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  • The Story of Athensby Phillip Harding

    Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 34.95

    A leading authority in the field, Phillip Harding here presents the very first English translations of the six Athenian writers known as the Atthitographers. more...

  • More Ketchup Than Salsaby Joe Cawley

    Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2007; US$ 10.99

    When Joe and his girlfriend Joy decide to trade in their life on a cold Lancashire fish market to run a bar in the Tenerife sunshine, they anticipate a paradise of sea, sand and siestas. This story talks about the morning-afters as well as the night-befores of life in a busy holiday resort. more...

  • Hellenistic Civilizationby Francois Chamoux

    Wiley 2008; US$ 166.95

    Spanning the period from Alexander the Great's accession to the throne in 336 BC to the defeat by Octavian of Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC, this volume provides a vivid account of the innovative civilization of the Hellenistic world. more...

  • The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Ageby Oliver Dickinson

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 38.95

    Following Oliver Dickinson?s successful The Aegean Bronze Age, this textbook is a synthesis of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries BC, and the rise of the Greek civilization in the eighth century BC. With chapter bibliographies, distribution maps and illustrations, Dickinson?s... more...

  • Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BCby John Buckler; Hans Beck

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 95.00

    Approaches fourth-century Greek history from the perspective of Thebes and neighbouring Phocis. more...

  • Alexander The Greatby James S. Romm; Diodorus; Plutarch

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2005; US$ 11.50

    Comprising relevant selections from the four ancient writers whose portraits of Alexander the Great still survive?Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius?this volume provides a complete narrative of the important events in Alexander's life. The Introduction sets these works in historical context, stretching from the conclusion of the Peloponnesian... more...

  • The Expedition of Cyrusby Xenophon; Robin Waterfield; Tim Rood

    Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 8.99

    The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the march of the Ten Thousand. The exploits of this famous army of Greek mercenaries in modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq were described by one of their leaders, the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon. Their long march, across mountains and plateaux to the sight of 'The sea! The sea!', back... more...

  • Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquityby Jas Elsner; Ian Rutherford

    Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 184.99

    The essays in this volume examine the range of pilgrimage practices in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the early Church. From healing to oracles, from collective civic delegations to individual pilgrims seeking salvation, from localized sacred topographies to empire-wide travel, this book shows the importance of pilgrimage in pagan antiquity and its ancestry... more...

  • Greece in the Making 1200¿479 BCby Robin Osborne

    Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 41.95

    Greece in the Making 1200?479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. The first edition of this book broke new ground by acknowledging that, barring a small number of archaic poems and inscriptions, the majority of our literary evidence for archaic Greece reported only... more...

  • Thucydidesby Perez Zagorin

    Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 21.95

    This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to matter today? Perez Zagorin answers this question by examining Thucydides' landmark History of the Peloponnesian War , one of the great classics of Western civilization.... more...