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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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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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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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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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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
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Aristophanes ,
Jeffrey Henderson
[Paperback 1994]
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Aristophanes's most popular play shows how sex, or the lack of it, becomes a powerful agent of reconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, Lysistrata of Athens leads the wives to deny their husbands all sexual favors until they lay aside their weapons. Dismayed and frustrated, the men retaliate--and a battle... more
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Xenophon ,
Rex Warner ,
George Cawkwell
[Paperback 1950]
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Thucydides Bc ,
Rex Warner ,
Moses I Finley
[Paperback 1954]
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Written 400 years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account... more
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Linda Johnsen
[Paperback 2006]
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Reveals the historical connections between ancient Greece and the yogis of the Himalayas. Influential thinkers--including Plata and Pythagoras--were influenced by sages of the East.... more
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Robin Lane Fox
[Paperback 2010]
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The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime's knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels,... more
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2008]
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'In the world of Herodotus, the only real repository of memory is the individual. In order to find out that which has been remembered, one must reach this person. If he lives far away, one has to go to him, to set out on a journey. And when finally encountering... more
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Thomas Pausanias ,
Peter Levi
[Paperback 1984]
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Kurke
[Hardcover 2004, 1st Edition]
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Hans Licht
[Hardcover 2001]
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From Ancient Greece, modern Western civilisation has derived many of its artistic philosophical and political ideals. But, in certain areas of sexual tolerance and inventiveness, we still have much to learn from the land and age which produced the most flourishing and creative culture of the ancient world. Professor Hans... more
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Victor Davis Hanson ,
Hanson
[Paperback 1999, 2nd Edition]
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For generations, scholars have focused on the Greek city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture as the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. This passionate book leads us outside the city walls to the countryside, where the majority of the Greek citizenry lived, to find the... more
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Albert Brian Bosworth
[Paperback 1998]
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In this study, Bosworth looks at Alexander the Great's activities in Central Asia and Pakistan, drawing a bleak picture of massacre and repression comparable to the Spanish conquest of Mexico. He investigates the evolution of Alexander's views of empire and concept of universal monarch, and documents the representation of Alexander... more
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Arnaldo Momigliano
[Paperback 1990]
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In this classic study of cultural confrontation Professor Momigliano examines the Greeks' attitude toward the contemporary civilizations of the Romans, Celts, Jews, and Persians. Analyzing cultural and intellectual interaction from the fourth through the first centuries B.C., Momigliano argues that in the Hellenistic period the Greeks, Romans, and Jews enjoyed... more
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Roger Brock ,
Stephen Hodkinson
[Hardbound 2000]
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This volume contains eighteen essays by established and younger historians that examine non-democratic alternative political systems and ideologies--oligarchies, monarchies, mixed constitutions--along with diverse forms of communal and regional associations such as ethnoi, amphiktyonies, and confederacies. The papers, which span the length and breadth of the Hellenic world highlight the immense... more
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Stephen Mitchell
[Paperback 1995]
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Philippe Rouet ,
Liz Nash
[Hardbound 2001]
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