Ancient History
Ancient History
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A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Provocative military historian Victor Davis Hanson has given painstakingly researched & pathbrea...Read more
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The Rock Art of Texas Indians
In The Rock Art of Texas Indians, Kirkland's meticulous watercolor copies of this rich and diversifi...Read more
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Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabi...Read more
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Pompeii: Public and Private Life
Pompeii's tragedy is our windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic st...Read more
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The Histories
One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the "Histories" describes how a small and quarrelso...Read more
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The Histories
During the fifth century BC, a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city-states united to repel a mig...Read more
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The History (Great Minds)
Herodotus of Halicarnassus was born about 484 BCE & died some 60 years later. He traveled over m...Read more
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The Histories
Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of...Read more
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The Histories
Book by Herodotus...Read more
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The Histories
s/t: New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, CommentariesThis Norton Critical Edition offers an in...Read more
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The Histories
Herodotus is not only the father of the art and the science of historical writing but also one of th...Read more
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The History
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculi...Read more