnaoutoglou explores the significance of legislation in ancient Greece, the differences and similarities between ancient Greek legislation and legislators and their modern counterparts. more...
Money and the Early Greek Mindby Richard Seaford
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophyby A. A. Long
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 33.00The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with the Presocratics, a group whose influence has been incalculable. more...
Oresteiaby Aeschylus; Peter Meineck; Helene P. Foley
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 10.95Winner of the American Translators Association 2000 Lewis Galantière Award. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of The Aquila Theatre Company, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Ancient Studies, New York University and teaches Greek Drama at the Tisch School for the Arts. more...
Alexander the Greatby Philip Freeman
Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 9.99In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history. He was a general of such skill and renown that for two thousand years other great leaders studied his strategy and tactics, from Hannibal to Napoleon, with countless more in between. He flashed across the sky of history like a comet, glowing brightly and burning out quickly: crowned at age nineteen, dead by thirty-two. He established the greatest empire of the ancient world; Greek coins and statues are found as far east as Afghanistan. Our interest in him has never... more...
Apologyby Plato; Benjamin Jowett
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99This historically renowned oration was presented by Socrates in his own defense after he had been formally accused of corrupting the youth of Athens. It is not an apology in the traditional sense of expressing remorse for one's actions; rather, Socrates' Apology (recorded by his faithful student and protege Plato) is a succinct and compelling defense of the brilliant philosopher's worldview, lifestyle, and teaching methods. A rewarding read for fans of philosophy and supporters of... more...
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of Ancient Greek Mythologyby Michael Ford
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 9.49Heroes, Gods and Monsters in Ancient Greek Mythology' is a collection of classic archetypal Ancient Greek myths, including the stories of Jason, Perseus, Odysseus, Heracles, Oedipus and Theseus, and many more dark and delirious, famous Ancient Greek myths. These stories, which have had a great influence on thinkers throughout the centuries, inform popular culture even today. Here they are told as if by a fireside storyteller, detailing the horrific perils these heroes faced. A historical in... more...
Hippocrates' Womanby Helen King
Routledge 2002; US$ 42.95Hippocrates' Woman presents an arresting study of the origins of gynaecology, an exploration of how the interior workings of the female body were understood and the influence of Hippocrates' theories on the gynaecology of subsequent ages. more...
Greek Thought, Arabic Cultureby Dimitri Gutas
Routledge 1998; US$ 44.95Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient Greek culture to the Middle Ages. more...
Atlantis Destroyedby Rodney Castleden
Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95Fired by the imagination a new vision of Atlantis has arisen over the last one hundred and fifty years as a lost utopia. Rodney Castleden discusses why this picture arose and explains how it has become confused with Plato's genuine account. more...









