Overview :'The Sites of Ancient Greece' presents 150 of Georg Gerster's most spectacular and evocative photographs of the landscapes and architecture ... Read More
Overview :The complex and distinctive Spartan tradition has been a prominent theme in western thinking from antiquity to today. Sparta is also one of ... Read More
Overview :Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy," yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was a... Read More
Overview :In 480 B.C., the mighty Persian king Xerxes led a massive force to the narrow mountain pass called Thermopylae, anticipating no significant ... Read More
Overview :The Hellenistic period (approximately the last three centuries B.C.), with its cultural complexities and enduring legacies, retains a lastin... Read More
Overview :The riveting, definitive account of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, by the acclaimed author of The Spartans--now in paperback Among the e... Read More
Overview :Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for Goodbye to Berlin the inspiratio... Read More
Overview :This highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and infor... Read More
Overview :Alexander the Great is the towering hero of the classical world: a fearless general, the conqueror of the Persians, and the visionary ruler ... Read More
Overview :Who were the Classical Greeks? This book provides an original and challenging answer by exploring how Greeks (adult, male, citizen) defined ... Read More