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Greek Myths
The Greek myths are timeless classics, whose scenes and figures have captivated us since ancient times. The gods and heroes of these legends hold up a mirror to the human …
The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece
With an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity, the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down …
Aristotle's Politics
One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. For almost three decades, Carnes …
Secret History
By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' "The Secret History" destroyed forever that emperor's reputation as …
Ancient Egypt
Comprising a unique collection of primary sources, this book critically examines several topics relating to ancient Egypt that are of high interest to readers but about which …
Smell and the Ancient Senses
From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell—a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic—has played a pivotal role in western culture and …
Greek To Us
Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us ‘hypocrite’; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally …
Olympiska spelen: de första tusen åren
Idrotten är idag kanske det mest levande arvet från antiken. Alla känner till de olympiska spelen, och många utövar själva en sport som har sina rötter bland forntidens greker. Men …
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World
This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and …
The House of Hades: The Graphic Novel (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)
FROM THE WORLD OF PERCY JACKSON The fourth novel in Rick Riordan’s best-selling Heroes of Olympus series – now as a graphic novel!Lost in the depths of the Underworld, Percy and …
The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261–1453
The Byzantine Empire, fragmented and enfeebled by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, never again recovered its former extent, power and influence. Its greatest revival came when the …