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The Basics eBook Series

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  • Greek History: The Basics

    by Robin Osborne ...
    Series series The Basics
    Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age to rule by Rome.With a chapter on each crucial period of Greece’s ancient history, the book covers the key topics, approaches and issues at the heart of Greek History, including:• The invention of politics and the rise of democracy• The central role played by the Greek ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD

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  • The Wisdom Of The Ancients: (A Series Of Mythological Fables) (Mobi Classics)

    by Francis Bacon ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apology

    by Plato ...
    Translated by Benjamin Jowett-054trl ...
    In what relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence of Socrates, there are no means of determining. It certainly agrees in tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted 'if in any moderate degree he would have conciliated the favour of the dicasts;' and who informs us in another passage, on the testimony of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Alexander the Great

    by Philip Freeman ...
    In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror.The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history. He was a general of such skill and renown that for two thousand years other great leaders studied his strategy and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Unending Mystery

    A Journey Through Labyrinths ansd Mazes

    by David W. McCullough ...
    According to legend, anyone who wandered into the labyrinth in Ancient Crete never came out again. Some labyrinths may have offered patterns for an erotic spring dance. Those on the floors of Medieval cathedrals represent mathematical perfection–and walking their paths was a symbolic approach to the divine. From ancient Mediterranean coin patterns to the great French cathedral labyrinths to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Classical Primer

    Ancient Knowledge for Modern Minds

    by Dan Crompton ...
    Didn't take Classics at school? Or maybe you've forgotten most of what you once knew? To save you looking it up, Classics is the study of the culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and takes in all aspects of their life and learning - from the languages to literature, philosophy, art, and much more besides. A Classical Primer is an accessible and enjoyable look back at classical civilization; ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • On Greek Religion

    by Robert C.T. Parker ...
    Series Book 60 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    "There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes historic artwork depicting each of the Seven Wonders and pictures of some of the ruins.*Discusses the history and mysteries surrounding each of the Seven Wonders.*Includes ancient accounts describing the Seven Wonders.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading about each of the Seven Wonders.*Includes a Table of Contents.I have gazed on the walls of impregnable Babylon along which ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • On the Natural Faculties

    by Galen ...
    The Ancient Greeks and Romans were among the first civilizations to show sophistication in the science of medicine, and Galen of Pergamon (129-199/219 A.D.) was the most knowledgeable physician of antiquity. A Greek born in modern day Turkey at the height of the Roman Empire, Galen was a physician, surgeon, and philosopher, writing at length about anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology and ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Collected Papers on Alexander the Great

    by Ernst Badian ...
    Professor Ernst Badian (1925-2011) was one of the most influential Alexander historians of the twentieth century. His first articles on the subject appeared in 1958, and he continued for a full fifty years to reshape scholarly perception of the reign of Alexander the Great. A steady output of articles was reinforced by lectures and reviews in his own formidable style. Badian's earliest work ... Read more

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  • A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives

    by David Stuttard ...
    The first book to tell the Greek story through the interconnecting lives of the men and women who shaped its politics and literature, its science and philosophy, its art and sportThe political leaders, writers, artists, and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilization, whose legacy can be found everywhere today. But who were these people, ... Read more

    $32.19 CAD

  • Aeropagiticus (Illustrated Edition)

    by Isocrates ...
    Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Golden Age of Athens. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato but it was influential in its time and attracted students from across the Greek world. Of his hundred pupils the most ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD