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  • Aspects of Greek History 750-323BC

    A Source-Based Approach

    by Terry Buckley ...
    Series series Aspects of Classical Civilization
    Aspects of Greek History 750- 323 BC: A Source-Based Approach offers an indispensable introduction to the central period of Greek History for all students of classics, from pre-university to undergraduate level. Chapter by chapter, the relevant historical periods from the age of colonization to Alexander the Great are reconstructed. Emphasis is laid on the interpretation of the available sources, ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • A War Like No Other

    How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

    by Victor Davis Hanson ...
    One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other.Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation

    by Philip Matyszak ...
    This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and offers revealing insight into the people behind the myths.The Spartans of ancient Greece are typically portrayed as macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless, and impervious to pain. And indeed, they often lived up to this image. But life was not as simple as this image suggests. In truth, ancient ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of the Peloponnesian War

    by Thucydides ...
    Translated by Rex Warner ...
    'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom HollandThe long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the ancient Greek world into decades of war. Thucydides was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Landmark Thucydides

    A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War

    Edited by Robert B. Strassler ...
    Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta “a possession for all time,” and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, The Peloponnesian War is a mine of military, moral, political, and philosophical ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation

    by Philip Matyszak ...
    The author of Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation continues his revealing history of the Ancient Greek city-state in this chronicle of its decline and defeat.Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans became masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? In Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation, Philip ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of Athens

    The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization

    by Anthony Everitt ...
    A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and HadrianFilled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world—from the democratic revolution that marked its beginning, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • A New History of the Peloponnesian War

    by Donald Kagan ...
    A New History of the Peloponnesian War is an ebook-only omnibus edition that includes all four volumes of Donald Kagan's acclaimed account of the war between Athens and Sparta (431–404 B.C.): The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, and The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Reviewing the four-volume set in The New Yorker, George ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Spartan Way

    by Nic Fields ...
    "One of the best books about the ancient world I've ever read. . . . lively and informative." — Toy Solder & Model FigureFor a period of some 200 years, Sparta was acknowledged throughout the Greek world as the home of the finest soldiers—Xenophon called them "the only true craftsmen in matters of war." In this book, Nic Fields explains the reasons for this superiority, how their reputation for ... Read more

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  • The Peloponnesian War

    by Thucydides, P. J. Rhodes ...
    Translated by Martin Hammond ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The greatest historian that ever lived' Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c.460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Thucydides himself was a participant ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • On the Good Life

    by Cicero ...
    Translated by Grant Michael ...
    For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue - and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness. In essays that are articulate, meditative and inspirational, Cicero presents his views upon the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Selected Works

    by Cicero ...
    Translated by Michael Grant ...
    Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical style and strict sense of morality have been a powerful influence on European literature and thought for over two thousand years in matters of politics, philosophy, and faith. This selection demonstrates the diversity of his writings, and includes letters to ... Read more

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