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  • A Brief History of Ancient Greek

    de Stephen Colvin ...
    Series series Wiley Brief Histories of the Ancient World
    A BRIEF HISTORY OF Ancient GreekAttested since the fourteenth century BC, and still spoken today by over 10 million people, Greek has been one of the most influential languages in human history. English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic are among the many languages to have borrowed key terms and concepts from Greek.A Brief History of Ancient Greek takes the reader through the history of this ... Leer más

    $83.00 USD

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  • Introducing the Ancient Greeks

    From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

    de Edith Hall ...
    "Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, IndependentThe ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD

  • The Ingenious Language

    Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

    de Andrea Marcolongo ...
    Traducido por Will Schutt ...
    An Italian journalist pleads her case for learning ancient Greek in modern times.For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. Here are nine ways Greek can transform your relationship to time and to those around you, nine reflections on the language of Sappho, Plato, and Thucydides, and its relevance to our ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A Companion to Greek Mythology

    Edición de Ken Dowden, Niall Livingstone ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world.Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary expertsIncludes ... Leer más

    $46.00 USD

  • The Decipherment of Linear B

    de John Chadwick ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • I Think, Therefore I Am

    All the Philosophy You Need to Know

    de Lesley Levene ...
    Series Libro 7 - I Used to Know That
    Philosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated, whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's nobody around to hear it (Berkeley) or declaring that everything in the universe is in a state of flux (Heraclitus). But is philosophy really so complicated? And is it really as irrelevant as it sometimes seems? I Think, Therefore I Am is the ideal way to ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Ancient Greek Literary Letters

    Selections in Translation

    de Patricia A. Rosenmeyer ...
    Series series Routledge Classical Translations
    The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the basis of works of fiction, and the formal substructure for many kinds of poem.Patricia Rosenmeyer, an ... Leer más

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  • Ancient Greek Civilization

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $55.00 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ancient Greece

    Fascinating Facts About Greek History and Cultural Contributions

    de Audrey Nelson Ph.D., Eric Nelson ...
    The overwhelming influence of Ancient Greek culture on everything from science and literature to politics continues to be both relevant and hotly debated. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Ancient Greece, you are invited to meet the Ancient Greeks and to understand their legacy by entering their world. Profiles the most important contributions of Greek culture, including mythology, philosophy, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Herodotus

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Jennifer T. Roberts ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words; more narrowly, he determined to discover the causes of the wars between Greece and Persia and to explain them to his fellow ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Early Greece

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD