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  • The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy

    Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States

    by Alain Bresson ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A revolutionary account of the ancient Greek economyThis comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world's leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with innovative new approaches grounded in recent ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

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  • The Lost Empire of Atlantis

    History's Greatest Mystery Revealed

    by Gavin Menzies ...
    "MENZIES [IS] PROPOUNDING ONE OF THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY." — New York Times MagazineNew York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that "the lost city of Atlantis" was not only real but also at the heart of a highly advanced global empire that reached the shores of America before being violently wiped ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

    Complete

    by Plutarch ...
    Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The History of Pyrrhus

    by Jacob Abbott ...
    Pyrrhus was a Greek general and statesman of the Hellenistic era. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house (from c. 297 BC), and later he became king of Epirus and Macedon. He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome. Some of his battles, though successful, cost him heavy losses, from which the term Pyrrhic victory was coined.Pyrrhus and his campaign in Italy ... Read more

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  • A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths

    by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    The book leads the reader through these vibrant stories, from the origins of the gods through to the homecomings of the Trojan heroes. All the familiar narratives are here, along with some less familiar characters and motifs. In addition to the tales, the book explains key issues arising from the narratives, and discusses the myths and their wider relevance.This long-overdue book crystallises ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • In Defense of Thomas Jefferson

    The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal

    by William G. Hyland ...
    "[Hyland's] approach to the alleged Jefferson-Hemings relationship is ingenious and he has made what I judge to be an irrefutable case." ―Professor Forrest McDonald, History Professor Emeritus, University of Alabama, and National Endowment for the Humanities, 16th Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, author of The Presidency of Thomas JeffersonThe belief that Thomas Jefferson had an affair and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Classical Debt

    Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity

    by Johanna Hanink ...
    Ever since the International Monetary Fund’s first bailout of Greece’s sinking economy in 2010, the phrase “Greek debt” has meant one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who claim to prize culture over capital, it means something quite different: the symbolic debt that Western civilization owes to Greece for furnishing its principles of democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Aesopic Conversations

    Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose

    by Leslie Kurke ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • The Mind of Thucydides

    by Jacqueline de Romilly ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings ...
    Series Book 62 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly's Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving rhetorical and aesthetic analysis. Ahead of its time in its sophisticated focus upon the verbal texture of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Textual Rivals

    Self-Presentation in Herodotus’ Histories

    by David Branscome ...
    Textual Rivals studies some of the most debated issues in Herodotean scholarship. One such is Herodotus’ self-presentation: the conspicuousness of his authorial persona is one of the most remarkable features of his Histories. So frequently does he interject first-person comments into the narrative that Herodotus at times almost becomes a character within his own text.Important issues are tied to ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Global Intellectual History

    Edited by Samuel Moyn, Andrew Sartori ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Memories of the Future

    On Countervision

    Edited by Stephen Wilson, Deborah Jaffé ...
    Series Book 6 - Cultural Memories
    What is a memory of the future? Is it a myth, a fiction of a severed arm, a post-human debate or a broken time machine? In an increasingly insecure future-world there is an urgency to consider and debate these questions. Memories of the Future: On Countervision addresses these concerns by speculating on the connections between memory and futurity in fields such as counter-histories, women’s ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD