General Books


The Persian Wars, I: Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library) Best Price: $19.00 Reading the Greek texts in the original is quite rewarding, especially since classical Greek is...	Warfare in Ancient Greece: Arms and Armour from the Heroes of Homer to Alexander the Great Best Price: $19.38 In this first comprehensive study of Ancient Greek warfare for over 35 years, Tim Everson...	Early Times: The Story of Ancient Greece Best Price: $15.93 We're home schoolers, and my daughter and I used this book as part of her fifth-grade ancient...	Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectives Best Price: $37.95	Early Christianity and Greek Paidea Best Price: $4.34 If you're familiar with Werner Jaeger then you'll appreciate this little book. Composed of just...



A Guide to Greek Traditions and Customs in America Growing up in a small Greek Church and not having any Greek school, I did not learn all the...	Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period : A Handbook (World of Art) Best Price: $11.31 This is another John Boardman book covering Greek Art. This style starts during the late 6th...	The Cyclades: Discovering the Greek Islands of the Aegean Best Price: $8.96 We're just back from a sailing vacation in the Cyclades, and brought this book along for...	Plato : Parmenides (Focus Philosophical Library) Best Price: $6.06	The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology Best Price: $22.45 As a student in Universit? Laval in Qu?bec city (Canada), my teachers usually recommand books in...



Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra Best Price: $10.46 The scholar or academic may find this book quite engaging -- I'm just an amateur mathematician...	Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture (Ancient Cultures) Best Price: $34.23 Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture is the first comprehensive survey of ancient Greek and...	Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge Best Price: $29.94 This is exactly the textbook that students of Western Esotericism has been waiting for....	Greek and Roman Architecture in Classic Illustrations Best Price: $10.02 If you are interested in classical architecture and/or ornament, this is a truly spectacular...	Plato's Progeny: How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind (Classical Inter/Faces) (Classical Inter/Faces) Best Price: $11.49 Excellent book, but it's not about Plato or Socrates per se. Rather, it does a really good job...

A Sourcebook on the Roman Games (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History) (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History) Best Price: $26.99 This sourcebook presents a wealth of material relating to every aspect of Roman spectacles,...	Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction Best Price: $26.91 As part of my curriculum in Indo-European religions, I was assigned to read this book. The book...	Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present Best Price: $22.45 There are a number of reviews listed here that praise the work of Marvin Carlson. I feel that...	Sparta Best Price: $10.95 The picture which most people have of Ancient Greece is pretty much the picture painted by the...	Ancient Greece (EYEWITNESS WORKBOOKS) Best Price: $5.97 Perfect for getting ahead at school or just stimulating children's interest, this groundbreaking...

Greece (Dictionaries of Civilization) Best Price: $15.91 This gorgeously illustrated, compact volume considers the entire civilization of ancient Greece,...	Civilization Before Greece and Rome Best Price: $14.73 The title pretty much sums it up. Saggs tells us stuff we never would have thought about...	World of Parmenides Best Price: $29.28 Popper's love of the presocratics stems from his hatred of hubristic epistemology, especially as...	Plato and Xenophon Apologies (Focus Philosophical Library) Best Price: $5.00	Macedonian Warrior: Alexander's Elite Infantryman (Warrior) Best Price: $2.57 The text is adquate, but it's pretty hard to forgive sub-par illustration in an Osprey title. ...

Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo (Cliffs Notes) Best Price: $1.89 These four dialogues cover time surrounding the execution of Socrates. As he was charged, tried,...	Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (The Gifford Lectures) Best Price: $39.20 I found this book very helpful in getting clear on the key controversies in stoic philosophy of...	The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans (A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. 1) Best Price: $33.00 One of the truly remarkable intellectual achievements of our time, Guthrie's magisterial six...	A History of New Testament Lexicography (Studies in Biblical Greek) Best Price: $39.95 I confess Ancient Greek Lexicography is an area of interest for me, so my review is biased. I...	The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans (A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. 1) Best Price: $33.00 One of the truly remarkable intellectual achievements of our time, Guthrie's magisterial six...

The Greek Way of Death Best Price: $17.95	Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World Best Price: $17.81 The era of late antiquity--from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth--was...	The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025 Best Price: $18.00 An excellent book for someone who wants to gain an understanding of the Empire and what drove...	The Aristotle Adventure: A Guide to the Greek, Arabic, & Latin Scholars Who Transmitted Aristotle's Logic to the Renaissance Best Price: $19.95 I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. The desire to understand is intrinsic...	Philosophic Classics, Volume I: Ancient Philosophy (4th Edition) (Philosophic Classics) Best Price: $31.59 I don't usually like anthologies and rarely teach from them -- I tend to prefer a primary text...

The Architecture of the Roman Empire, Volume 1: An Introductory Study, Revised Edition (Yale Publications in the History of Art) Best Price: $28.80 Although the book is titled an itroductory study, I would not reccomend to anyone start a...	Aristotle: Athenian Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. Virtues and Vices. (Loeb Classical Library No. 285) Best Price: $22.87 I read this book for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Aristotle's further elaboration in...	Greek Realities: Life and Thought in Ancient Greece Best Price: $19.90 I've got a bookshelf of both new and old Greek history, historical novels, even historical...	Introducing Plato, New Edition (Introducing (Icon)) Best Price: $5.27 The book is great at giving a feel for who the whole of Plato was as a person. The book is not...	Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul Best Price: $34.31 This book studies the processes conventionally termed "Romanization" through an...

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Blackwell Guides to Great Works) Best Price: $30.90 I read this book for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. I think Aristotle's ethics is his most...	The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World Best Price: $184.14 I am a retired professor of Classics. My speciality was ancient Greek and Latin poetry, not...	Cults, Territory, and the Origins of the Greek City-State Best Price: $17.35 This is an incredibly important book for scholars interested in the formation of the polis. Not...	Etruscan Art (World of Art) Best Price: $10.00 In spite of it's modest dimensions and only 216 pages, this book gives a rather exhaustive...	One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love (New Ancient World Series) Best Price: $31.62 Halperin's book highlights the absurdity of social constructionism. If homosexuals first...

Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery Best Price: $27.01 Pompeii Awakened is not quite what I'd expected it to be. Having recently seen the Pompeii...	Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World Best Price: $12.40 This book has given me the incredible desire to take the rest of my life and do nothing except...	The Appian Way: From Its Foundation to the Middle Ages (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum) Best Price: $23.25 Enhanced with the breathtakingly beautiful color photography of Franco Mammana and expertly...	The Greek and Persian Wars 499-386 BC Best Price: $3.55 Number 36 in the Osprey "Essential Histories" series, this account of about a hundred...	Greek Art A&I (Art and Ideas) Best Price: $12.88 Includes the favorites and a new turn to the subject by adding lesser known artwork. For the...

The Architect, or Practical House Carpenter (1830) Best Price: $11.14 The Architect, or Practical House Carpenter (1830) Very useful research text and a great...	Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World Best Price: $48.46 All thru Italy I took pictures of the floors, I hope to make them into quilts. This book is an...	The African Origin of Greek Philosophy:: An Exercise in Afrocentrism Best Price: $18.99 Here is another books of reason, that would make Mary Lekowi"tz say ?y Veh!; How one...	Euripides: Medea (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy) (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy) Best Price: $13.04 Euripides' Medea is one of the greatest and most influential Greek tragedies. This book outlines...	The Trial and Execution of Socrates: Sources and Controversies Best Price: $21.40 This is a great book. Required for my class. You can probably find this book a few bucks...

Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty Best Price: $34.81 This book will probably only be of interest to students of philosophy who already have a...

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