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LUCIAN: SELECTED DIALOGUES
LUCIAN
Translated By C D N COSTAList Price: £9.99
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You Save: 51%Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment. His influence was immense, not only in the Greek world, but on later European writers suc... Learn More -
ONOMATOLOGOS
Studies in Greek Personal Names Presented to Elaine MatthewsR W V CATLING, F MARCHAND and M SASANOW
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You Save: 73%Onomatologos is a term used in later antiquity to describe eminent lexicographers such as Hesychius and Pollux as ‘collectors of words’. It is here used as the title for a major volume of papers i... Learn More -
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE GODS
Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic IdealDAVID CONSTANTINE
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You Save: 51%In the seventeenth century a succession of travellers journeyed to Greece and what is now Turkey and rediscovered the Hellenic world, decisively switching the focus and taste in the West from Rome to ... Learn More -
MARCUS AURELIUS: MEDITATIONS
(Unabridged audio)Read by DUNCAN STEEN
£11.95One of the most significant books ever written by a head of State, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121–180). Covering issues such as... Learn More -
ANCIENT NEAR EAST
The BasicsDANIEL C SNELL
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You Save: 64%A survey of the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great's conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, t... Learn More -
GARDENS OF POMPEII
ANNAMARIA CIARALLO
£8.50A study of Pompeiian frescoes reveals that the Vesuvian landscape of 79AD included a vast and beautiful variety of fauna and flora. This profusely illustrated volume combines botanical images depicted... Learn More -
ATTICA
Intermediate Classical Greek: Readings, Review and ExercisesCYNTHIA L CLAXTON
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You Save: 59%Effective as either a primary or secondary textbook, this volume simultaneously offers a Greek grammar review and an introduction to primary texts. Through comprehensive exercises, extensive explanato... Learn More -
BATTLING THE GODS
Atheism in the Ancient WorldTIM WHITMARSH
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You Save: 51%In the bracing, combative air of ancient Athens, scepticism was fully formed and spoiling for a fight. But history is written by those who prevail, and so the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity ... Learn More -
THE FORMATION OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION
An Archaeological PerspectiveKWANG-CHIH CHANG, XU PINGFANG et al
Edited By :SARAH ALLAN
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You Save: 47%Paleolithic sites from one million years ago, Neolithic sites with extraordinary jade and ceramic artifacts, excavated tombs, temples and palaces of the Shang and Zhou dynasties -- all these are part ... Learn More -
THE ARCH OF CONSTANTINE
Inspired by the DivineIAIN FERRIS
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You Save: 53%Next to the Colosseum in Rome stands the Arch of Constantine. Completed AD 312-315, it was built to celebrate ten years of the Emperor Constantine’s reign and his victory at the Battle of the Milvia... Learn More
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