Category: Ancient History

"Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure."

In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor illuminates the personal life and military conquests of this most legendary of men. Cantor draws from the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries combined with the most recent psychological and cultural studies to show Alexander as he was -- a great figure in the ancient world whose puzzli...
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Nature of Alexander

By: Alexander/Renault, Mary

Price: $3.50

Seller ID: 332591

ISBN: 039473825X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault, the author of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, two best-selling novels about Alexander.
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Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and other Contemporary Sources

By: Alfred

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dec-14

Seller ID: 287739

ISBN: 140444092

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Caligula: The Corruption of Power

By: Anthony A. Barrett

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: May-90

Seller ID: 450023

ISBN: 300046537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

By: Augustus/Everitt, A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oct-16

Seller ID: 114182

ISBN: 812970586

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

GODS OF OLYMPUS

By: BARBARA GRAZIOSI

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Picador Paper: Feb-15

Seller ID: 415945

ISBN: 1250062349

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

"AN ENGAGING INTRODUCTION TO A FASCINATING TOPIC . . . GRAZIOSI NARRATES THE MANY METAMORPHOSES OF THE GREEK GODS WITH HUMOR AND ERUDITION."--The Christian Science Monitor

The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws, they proved to be tough survivors, far outlasting their original worshippers. In Egypt, the Olympian gods claimed to have given birth to pharaohs; in Rome, they led respectable ci...
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Women & Power: A Manifesto

By: Beard, Mary

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 409997

ISBN: 1631494759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

By: Beard, Mary

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Jun-16

Seller ID: 412096

ISBN: 871408597

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

By: Beard, Mary

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 412111

ISBN: 1631494406

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Archimedes and the Door of Science (Living History Library)

By: Bendick, Jeanne

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 363913

ISBN: 1883937124

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jeanne Bendick, through text and pictures, admirably succeeds in bringing to life the ancient Greek mathematician who enriched mathematics and all branches of science. Against the backdrop of Archimedes's life and culture, the author discusses the man's work, his discoveries and the knowledge later based upon it. The simple, often humorous, illustrations and diagrams greatly enhance the text. Ages 10 and up.
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Marathon: The Battle That Changed Western Civilization

By: Billows, Richard A,

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 364185

ISBN: 159020168X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. is not only understood as the most decisive event in the struggle between the Greeks and the Persians, but can also be seen as perhaps the most significant moment in our collective history. 10,000 Athenian citizens faced a Persian military force of more than 25,000. Greek victory appeared impossible, but the men of Athens were tenacious and the Persians were defeated. Following the battle, the Athenian hoplite army ran 26.5 miles from Marathon to Athens to defend their port from the Persian navy. Although they had just run the great distance in heavy armor, t...
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A History of the Roman Republic

By: Bringmann, Klaus

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Polity: March 2007

Seller ID: 455715

ISBN: 0745633714

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this new and authoritative history of the Roman republic, distinguished historian Klaus Bringmann traces the rise of a small city state near the Tiber estuary into a power that controlled the Italian peninsula and created the final Empire of antiquity, an Empire that was to become both the most enduring in the ancient world and to have the most far-reaching consequences for posterity.

Whilst this book is chronologically organized, giving the reader a clear sense of the historical progress and dynamics of Roman republican history, it also offers a coherent and authoritative overview of th...
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