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Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama
Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath...
Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in chaotic times
Reasons Not to Worry is an accessible introduction to the Stoic principles of virtue, moderation and self-discipline, adapting this ancient knowledge to inspire practical advice for everyday life. We're all...
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'...
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
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In the 5th century BC an adventurous Ionian Greek, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, journeyed extensively through the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, from Egypt to Asia Minor, collecting tales of the...
The Figurine: The enchanting Sunday Times bestseller from the
THE GRIPPING NEW PAGE-TURNER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ADORED, MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER , THE ISLAND 'A beautiful, moving and thought provoking story, The Figurine is a stunning read ....
Historical Agency and the 'Great Man' in Classical Greece
The 'great man' of later Greek historical thought is the long product of traceable changes in ancient ideas about the meaning and impact of an individual life. At least as...
Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period: A Handbook
The quality of Greek painting and the intrinsic interest of the figure subjects chosen for depiction were never greater than in Athens in the fifty years following the invention of...
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....
Euripides: Medea
This edition presents Medea, the most famous play of the Athenian tragedian Euripides, in ancient Greek, with commentary designed for university Greek classes, from second-year Greek upward. It helps students...
Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2: Selected Texts in
Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic...
Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law
Throughout the twelve essays that appear in Ex Oriente Lex, Raymond Westbrook convincingly argues that the influence of Mesopotamian legal traditions and thought did not stop at the shores of...
Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece
In addition to their famous gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks also worshiped deceased human beings, including child and baby heroes. Although these heroes played an essential role in Greek...
Pindar's Poetics of Immortality
Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who...
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'Another tiger-golden day lay ahead of us. It was as though England...
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more...
Being Happy
'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly' Being Happy contains all of the extant writing by Epicurus - one of the most...
The Shadow King: The brand new 2023 historical epic about Alexander
334 BC. Alexander the Great is just twenty-one years old when he sets out with a small army to challenge Persia, the largest and most powerful empire in the world....
The History of the Peloponnesian War
A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A definitive and refreshingly readable new translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War , paired with a brilliant introduction on how to...
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...
Pindaric Metre: The 'Other Half'
Pindar is one of the greatest Greek poets, but while the metre of half of his poems is easy to grasp, that of the other half has so far remained...
Restoring the Inner Heart: The Nous in Dostoevsky's Ridiculous Man
Written close to the end of the great writer's life, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man tells of a transformation of the heart and a journey...
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...
In Depth Guide to the Unspoiled Greek Islands
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The book titled In Depth Guide to the Unspoiled Greek Islands by the author Anne Merewood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
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.
DK Greek Islands
Be inspired and plan your next unforgettable trip with DK travel guides Make your trip to the Greek Islands extraordinary Watching the sun set from the iconic cliffs of Santorini....
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...
Introducing Aristotle
He established logic as a systematic discipline, conceived the earliest rules of science, developed a rational psychology, a political science and an outline of sociology, and gave us a virtue...
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 Liars
Two sisters. One missing girl. An island full of secrets...An atmospheric and tense thriller from an exciting voice in psychological suspense I haven't been back to Eos since I first...
The Philosophical Stage: Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens
A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinking. The Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama...
Strategies of Argument: Essays in Ancient Ethics, Epistemology, and
This volume features fifteen new papers by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on new work in ancient Greek and Roman ethics, epistemology, logic,...
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...