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The Threshold of Democracy re-creates the intellectual dynamics of one of the most formative periods in Western history. In the wake of Athenian military de...

This Third Edition Of 'the Trial And Death Of Socrates' Presents G. M. A. Grube's Distinguished Translations, As Revised By John Cooper For 'plato, Complete...

In 480 B.C., a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae to march on Greece, intending to conquer the...

surveying Greek History And Civilization, This Examines Such Topics As The Minoans And Mycenaeans, City-states, Wars With Persia, Imperial Athens, Alexander...

epictetus Was Born Into Slavery About 55 Ce In The Eastern Outreaches Of The Roman Empire. Once Freed, He Established An Influential School Of Stoic Philo...

The ancient Greeks set out from their mountainous land at the end of the Balkan peninsula to colonize and settle almost all the Mediterranean and Black Sea...

Comprising relevant selections from the four ancient writers whose portraits of Alexander the Great still survive -Arrian, Diodorous, Plutarch, and Quintus ...

The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a country poor in resources and di...

Contains A Study Of Ancient Egypt, Greece, And Rome From 3200 B.c. To 600 A.d. And Discusses The Art, Architecture, Philosophy, Literature, And Religious Pr...

paul Cartledge, One Of The World’s Foremost Scholars Of Ancient Greece, Illuminates The Brief But Iconic Life Of Alexander (356-323 Bc), King Of Macedon, ...

The Road to Sparta is the story of the 153-mile run from Athens to Sparta that inspired the marathon and saved democracy, as told—and experienced—by ul...

An excerpt from the preface by the writer, Professor E. Mylonas - Director of the Excavations at Mycenae."Thirty years of excavation have brought about the ...

This Is A Unique And Comprehensive Introduction To The Ancient Mediterranean And Its Three Major Civilizations, Egypt, Greece, And Rome. It Reveals A Fascin...

Written By Four Leading Authorities On The Classical World, Here Is A New History Of Ancient Greece That Dynamically Presents A Generation Of New Scholarshi...