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 The Landmark Herodotus: The HistoriesBest Price: $22.99 I got interested in Herodotus because of the movie "The 300." This is the real story. ... |  The Histories (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.75 I found this translation eminently readable. While I agree that the use of endnotes rather than... |  The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.95 If Herodotus is the Father of History, Thucydides is the first truly great historian. Building... |  Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International)Best Price: $8.39 Kapuscinski reports on the people and political culture of the third and fourth worlds( the... |  The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian WarBest Price: $11.50 This edition of Thucydides is really excellent. There are maps and/or images of artifacts on... |
 A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and CultureBest Price: $34.65 Ok I love this text. I used this and its sister text on Romans for my ancient history classes. I... |  The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.64 Don't be put off by the antiquity of this book, its a fascinating look at the tremendous heights... |  The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek LivesBest Price: $7.90 Through 9 Greek Lives (Theseus, the democracy builder; Aristides, the `Spartan' Athenian;... |  Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (Hinges of History)Best Price: $6.99 Fourth in the Hinges of History series, following up on the Jews (The Gifts of the Jews:... |  The Histories (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $3.76 What amazed me about this book was Herodotus'curiosity and lack of ethnocentrisism. Herdotus... |
 The Republic (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.80 My intent is not to bog down the reader with a lot of drivel. This is one of the better... |  The Landmark ThucydidesBest Price: $28.25 You should buy the hardcover book and not the paperback edition of this book. The paperback... |  The Complete World of Greek MythologyBest Price: $26.36 Somewhere amid the oodles of glossy photos of athlete-festooned kraters and oinochoes, I was... |  Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural HistoryBest Price: $42.14 Wow, what a masterpiece! I started my self-conducted study of ancient Greek history with a... |  Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest PoliticianBest Price: $6.00 This is a splendid biography of Cicero. The book is exceptionally well-written, its clarity a... |
 The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient GreeceBest Price: $10.61 Sure, maybe Penguin waters things down a bit to much but when it comes to reading complicated... |  The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest ScientistBest Price: $7.18 The format chosen by the two authors of this book is that they each wrote alternating chapters.... |  The Campaigns of Alexander (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.35 Alexander the Great was already a historical figure and "larger than life" character... |  The Archaeology of Greece: An IntroductionBest Price: $19.95 I used this book in my first classical archaeology course as an undergraduate, and later to... |  The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius (Viking Portable Library)Best Price: $5.77 Dont be confused by the relatively low ranking, this book is good. The only trouble is that it... |
 Four Plays: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae (Focus Classical Library)Best Price: $11.66 I found all 4 plays in this book easy to read & easy to get into...this book was awesome... |  The HistoryBest Price: $8.75 Having had a couple years of Greek in college (just enough to be dangerous) I have to say... |  The Greek WayBest Price: $6.50 Edith Hamilton, graecophile supreme, published this summary of life and culture in fifth- and... |  The Peloponnesian WarBest Price: $5.04 The Peloponnesian War is one of the first true world wars, as the Greek city-states covered the... |  A History of Western Philosophy: The Classical Mind, Volume I (History of Western Philosophy)Best Price: $67.16 I have been reading philosophy for a long time now and occasionally, when I talk about it to my... |
 The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.50 While The Persian Expedition is not Xenophon's original title, it perfectly captures the balance... |  From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle EastBest Price: $10.79 As a seminary student, I had been exposed to many of the groups Dalrymple visited during his... |  Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle (Readings in the History of Philosophy)Best Price: $10.08 For a teacher willing to present his or her own analysis of the period, but looking for an... |  Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient MediterraneanBest Price: $20.00 I've owned this book for over a year now and still find it indispensable (I have highlighted and... |  The Oxford History of Greece & the Hellenistic WorldBest Price: $10.00 Whether you're a newcomer to Greek history or someone who has already studied diverse segments... |
 These Were the GreeksBest Price: $18.45 This book is one of the books that, through vivid detail and scattered pictures, allows the... |  Thermopylae: The Battle For The WestBest Price: $5.00 As I was strolling through the book store and couldn't find a book that suited me for my school... |  Alexander the Great: The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History's Greatest Conqueror--As Told By His Original BiographersBest Price: $2.00 The idea is to cut-and-paste segments from classical biographers into a relatively cohesive... |  The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical GreeceBest Price: $11.98 This study of Greek hoplite warfare explains the infantry practices of the remote past with... |  Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical AntiquityBest Price: $7.18 The author does provide good information on the status of women in the ancient world, but has... |
 Plato : Phaedrus: A Translation With Notes, Glossary, Appendices, Interpretive Essay and Introduction (Focus Philosophical Library)Best Price: $6.36 _I have heard some call this work a confused jumble of unrelated concepts. These people just... |  Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and RomeBest Price: $15.71 This is a superb introduction to ancient warfare and can serve as a springboard for further... |  The Greco-Persian WarsBest Price: $14.00 This is a good, solid, and necessarily, given the nature of our sources, Athenocentric account... |  The Greeks: History, Culture, and SocietyBest Price: $46.71 Textbooks have, deservedly, a bad reputation. Morris and Powell have written a textbook that is... |  War and the IliadBest Price: $6.95 Simone Weil was one of the transcendent geniuses of our time. The archetypal... |
 The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient GreeceBest Price: $8.94 The mythology of the Spartans, from their political and cultural organization, to their... |  On Sparta (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.13 Amidst all the contemporary historical deconstructionist prattling over the Spartans, the views... |  Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford History of Art)Best Price: $16.00 Archaic and Classical Greek Art is good supplementary reading if you're into art history or... |  The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient GamesBest Price: $4.05 I've never been a sports fan, so I thought I might find this book rather a bore. But in fact... |  Syracuse 415-413 BC: Destruction of the Athenian Imperial Fleet (Campaign)Best Price: $10.41 When I first learned of the Osprey book, I was amazed a the detials and information they... |
 A History of My Times (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.99 Xenophon's History of My Times picks up roughly where Thucydides left off. After finishing the... |  The Peloponnesian WarBest Price: $10.00 It is always difficult and challenging to pick up what is regarded as a classic and read through... |  MythologyBest Price: $8.99 This book made me want to fall asleep! Just like some other reviewers, I don't suggest reading... |  Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $4.22 Plutarch in his "Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans" written around 100 C.E.,... |  Thermopylae 480 BC: Last stand of the 300 (Campaign)Best Price: $11.91 I have bought this book (and it is not my first on the battle at Thermopylae or the... |
 The Trojan War: A New HistoryBest Price: $5.71 For centuries the established wisdom has held that the Trojan War is pure myth, a heroic... |  Alexander the Great: Son of the GodsBest Price: $10.29 Easy to read and go thru without all the dryness of a lot of history books. I would highly... |  The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Penguin Classics, L286)Best Price: $6.99 This is a wonderful book. The translations by Prof. Scott-Kilvert are lively and interesting,... |  Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding FathersBest Price: $12.99 This lively and engaging book is the only popular work to explore the profound impact of Ancient... |  Greek LivesBest Price: $5.29 Unfortunately, nowadays, we have many people and countries claiming that Alexander the Great and... |
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