Hackett Pub Co, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Features ancient Greek society - from food and drink to literacy, the plight of the elderly, the treatment of slaves, and much more. This book also explores the mentalities and morals of ordinary ancient Greek citizens at various societal.....
Oxford University Press, May 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age, to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical Greek world established the foundations of our culture as well as many.....
Berkley Books, December 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Simon & Schuster, March 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)--a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire.....
Lost Library, January 2010. Trade Paperback. Remainder Copy - like new.
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). NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. "A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal 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.....
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).
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.....
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.....
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.
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.
Blackwell Pub, December 1992. Hardcover.
Viking, June 2004. Hardcover.
MacMillan Publishing Company, October 1991. Hardcover. This book shows full-page colour photographs of the most visited ancient sites throughout the world as they appear today - then superimposes, on acetate overlays, vivid, realistic artist's reconstructions of the same sites as they appeared in their original glory. The sun-baked shell of.....
The Teaching Company, (2010). Trade Paperback. 107-page Course Guidebook, plus 4-disc DVD set containing twenty-four 30-minute lectures on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the remains of the first-century society preserved beneath the ashes. DVD set in original case plus the guidebook. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). DVDs fine.....
Knopf, January 1969. Hardcover.
Element Books, November 1991. Trade Paperback.
Alpha, January 1753. Trade Paperback. Separating fact from fiction, this work shows the reader where to find the civilizations that have vanished or exist with only slight clues left among ruins. As well as stories of lost civilizations, it presents news on the latest and most exciting archaeological finds.
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2007. Hardcover.
W. W. Norton, January 1957. Hardcover.