Viking Adult, August 1999. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Charles Freeman's The Greek Achievement traces the entire course of ancient Greek history across thousands of years -- from the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations of the Bronze Age through the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman.....
Basic Books, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Alexander the Great is a towering figure in world history, but despite our long-held fascination with him, his burial site is unknown. The search for Alexander's tomb began soon after his untimely death in 323 B.C. and continues even.....
Vintage, March 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). 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.....
Anchor Books, 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore "the hinges of history," Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining--and historically unassailable--journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In.....
Routledge, December 1989. Trade Paperback. For centuries, classical scholars have intensely debated the position of women in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal power, or were they little better than slaves? Using methods developed from feminist anthropology, Winkler steps back from this narrowly framed question and puts.....
Undena Publications, 1999. Trade Paperback. 140 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Revised edition. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Workbook pages clean and unused. Former owner's stamp on top edge and title page.
Routledge, May 1999. Trade Paperback. Later printing. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Former owner's short gift inscription on cover verso. Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History discusses how the abundant Mesopotamian cuneiform text sources can be used for the study of various aspects of history: political, social.....
Penguin Books, January 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good in wappers (paperback). A gripping modern-day detective story about the scientific quest to understand the Oracle of Delphi Like Walking the Bible, this fascinating book turns a modern eye on an enduring legend. The Oracle of Delphi was one of the most.....
Walker & Company, April 2002. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Once part of a large culture of stone circles, Stonehenge--built around 3000 B.C. and developed over the next 1,500 years--is the most famous. The remains of a once-wealthy and evidently learned tribal community, it.....
Helicon Nine Editions, 1995. First Edition. Pamphlet. 25 pages. 7 by 5 inches. One of 250 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback).
Ticknor & Fields, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 250 pages. A novel of the Trojan war. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Scientific American Librarey, 1989. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
British Museum Press, 2004. Hardcover. Later printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In this beautifully illustrated book, Maureen Carroll examines the most recent evidence of the existence of ancient gardens, the horticultural practices used to plant and maintain them, and the many forms and functions they assumed.....
University of Chicago Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. 215 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Hans J. Nissen here provides a much-needed overview of 7000 years of development in the ancient Near East from the beginning of settled life to the formation of the first regional states. His approach to the.....
Yale University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 454 pages. The author 'discusses the impact of Rome on American artists and writers from the earliest days of the new republic.' - from the flyleaf. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Harry N Abrams, April 1996. Hardcover. Cloaked in mystery for the past 50 years, the legendary Gold of Troy is now on display at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. This handsome volume, the official catalog of the Pushkin exhibition, tells the compelling tale of these ancient artifacts and how they.....
Overlook Press, 2010. Hardcover. In 312 A.D., Constantine-one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire-marched on Rome to establish his control. On the eve of the battle, a cross appeared to him in the sky with an exhortation, "By this sign conquer." Inscribing the cross on the shields of.....
Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained. In.....
Paul Neff Verlag, 1904. Hardcover. 381 pages. 5 color plates and 411 illustrations in B/W. Text in German. Later printing. A very good copy in blue cloth with illustration and lettering in gilt on front cover and spine. Edge and corner wear. with boards beginning to show at spine ends.....
George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 32 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in cloth covers with blue lettering on front cover and spine. Minor edge wear. Very good, sunned, dust jacket, with edge and corner wear, with clear tape on inside at spine.....
Nattli and Bond, n.d. Hardcover. 324, 323 pages. Black-and-white illustrations Very good copies in matched green cloth covers with embossed decorations. Gold lettering and decorations on spines. Engraved frontispiece in each volume; frontispiece loose in volume I. Edge and corner wear. Corners bumped. No dust jacket. A nice set.
Random House Trade Paperbacks, September 2006. Trade Paperback. One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create.....
Penguin Books, September 1995. Trade Paperback. In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. They could own and trade in property, work outside the home, marry foreigners and live.....
B.E.S. Publishing, February 2015. Hardcover. More than 1,900 years ago, the Roman city of Pompeii was frozen in time when the massive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius buried the city, and everyone in it, under layers of ash. Today, millions are gripped by the dramatic story of the sudden destruction of.....
Walker & Co, January 1975. Hardcover.