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By: Herodotus/Grene
Price: $6.00
Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR:
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 9780226327723
ISBN: 0226327728
Condition: USED
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past. In his "History," the war between the Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and all the more general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are seen as a unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a child lived through the last of the great acts i... View more info
By: Hesiod
Price: $5.00
Seller ID: 0872201791D
ISBN: 0872201791D
Condition: USED
By: Hesiod
Price: $5.00
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR: 4/18/2017
Seller ID: 9780199538317
ISBN: 019953831X
Condition: USED
This new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on these two works by one of the oldest known Greek poets. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy and account of the struggles of the gods, and the Works and Days offers a compendium of moral and practical advice for a life of honest husbandry. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's com... View more info
By: Hesiod
Price: $4.00
Seller ID: 9780192839411
ISBN: 0192839411
Condition: USED
This new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on these two works by one of the oldest known Greek poets. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy and account of the struggles of the gods, and the Works and Days offers a compendium of moral and practical advice for a life of honest husbandry. View more info
By: Horace
Price: $8.50
Seller ID: 0199120013
ISBN: 0199120013
Condition: USED
By: Hornung, Erik
Price: $4.00
Publisher: CORNELL UNIV PR:
Seller ID: 9780801485152
ISBN: 0801485150
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Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were to be discovered more than two millennia later in royal tombs. Erik Hornung, the world's leading authority on these religious texts, surveys what is known about them today.The contents of the texts range from the collection of spells in the Book of the Dead, which was intended to offer practical assistance on the journey to the afterlife, to the detailed accounts of the hereafter provided in the Books of the Netherworld. Hornung looks closely at these latter works, while summarizing ... View more info
By: Howarth, David
Price: $5.00
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP: 11/5/2014
Seller ID: 9780140058505
ISBN: 0140058508
Condition: USED
By: Hoyle, Fred
Price: $3.00
Publisher: 1/21/2017
Seller ID: 0716703637
ISBN: 0716703637
Condition: USED
By: Hunter, C. Bruce
Price: $5.00
Publisher: UNIV OF OKLAHOMA PR: 11/5/2009
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 0806119926
ISBN: 0806119926
Condition: USED
Since the publication of the first edition of this work, it has become the standard guide for serious travelers to the great Maya sites of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. In this expanded and updated edition C. Bruce Hunter offers an introduction to the culture and history of the Maya, taking into account the most recent discoveries and theories about their origins, rise to greatness, and fall. He then takes the reader on a tour through their magnificent cities and ceremonial centers.Each site is presented in the light of current excavations and restorations and illuminated by stunning ... View more info
By: Jacq, Christian
Price: $4.00
Publisher: SOUVENIR PR:
Seller ID: 9780285634626
ISBN: 0285634623
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Folklore, temple and tomb paintings, and hieroglyphic texts are drawn upon to explore the potent and pervading legacy of magic and ritual in ancient Egypt, a legacy that has survived to the present day. To the Egyptians, magic was an exact science with rules that were necessarily observed to placate the gods, ensure good fortune, cure the sick, and guarantee a safe passage through the underworld. This book provides insight into the full meaning of rituals that were designed to ensure health and happiness, preserve life, and smooth the moments of passage -- birth, marriage, death, and the conti... View more info
Price: $11.00
Publisher: CREATESPACE:
Seller ID: 9781494861995
ISBN: 1494861992
Condition: USED
Price: $3.00
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP: 7/30/2013
Seller ID: 9780140441246
ISBN: 0140441247
Condition: USED
By: Josephus
Price: $5.00
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP: 10/1/2012
Seller ID: 9780140444209
ISBN: 0140444203
Condition: USED
By: Kagan, Donald
Price: $7.50
Publisher: 7/8/2010
Seller ID: 9780670032112
ISBN: 0670032115
Condition: USED
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
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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
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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
By: Konemann
Price: $9.00
Seller ID: 9783895089138
ISBN: 3895089133
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By: Kord, Scott
Price: $7.50
Publisher: RIVERHEAD:
Seller ID: 9781594485039
ISBN: 1594485038
Condition: USED
What was it like to live in the time of Jesus? What did people eat? Whom did they marry? How did they keep themselves clean? What did their cities and towns look like? What did they believe? The answers, it turns out, are surprising. This simple question is not so simple after all. With a historian's insight and a reporter's curiosity, Scott Korb gives us a backstage pass to the unexpected and sometimes down-and-dirty truth about what everyday life was like in first-century Palestine, that tumultuous era when the Roman Empire was at its zenith and a new religion-Christianity-was born... View more info
By: Lacey, James
Price: $5.00
Publisher: BANTAM DELL:
Seller ID: 9780553385755
ISBN: 0553385755
Condition: USED
"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
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