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The Silent Patient
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The Song of Achilles: The 10th Anniversary edition of the Women's Prize-winning bestseller
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Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favours the Brave
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Black Horse Odyssey: Search for the Lost City of Rome in China
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Honour's Mimic
We are alike, Kathy thought. You are a desperate one, too. She was incredulous that she could be so happy when it was so perfectly clear that the situation was...
Chariot of Knowledge
Discover the lost history of the Ancient Olympic Games. In popular belief, the Olympic Games were primarily a Greek invention. Yet, this perception covers a secret history that connects the...
Bosnia: A Short History
'Bosnia lies at the nodal point of the great historic civilisations and her history is difficult to write, because it needs several languages and a knowledge of very complicated events....
The Song of Achilles: Dyslexia Friendly Edition
Dyslexia-Friendly Edition using sans serif font printed with blue ink on cream paper. **OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD** WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A...
Dialogues and Essays
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Knossos
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Greece: Splendours of an Ancient Civilization
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Spartans: A New History
Spartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity. Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and...
Alexander the Great: Murder in Babylon
In the second half of the fourth century BC, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great created the largest empire the world has ever known. On 11 June 323 BC, in...
The Half Bird
One woman's solo sailing odyssey - from Land's End to the shores of Greece - explores the unexpected joy of solitude When Susan set sail from the south-west coast of...
Seventh-Century Popes and Martyrs: The Political Hagiography of
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This is the 2nd volume in the series Studia Antiqua Australiensia, produced within the Ancient History Documentation Research Centre, Macquarie University. This collection of Latin texts, published in a new...
Greek Architecture
This volume presents an extraordinary collection of images and covers the whole range of Greek architecture, from a thorough analysis of Minoan Crete-which marked the beginning of the history of...
Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late
The Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late Antiquity offers easily accessible introductions to the content and historical setting of the main writings of Greco-Roman paganism, early Judaism, and...
An Island Apart
It is the second largest Greek Island after Crete, but Evia - Euboea in Greek mythology, formerly Negropont to the British - remains almost unknown to tourists. Separated from the...
How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the
It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it...
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism The unexamined life is not worth living may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it...
Right Thing, Right Now: Timeless Stoic values from the
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - HOW TO HARNESS THE LIFE-CHANGING POWER OF INTEGRITY'A message all of us need to hear' Arnold Schwarzenegger'This book is a gift to humanity'...
Athenian Black Figure Vases
Athenian black figure vases bear the work of consummate artists, like Exekias, who depicted on them scenes of myth and everday life which deepen our knowledge and understanding of Greek...
Olympia: The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
In the northwestern corner of the great peninsula of the Peloponnese, close to the meeting point of the Cladeus and Alpheus rivers, lies a peaceful river valley overlooked by the...
The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements
Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the...
Tyrant
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Sicily 412 BC: the infinite duel between a man and a superpower begins. The man is Dionysius, who has just made himself Tyrant of Syracuse. The superpower Carthage, mercantile megalopolis...
Mr Wilder and Me
A wistful fictional love letter to old Hollywood and the films of Billy Wilder, moving from sunny Greece to a modern-day Britain, from one of our greatest British authors. A...
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
The luxury of the ancient world is legendary, but the Athenian reputation is sober because this wealthy, successful city-state spent all its money on the conspicuous consumption of ephemeral things....
Electra and Other Plays
A new translation by David Raeburn, with introduction and notes by Pat Easterling Sophocles' innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound...
Scabby Queen
'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...
Factology: Greek Myths: Open Up a World of Information!
Go back to when the Greek Gods ruled the world, and the bravest heroes fought the deadliest monsters! Considered some of the oldest and most famous stories ever told, this...
Understanding Greek Sculpture: Ancient Meanings, Modern Readings
The Discobolus, the Venus de Milo and the Parthenon frieze are sculptural masterpieces of worldwide renown. But our appreciation of them as "works of art", enshrined in museums, is far...
Greece: A Literary Companion
The book titled Greece: A Literary Companion by the author Martin Garrett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Strolling Through Athens
The book titled Strolling Through Athens by the author John Freely. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Studies in Ancient Technology: Volume III
"Studies in Ancient Technology" forms a series of books, each containing a number of essays on ancient technology, covering both the preclassical and classical period and demonstrating the continuity and...
Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study
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Provides illuminating answers to many questions: why did Sophocles develop character-drawing? How and why does it differ from that of Aeschylus? Why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and...
Chekhov Then and Now: The Reception of Chekhov in World Culture
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Since his death in 1904, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's works have had an enormous resonance in different cultures and fields of artistic activity. The essays in this volume examine the various...
Through Greek Eyes
A collection of translated extracts from Greek writers from Homer to Pausanias. The extracts are organised into chapters with a brief linking narrative under the following headings - War, The...
North of Ithaka: A Granddaughter Returns to Greece and Discovers Her Roots
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Eleni Gage, a young journalist living in New York, leaves her Manhattan flat to return to the remote but beautiful Greek village of Lia in northern Greece and rebuild her...
The Half-God of Rainfall
From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles , The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There...
The Olympic Games: Athens 1896-Athens 2004
Whether you are a stadium spectator or an armchair enthusiast, keep up with the action and drama at the 2004 Games. Packed with breathtaking sports photography, commentary and trivia-busting lists...
Cats of the Greek Islands Daybook
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Cats are ubiquitous in Greece's Cycladic Islands. They are never allowed inside family homes, but are nonetheless welcomed as fellow inhabitants. They are fed, cared for, but never pampered or...
Scabby Queen
'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better...
It's All Greek to Me: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins,
Welcome to our village. Meet Elpida, who cures bad backs with a raw egg and spells.Ajax the death-dealing butcher.Saint John the goat-headed saint . . . beautiful Eleni yearning for...
Wild Justice
This book, first full-length study of this often undervalued play, argues for a new appreciation of the power of its rhetoric, the subtlety of its characterization, and the beauty of...
Iris the Colorful: Volume 14
Iris has a rainbow of colorful experiences, from visiting the Underworld to conversing with her crush in this Goddess Girls adventure. Iris is the most colorful goddess girl at Mount...
Realms of the Round Table
Fully illustrated collection of rare and previously unpublished tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, retold for a new generation by leading Arthurian expert, John Matthews,...