Category: Ancient History

For almost three decades at the end of the fifth century B.C., Athens and Sparta fought a war that changed the Greek world and its civilization forever. A conflict unprecedented in its brutality, the Peloponnesian War brought a collapse in the institutions, beliefs, and customs that were the foundations of society. Today, scholars in fields ranging from international relations and political and military history to political philosophy continue to study the war for its timeless relevance to the history of our own time. Now Donald Kagan, classical scholar and historian of international rela... View more info

Travels with Herodotus

By: Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS: 5/29/2013

Seller ID: 9781400078783

ISBN: 1400078784

Condition: USED

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad - perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India - the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' "Histories" in tow, Kapuscins... View more info

First Century

By: Klingaman, William K

Price: $5.00

Publisher: HARPER COLLINS: 9/16/2016

Seller ID: 9780060921279

ISBN: 0060921277

Condition: USED

An engrossing popular history of the major events and people at the time of Jesus, the Roman Empire, and the Han Dynasty. View more info

First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western

By: Lacey, James

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Publisher: BANTAM DELL:

Seller ID: 9780553385755

ISBN: 0553385755

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"A compelling and provocative read . . . With a soldier's eye, Jim Lacey re-creates the battle of Marathon in all its brutal simplicity."--Barry Strauss, author of "Masters of Command" Marathon--one of history's most pivotal battles. Its name evokes images of almost superhuman courage, endurance, and fighting spirit. In this eye-opening book, military analyst James Lacey takes a fresh look at Marathon and reveals why the battle happened, how it was fought, and whether, in fact, it saved Western civilization. Lacey brilliantly reconstructs the world of the fifth century B.C. leading up to ... View more info

Year 1000: What Life was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium

By: Lacey, Robert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: LITTLE BROWN & CO INC: 8/17/2011

Seller ID: 9780316511575

ISBN: 0316511579

Condition: USED

As the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World was About to End. Actually, it was Only the Beginning... Welcome to the Year 1000. This is What Life was Like. How clothes were fastened in a world without buttons, p.10 The rudiments of medieval brain surgery, p.124 The first millennium's Bill Gates, p.192 How dolphins forecasted weather, p.140 The recipe for a medieval form of Viagra, p.126 Body parts a married woman had to forfeit if she committed adultery, p.171 The fundamental rules of warfare, p.154 How fried and crushed black snails could... View more info

Disclosing the Past

By: Leakey, Mary

Price: $5.00

Publisher: 7/17/2017

Seller ID: 0385189613

ISBN: 0385189613

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Roman Civilization: Selected Readings, Vol. 1: The Republic and the Augustan Age

By: Lewis, Naphtali

Price: $20.00

Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR:

Edition: 3

Seller ID: 9780231071314

ISBN: 0231071310

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Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold's "Roman Civilization" is a classic. Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1955, the authors have undertaken another revision which takes into account recent work in the field. These volumes consist of selected primary documents from ancient Rome, covering a range of over 1,000 years of Roman culture, from the foundation of the city to its sacking by the Goths.The selections cover a broad spectrum of Roman civilization, including literature, philosophy, religion, education, politics, military affairs, and economics. These English translati... View more info

Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 1-5)

By: Livy

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Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP:

Seller ID: 9780140448092

ISBN: 0140448098

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With stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy's monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the establishment of the Republic and its internal struggles, up to Rome's recovery after the fierce Gallic invasion of the fourth century B.C. Livy vividly depicts the great characters, legends, and tales, including the story of Romulus and Remus. Reprinting Robert Ogilvie's lucid 1971 introduction, this highly regarded edition now boasts a new preface, examining the text in light of recent Livy schola... View more info

Early History of Rome

By: Livy

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Seller ID: 9780140441048

ISBN: 0140441042

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Loeb Classical Library Reader

By: Loeb

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Publisher: HARVARD UNIV PR: 7/17/2017

Seller ID: 9780674996168

ISBN: 067499616X

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This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity s major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive reporting, satire, and fiction giving a glimpse at the wide range of arts and sciences, thought and styles, of Greco-Roman culture. The selections span twelve centuries, from Homer to Saint Jerome. The texts and translations are reproduced as they appear in Loeb volumes. The Loeb Classical Library(r) is the only existing series of books which, through original text and facing English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and ... View more info

Neolithic

By: McCarter, Susan Foster

Price: $11.50

Publisher: ROUTLEDGE CHAPMAN HALL:

Seller ID: 9780415364140

ISBN: 0415364140

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This excellent introductory textbook describes and explains the origins of modern culture the dawn of agriculture in the Neolithic area. Written in an easy-to-read style, this lively and engaging book familiarises the reader with essential archaeological and genetic terms and concepts, explores the latest evidence from scientific analyses as varied as deep sea coring, pollen identification, radiometric dating and DNA research, condensing them into an up-to-date academic account, specifically written to be clear even the novice reader. Focusing primarily on sites in southwest Asia, Neo... View more info

Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs: How to Read the Secret Language of the Pharaohs

By: McDermott, Bridget

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Seller ID: 9780811832250

ISBN: 0811832252

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For beginners and Egyptologists alike, reading hieroglyphs provides fascinating insights into the land and lore of the pyramids. Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs is the only fully illustrated, easy-to-use guide to the meaning and mystery behind this ancient language. A history of hieroglyphs and instructions for how to read them are complemented by vocabulary lists and photographs of real inscriptions. In each chapter, skill-building exercises weave together with details of Egyptian life. Who could have imagined that the sign for the word "millions" is a lizard because Egypt was once overrun with... View more info

Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods

By: Meeks, Dimitri

Price: $6.50

Publisher: CORNELL UNIV PR:

Seller ID: 9780801482489

ISBN: 0801482488

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This is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of wonderment at divine doings, it treats the ancient Egyptian gods as if they were an ethnic group that captured the fancy of ethnologists or sociologists.The book begins with a discussion of the gods' community as a society unto itself. The authors describe the structures of the society of the gods and some of the conflicts that frequently upset it, with individual gods acting to protect their own positions in an established hierarchy and struggling to gain power ove... View more info

Petroglyphs: Ancient Language, Sacred Art

By: Moore, Sabra

Price: $6.50

Publisher: 6/17/2017

Seller ID: 9781574160116

ISBN: 1574160117

Condition: USED

Sabra Moore offers a treasury of faithful artistic renderings of ancient native art from all regions of the North American continent. Accompanying her drawings are descriptions designed for the general reader that provide information on the location of each work of art; the culture from which it came; and what is known about its significance and meaning for the people who created it. The images include animals and objects, humans, hybrid human-animal forms, symbols, calendars and star markers, and celestial beings incised in caves, on cliffs and boulders, on artifacts, and even under water. Th... View more info

Assassination Of Julius Caesar: A People's History Of Ancient Rome (New Press Pe

By: Parenti, Michael

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Publisher: NEW PR:

Seller ID: 9781565849426

ISBN: 1565849426

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Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. In "The Assassination of Julius Caesar," Michael Parenti presents us with a story of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth. As he carefully weighs the evidence concerning the murder of Caesar, Parenti sketches in the background to the crime with fascinating detail about wider Roman society. In these pages we find reflections on the democratic struggle waged by Roman commoners, religious augury as an instrument of social control, the patriarchal oppression of w... View more info