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  • Greek and Roman Education

    A Sourcebook

    by Mark Joyal, J.C Yardley, Iain McDougall ...
    Series series Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
    Modern western education finds its origins in the practices, systems and schools of the ancient Greeks and Romans. It is in the field of education, in fact, that classical antiquity has exerted one of its clearest influences on the modern world. Yet the story of Greek and Roman education, extending from the eighth century B.C. into the Middle Ages, is familiar in its details only to relatively few ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • History of Western Philosophy

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, it is 'long on wit, intelligence and curmudgeonly ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • History of Western Philosophy

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Hailed as “lucid and magisterial” by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy.Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly unique exploration of the ideologies of significant philosophers throughout the ages—from Plato and Aristotle ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

    Edited by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray ...
    A comprehensive view of the ancient Greek world, its history and its achievements. The legacy of the Hellenistic world is vast--it ranges from architecture to philosophy, literature, and the visual arts to military strategy and science. This authoritative study covers the period from the eighth century BC, which witnessed the emergence of the Greek city-states, to the conquests of Alexander the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Alcibiades

    by P. J. Rhodes ...
    The renowned classicist presents an authoritative biography of one of the most infamous and colorful characters of Ancient Greece.A charismatic Athenian and close associate of Socrates, Alcibiades came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War when he helped form an alliance against Sparta. Although his gambit led to defeat, his prestige remained high, and he was elected to lead the Sicilian ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Greek Civilization

    by David Sansone ...
    A concise narrative of Greek history and an analysis of the literature, art, and thought of the ancient Greeks.Tells the story of Greek civilization from the from the Minoan Period to the time of the Byzantine EmpireSurveys the remarkable culture and history the ancient GreeksExplores the ways in which Greek civilization has been continually reinvented from antiquity to the present dayUpdated ... Read more

    $55.00 USD

  • The Classical Greeks

    by Michael Grant ...
    The story of the Athenian Golden Age by one of the world's pre-eminent classical historians.The Golden Age of ancient Greek city-state civilization lasted from 490 to 336 BC, the period between the first wars against Persia and Carthage and the accession of Alexander the Great. Never has there been such a multiplication of talents and genius within so limited a period and Michael Grant captures ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

    by Diogenes Laertius

    by Diogenes Laertius, Pamela Mensch ...
    Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow. This rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • Battling the Gods

    Atheism in the Ancient World

    by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Thebes

    The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    The riveting, definitive account of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, by the acclaimed author of The Spartans—now in paperbackAmong the extensive writing available about the history of ancient Greece, there is precious little about the city-state of Thebes. At one point the most powerful city in ancient Greece, Thebes has been long overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta. In ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Early Greece

    by Oswyn Murray ...
    Now available in ebook format.Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilisation which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt – a culture whose achievements in the fields of art, science, philosophy and politics were to establish ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE

    by Jonathan M. Hall ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the Ancient World
    A History of the Archaic Greek World offers a theme-based approach to the development of the Greek world in the years 1200-479 BCE.Updated and extended in this edition to include two new sections, expanded geographical coverage, a guide to electronic resources, and more illustrationsTakes a critical and analytical look at evidence about the history of the archaic Greek WorldInvolves the reader in ... Read more

    $46.00 USD