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7 Greeksby Guy DavenportISBN 0811212882 (0-8112-1288-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Aeschylus: The Earlier Plays and Related Studiesby D.J. ConacherISBN 0802071554 (0-8020-7155-4)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Aeschylus: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Boundby David R. Slavitt, Palmer BovieISBN 0812216717 (0-8122-1671-7)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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This final volume of the tragedies of Aeschylus relates the historic defeat and dissolution of the Persian Empire on the heels of Xerxes disastrous campaign to subdue Greece, the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the throne of Thebes, the story of fifty daughters who seek asylum from their uncle, the king of Egypt, because of his demand that they marry his sons, and the well-known tale of the proud and unrepentant Prometheus, who is chained to a massive rock for revealing fire and hope to humankind.
Translations are by David Slavitt (Persians), Stephen Sandy (Seven Against Thebes), Gail Holst-Warhaft (The Suppliants), and William Matthews (Prometheus Bound).More editions of Aeschylus: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound:
Alexander the Greatby Lewis Vance CummingsISBN 0802141498 (0-8021-4149-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Alexander the Greatby W. W. TarnISBN 0807057975 (0-8070-5797-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectivesby Bradley P. Nystrom, Stylianos V. SpyridakisISBN 0840335466 (0-8403-3546-6)
Softcover, Kendall Hunt Pub Co
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Ancient Greekby Alan Henry, Gavin BettsISBN 0844237868 (0-8442-3786-8)
Softcover, Teach Yourself
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The Archaeology of Creteby PendleburyISBN 0819601217 (0-8196-0121-7)
Softcover, Biblo-Moser
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Aristophanes Five Comediesby L. MatulayISBN 0819628638 (0-8196-2863-8)
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Aristophanes Four Major Plays: Lysistrata, the Birds, the Clouds, the Archarniansby AristophanesISBN 0804901899 (0-8049-0189-9)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Arms and Armor of the Greeksby Anthony M. SnodgrassISBN 0801860733 (0-8018-6073-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Asclepius: Collection and Interpretation of the Testimonies/Volumes I and II in Oneby Emma J. Edelstein, Ludwig EdelsteinISBN 0801857694 (0-8018-5769-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Versionby EuripidesISBN 0803251947 (0-8032-5194-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Beyond the Site: Regional Studies in the Aegean Areaby Society for the Anthropology of Europe (U.S.), P. Nick KarduliasISBN 0819196320 (0-8191-9632-0)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Amer
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The Birth of Greeceby Pierre LevequeISBN 0810928434 (0-8109-2843-4)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Greece'Book summary:Ideals of democracy, art, and architecture, profound philosophical explorations, the establishment of a written historical record, the development of the tragic and comedic forms, the consolidation of the Olympian pantheon - for these and many other achievements we are eternally indebted to the ancient Greeks. This volume pays homage to a host of figures - including Pericles and Demosthenes, Aristotle and Plato, Homer and Euripides - and makes this history, our history, come alive. [via]
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The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek Worldby Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Andrew Szegedy MaszakISBN 0801859514 (0-8018-5951-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology, living on the frontier of the city-state, of adulthood, of class, of ethics, of sexuality. Taking its title from this figure, The Black Hunter approaches the Greek world from its margins and charts the elaborate system of oppositions that pervaded Greek culture and society: cultivated and wild, citizen and foreigner, real and imaginary, god and man. Organizing his discussions around four principle themesspace and time; youth and warriors; women, slaves, and artisans; and the city of vision and of realityPierre Vidal-Naquet focuses on the congruence of the textual and the actual, on the patterns that link literary, philosophical, and historical works with such social activities as war, slavery, education, and commemoration. The Black Hunter probes the interplay of world view, language, and social practice "to bring into dialogue that which does not naturally communicate according to the usual criteria of historical judgement.
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Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby CaesarISBN 0848804392 (0-8488-0439-2)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
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Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek Worldby Robert E. GaebelISBN 0806134445 (0-8061-3444-5)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Classical Greek Reader: New Encounters with Ancient Greeceby Kenneth J. AtchityISBN 0805039473 (0-8050-3947-3)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Cliffsnotes the Iliadby Bob LinnISBN 0822006456 (0-8220-0645-6)
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Costumes of the Greeks and Romans, 2 Vols. in 1by Thomas HopeISBN 0844622745 (0-8446-2274-5)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Dance in Ancient Greeceby Lillian B. LawlerISBN 081956057X (0-8195-6057-X)
Softcover, Proquest Info & Learning
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Discovering the World of the Ancient Greeksby Zofia ArchibaldISBN 0816026149 (0-8160-2614-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Euripides: Electraby M.J. CroppISBN 085668239X (0-85668-239-X)
Softcover, Aris & Phillips
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A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology: Comprising 3,673 Named Figures of Greek Mythology, All Related to Each Other With a Single Family of 20 Generationsby Harold Newman, Jon O. NewmanISBN 0807827908 (0-8078-2790-8)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The genealogy begins with Chaos and--based on works by Hesiod, Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, Bacchylides, Herodotus, Euripides, Apollodorus, Pausanias, Diodorus Siculus, and scores of other ancient poets, playwrights, and writers--continues down through the Titans, the gods, legendary kings, and such well-known figures of literature as Odysseus, Jason, Antigone, and Helen of Troy, as well as hundreds of obscure figures, including their spouses, paramours, children, and descendants.
The chart shows all of the known relationships--parental, marital, and extramarital--of each figure. In addition to furnishing a citation for each relationship, the index provides brief descriptive information and indicates the quadrant and page of the continuous chart where the relationship is depicted. A two-page master chart illustrates the relationships among the principal figures. [via]
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The Genius of Alexander the Greatby N. HammondISBN 0807847445 (0-8078-4744-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Genius of Alexander the Great'Book summary:By the time of his death in 323 B.C., Alexander III of Macedonia had built an empire that stretched from the eastern Mediterranean coast through Asia Minor and into the Indus valley. Even before his sudden death, Alexander had achieved mythical status throughout his kingdom, and in the centuries that followed his life became the subject of countless chronicles and biographies.
N. G. L. Hammond, the foremost expert on ancient Macedonian history, here presents a new account of Alexander's fabled career. Based on a thorough analysis of the ancient sources and enriched by a lifetime of research, Hammond's narrative pronounces the Macedonian conqueror a man truly deserving of the title Alexander the Great.
According to Hammond, Alexander was a visionary statesman and general, the force behind a kingdom which rose above racism and nationalism to enjoy peace and prosperity. His intellect and charismatic personality, which earned him the respect, admiration, and devotion of his subjects, also help explain Alexander's endurance as a source of fascination into the present day. [via]
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God of Many Names: Play, Poetry, and Power in Hellenic Thought, from Homer to Aristotleby Mihai SpariosuISBN 0822311275 (0-8223-1127-5)
Hardcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Gods, Men and Monsters from the Greek Mythsby Michael Gibson, Giovanni CaselliISBN 0805237933 (0-8052-3793-3)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Mortimer Jerome Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Philip W. GoetzISBN 0852295316 (0-85229-531-6)
Hardcover, Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Greece: Temples, Tombs, & Treasuresby Time-Life BooksISBN 080949020X (0-8094-9020-X)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Greek Newsby Philip Steele, Anton PowellISBN 0836827201 (0-8368-2720-1)
Hardcover, Gareth Stevens Pub
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Greek Architectureby Robert Lorentz ScrantonISBN 0807601756 (0-8076-0175-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Greek Folk Religionby Martin P. NilssonISBN 0812210344 (0-8122-1034-4)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Greek Mythology: An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legendby Richard StonemanISBN 0850309344 (0-85030-934-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Greek Paintingby Martin RobertsonISBN 0847802000 (0-8478-0200-0)
Hardcover, Rizzoli
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Greek Scienceby Benjamin FarringtonISBN 085124288X (0-85124-288-X)
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Growing up in Ancient Greeceby Chris Chelepi, Chris MolanISBN 0816727201 (0-8167-2720-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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A Guide to the Ancient World: A Dictionary of Classical Place Namesby Michael GrantISBN 0824207424 (0-8242-0742-4)
Hardcover, Hw Wilson Co
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The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education & Culture in Ancient Spartaby Nigel M. KennellISBN 0807822191 (0-8078-2219-1)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Using epigraphical, literary, and archaeological evidence, Kennell describes the development of all aspects of Spartan education, including the age-grade system and physical contests that were integral to the system. He shows that Spartan education reached its apogee in the early Roman Empire, when Spartans sought to distinguish themselves from other Greeks. He attributes many of the changes instituted later in the period to one personthe philosopher Sphaerus the Borysthenite, who was an adviser to the revolutionary king Cleomenes III in the third century B.C. [via]
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Happiness: A Historyby Darrin M. McMahonISBN 0802142893 (0-8021-4289-3)
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Helen in Egyptby H.D.ISBN 0811205444 (0-8112-0544-4)
Softcover, New Directions
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Helen in Egyptby Hilda DoolittleISBN 0811205436 (0-8112-0543-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Helen: Myth, Legend, and the Culture of Misogynyby Robert E. MeagherISBN 0826408508 (0-8264-0850-8)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Helenistic Military and Naval Developmentsby W. W. TarnISBN 0819601691 (0-8196-0169-1)
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Hippolytusby EuripidesISBN 0856682411 (0-85668-241-1)
Softcover, Aris & Phillips
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History of Philosophy: Fichte to Nietzscheby Frederick CoplestonISBN 0809100711 (0-8091-0071-1)
Hardcover, Paulist Pr
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History of Philosophy: Greece and Romeby Frederick CoplestonISBN 0809100657 (0-8091-0065-7)
Hardcover, Paulist Pr
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In the Shape of a Boarby Lawrence NorfolkISBN 0802139671 (0-8021-3967-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Shape of a Boar'Book summary:Lawrence Norfolk's third novel takes the boar hunt as its central metaphor to discuss love, betrayal, fear and the annihilation of war. The first section begins in Ancient Greece with the hunt for the boar of Kalydon, then moves to Paris in the 1970s, where the poet, Sol Memel's life echoes the mythological prototypes.
When King Oeneus neglects to sacrifice animals to Artemis at the festival of First Fruits, she sends a boar of gigantic proportions and ferocious strength to destroy the land. The king's son, Meleager, gathers prize hunters to kill it. They form "a new, earth-bound constellation" as they converge around Mount Aracynthus, already "one another's quarry in a bloodless preparatory hunt". Their roll call creates "a palace of sound".
Norfolk's beautifully compelling prose establishes a phenomenal pace, mirroring the characters' charged drive towards their foretold destiny. He creates a dense geography of paths of sumac and oak, wild pear trees, brushwood, sedge, spurge, lentisc, wild olives and myrtle, until Greece itself emerges as a recurrent and potent character. The three strongest hunters, Meleager, Atalanta and her cousin Meilanion form a powerful triangle of desire, for victory and each other. As they move into the terrain of the boar, the narrative is as tense as any urban thriller chase. When victims of the boar are discovered gored by branches of a tree, Norfolk luxuriates in the violence, as though exorcising a part of himself. As Sol Memel suggests about the horrors of the Second World War: "Memories were violent from the inside out. People made them up because they had to."
In the second section, the three mythic hunters are re-created in Sol and his two best friends, Ruth and Jakob, who've each escaped the Jewish ghetto in different ways. Here, the purpose of Norfolk's excessive classical footnotes becomes clear when Sol's masterpiece, Die Keilerjagd--The Hunt of the Boar is published with obsessive annotations by his old rival, Jakob, undermining Sol's integrity. Although the second half of the book is less clotted, the intensity of the hunt is diffused and much less gripping. In the Shape of a Boar is an ambitiously layered novel, in which the reader becomes complicit in the hunt for truth and the creation of evil. --Cherry Smyth [via]
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Love in Ancient Greeceby Robert FlaceliereISBN 0837167582 (0-8371-6758-2)
Hardcover, Greenwood Press
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The March of Folly from Troy to Vietnamby Barbara TuchmanISBN 0816137617 (0-8161-3761-7)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Masterpieces in the Brooklyn MuseumISBN 0810915286 (0-8109-1528-6)
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Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius, Gregory HaysISBN 0812968255 (0-8129-6825-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in a.d. 161and Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. With a profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus provides insights, wisdom, and practical guidance on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity to interacting with others. Consequently, the Meditations have become required reading for statesmen and philosophers alike, while generations of ordinary readers have responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style. In Gregory Hayss new translationthe first in a generationMarcuss thoughts speak with a new immediacy: never before have they been so directly and powerfully presented.More editions of Meditations:
A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910057 (0-8049-1005-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Minotaurby Joseph Alexander MacgillivrayISBN 0809030357 (0-8090-3035-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Oedipus the King.by Anthony BurgessISBN 0816606676 (0-8166-0667-6)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus the King.'Book summary:Washington Square Press Enriched Classics make great literature even more accessible to a new generation of readers, with expanded and updated reader's supplements and essential historical information. Oedipus the King is the 2,000-year-old masterpiece that raises basic questions about human behavior that are still vigorously debated by students and scholars. Photos and illustrations. [via]
Olympiansby Leonard FisherISBN 0823405222 (0-8234-0522-2)
Hardcover, Holiday House
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On the Nature of Thingsby Lucretius, Anthony M. EsolenISBN 080185055X (0-8018-5055-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Nature of Things'Book summary:Titus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and died in the year 55. Little is known of his life, although two tantalizing bits of gossip were passed on by St. Jerome: that he was poisoned by a madness-inducing aphrodisiac given him by his wife, and that his great poem On the Nature of Things was posthumously edited by Cicero. For the latter assertion, writes Anthony Esolen in his introduction to the present volume, there is little evidence, and none whatsoever for the former.
What does survive is a masterful poetic work that stands as the greatest exposition of Epicurean philosophy. Writing in the waning days of the Roman Republicas Rome's politics grew individualistic and treacherous, its high-life wanton, its piety introspective and morbidLucretius sets forth a rational and materialistic view of the world which offers a retreat into a quiet community of wisdom and friendship.
Even to modern readers, the sweep of Lucretius's observations is remarkable. A careful observer of nature, he writes with an innocent curiosity into how things are put togetherfrom the oceans, lands, and stars to a mound of poppy seeds, from the "applause" of a rooster's wings to the human mind and soul. Yet Lucretius is no romantic. Nature is what it isfascinating,purposeless, beautiful, deadly. Once we understand this, we free ourselves of superstitious fears, becoming as human and as godlike as we can be. The poem, then, is about the universe and how human beings ought to live in it. Epicurean physics and morality converge.
Until now, there has been no adequate English verse translation of Lucretius's work. Anthony Esolen fills that gap with a version that reproduceswith remarkable faithfulnessthe meaning, pace, and tone of the original Latin.
Here is a book that will introduce a new generation of readers to a thinker whose powers of observation and depth of insight remain fresh to the present day.
"Esolen has the rare gift of being both a fine poet and a lover of languages. His diction is poetic and natural; he has a fine ear for sound, and the translation benefits greatly from being read aloudas Latin poetry was meant to be. This translation is clear and forceful. It can, and will, be read."Kenneth J. Reckford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Persia and the Greeks: The Defence of the West C546-478 B.C.by Andrew Robert BurnISBN 0804712352 (0-8047-1235-2)
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Plato: Phaedrusby C. J. RoweISBN 0856683132 (0-85668-313-2)
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Plato Phaedrusby PlatoISBN 0856683140 (0-85668-314-0)
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Pompeiiby Robert HarrisISBN 0812974611 (0-8129-7461-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pompeii'Book summary:All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empires richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The worlds largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii.
But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared. Springs are failing for the rst time in generations. And now there is a crisis on the Augustas sixty-mile main linesomewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
Attiliusdecent, practical, and incorruptiblepromises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travel to Pompeii and put together an expedition, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at workboth natural and man-madethreatening to destroy him.
With his trademark elegance and intelligence, Robert Harris, bestselling author of Archangel and Fatherland, re-creates a world on the brink of disaster.
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A Problem in Greek Ethics: Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion, Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Juristsby John Addington SymondsISBN 0838312535 (0-8383-1253-5)
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Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refiguredby Susan C. JarrattISBN 0809322242 (0-8093-2224-2)
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Rome, the Greek World, And the East: The Greek World, the Jews, And the Eastby Fergus Millar, Guy M. Rogers, Hannah M. CottonISBN 0807856932 (0-8078-5693-2)
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The Search for Alexanderby Robin Lane FoxISBN 082121117X (0-8212-1117-X)
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Search for Ancient Greeceby Roland Etienne, Francoise Etienne, Anthony ZielonkaISBN 0810928043 (0-8109-2804-3)
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Sexual Culture of Ancient Greeceby Daniel H. GarrisonISBN 080613237X (0-8061-3237-X)
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Till We Have Facesby C. S. LewisISBN 0802860192 (0-8028-6019-2)
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Travel in the Ancient Worldby Lionel CassonISBN 0801848083 (0-8018-4808-3)
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The Trojan Epic: Posthomericaby Alan James, QuintusISBN 0801879655 (0-8018-7965-5)
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Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fablesby Aesop, Helen WardISBN 0811844501 (0-8118-4450-1)
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The War Lover: A Study of Plato's Republicby Leon H. CraigISBN 0802005861 (0-8020-0586-1)
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The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Romeby Jane McIntosh SnyderISBN 0809317060 (0-8093-1706-0)
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World Mythologyby Donna RosenbergISBN 0844257672 (0-8442-5767-2)
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