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Aeschylus
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"Streamlined in its storytelling and voluptuous in its use of language."Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times [from a review of the Court Theater production] The great trilogy that is the wellspring of Western drama. Aeschylus, the earliest of the great Attic tragedians, presented his Oresteia at Athens' City Dionysia festival in 458... more
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Edward Gibbon
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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This is an abridged edition of Gibbon's classic. Concentrating on the centuries from the age of the Antonines to the fall of the empire in the West, this volume chronicles "the triumph of barbarism and religion" in the disruption of the unified empire, the rise of Christianity, the progress of... more
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Amish Tripathi
[Paperback, Adobe pdf 2011]
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1900 BC. In what modern Indian mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha – a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived. This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi... more
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Erich Von Daniken
[Paperback 1990]
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Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring countless books and films, including the author's own popular sequel, The Eyes... more
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Niccolo Machiavelli ,
Bernard Crick ,
Leslie J Walker
[Paperback 1984]
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Herodotus ,
John M Marincola ,
Aubrey De Selincourt
[Paperback 2003]
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During the fifth century BC, a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city-states united to repel a mighty Persian army. While the story of this heroic drama forms the main theme of Herodotus' narrative, the author's curiosity fleshes out the text with digressions, folk tales and stories. Translated by Aubrey... more
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R C Majumdar
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This is a comprehensive, intelligible and interesting portrait of Ancient Indian History and Civilization from a national historical point of view. The work is divided into three broad divisions of the natural course of cultural development in Ancient India: (1) From the prehistoric age to 600 B.C., (2) From 600... more
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Arrian
[Paperback 1976]
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'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable' Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian's own experience as a military commander gave him unique insights into... more
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Stacy Schiff
[Paperback 2011]
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still... more
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Marcus ,
Aurelius Marcus ,
Maxwell Staniforth
[Paperback 1997]
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A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice--on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others--have... more
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Erich Von Daniken ,
Nicholas Quaintmere
[Paperback 2009]
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Erich von Daniken again shows his flair for revealing the truths that his contemporaries have missed. After closely analyzing hundreds of ancient and apparently unrelated texts, he is now ready to proclaim that human history is nothing like the world religions claim and he has the proof! In "History Is... more
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Thomas R Trautmann
[Paperback 2008]
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This book, the seventh in the Debates series, brings together a selection of significant essays on the extremely topical Aryan debate. The central question behind this selection is, did the Sanskrit-speaking Aryans enter India from the Northwest in 1500 BC, or were they indigenous to India and identical with the... more
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[Paperback 2000]
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ABOUT THE BOOK: This book is a substantially modified and enlarged version of the author's Ancient India: an Introductory Outline (1977) and surveys the major developments in India's social, economic and cultural history up to the end of the ancient period and the beginning of the early middle ages and... more
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Philip Freeman
[Paperback 2009]
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This authoritative and compulsively readable biography portrays one of history's greatest figures in all his dimensions--as priest, poet, general, and triumphant politician. 8 pages of b&w illustrations. More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations,... more
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Graham Hancock
[Paperback 2003]
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From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods , comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization thats been hidden for thousands of years beneath the worlds oceans. While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring... more
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E A Wallis Budge ,
John Romer
[Paperback 2008]
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"First published in Great Britain as The book of the dead by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner 1899"--T.p. verso.... more
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Euripides
[Paperback 2002]
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The Greek playwright Euripedes was misunderstood in his own time, but the topics he chose to write about--women's role in society, war, religion, and the human condition--are still relevant today. Included here: "Alcestis", "Hippolytus", "Ion", "Electra", "Iphigenia at Aulis", "Iphigenia Among the Taurians", "Medea", "The Bachhae", "The Trojan Woman", and... more
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Plutarch ,
Ian Scott Kilvert ,
Christopher Pelling
[Paperback 2010]
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The translations of Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Sertorius, Brutus and Antony are revised versions of those in Ian Scott-Kilvert's 1965 Penguin volume Makers of Rome.... more
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Aristotle ,
P J Rhodes
[Paperback 2009]
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Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived under differing kinds of government. The writer recounts the... more
