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• Author(s): Donald Kagan • Publisher: Cornell UP • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian ...

• Author(s): Robert Morkot • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see also Travel - Maps & Road AtFrom the Back CoverThe cradle of western civilization, Ancient Greece was a land...

• Author(s): Dennis D. Hughes • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Death & DyingNumerous ancient texts describe human sacrifices and other forms of ritual killing: in 480 BC Themistocles sacrifices three P...

• Author(s): William R. Biers • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceWilliam R. Biers wrote The Archaeology of Greece to introduce students, teachers, and lay readers to the de...

• Author(s): Jean-Pierre Vernant • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceIn this groundbreaking study, Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece. Myth and Soc...

• Author(s): Frederick S. Paxton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Greece

• Author(s): Spencer Nigel • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceTime, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology is an innovative volume which examines the relevance of archaeological theory to classical ...

• Author(s): Stephen Hodkinson | Anton Powell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient And ClassicalIn the past twenty years the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spart...

• Author(s): Donald Kagan • Publisher: Penguin Group USA Inc. • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Group USA Inc. • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceFor three decades in the fifth century b.c. the ancient world was torn apart bya conflict that was as dramatic, div...

• Author(s): Jack L. Schwartzwald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General This book offers a concise survey of Western Civilization from the Stone Age through the fall of the la...

• Author(s): Thucydides • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceWritten four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta sta...

• Author(s): H. D. F. Kitto • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceMost ancient cultures disappeared with scarcely a trace, their effect upon our modern way of life of little consequence. The Greeks, howeve...

• Author(s): Nicole Loraux • Publisher: Zone Books • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceAthens, 403 BCE. The end of the bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty. The democrats return to the city victorious. Renouncing veng...

• Author(s): Peter W. Rose • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalIn this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number ...

• Author(s): Harald Haarmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Contrary to a prevalent belief of the Western world, that democracy, agriculture, theater and the arts were th...

• Author(s): Michael Grant • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceIt is today widely accepted that we do not get the whole truth from any historian. Greek and Roman Historians considers the work of ancient ...

• Author(s): James R. Ashley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - Greece The Macedonian Empire lasted only 36 years, beginning with Philip II's assumption of the throne in 359 B.C. a...

• Author(s): Rodney Castleden • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceKnossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a symbol for an entire culture. The Knossos Labyrinth was first built in the reign of a Mid...

• Author(s): Robert Garland • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceSurveying funerary rites and attitudes toward death from the time of Homer to the fourth century B.C., Robert...

• Author(s): Fred Eugene Ray • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General In the 5th century B.C., Greece was a patchwork country of small, independent city-states whose tendency to...

• Author(s): Diane P. Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - Greece The Trojan War occurred more than 3,000 years ago. Since then, starting with Homer's epics, people have bee...

• Author(s): Simon Price • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceAn innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Peng...

• Author(s): Donald Kagan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceWhy did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volum...

• Author(s): H. D. F. Kitto • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient - Greece"The best introduction I have ever read to Ancient Greece. The author's liveliness of mind and style has enabled him to make a mass...

• Author(s): Martin Bernal • Publisher: Rutgers University Press Classics • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press Classics • BISAC: Europe - Greece (see also Ancient - Greece)Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about C...