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Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readingsby Miriam LichtheimISBN 0520248430 (0-520-24843-0)
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Softcover, Univ of California Pr - Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book Of Readings The New Kingdom: ISBN 0520248430 (0-520-24843-0)
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Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings The Late Periodby Miriam Lichtheim, Joseph Gilbert ManningISBN 0520248449 (0-520-24844-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings The Late Period'Book summary:First published in 1973 - and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 - this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world's earliest civilizations.[via]
Volume I outlines the early and gradual evolution of Egyptian literary genres, including biographical and historical inscriptions carved on stone, the various classes of literary works written with pen on papyrus, and the mortuary literature that focuses on life after death. Introduced with a new foreword by Antonio Loprieno.
Volume II shows the culmination of these literary genres within the single period known as the New Kingdom (1550-1080 B.C.). With a new foreword by Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert.
Volume III spans the last millennium of Pharaonic civilization, from the tenth century B.C. to the beginning of the Christian era. With a new foreword by Joseph G. Manning.More editions of Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings The Late Period:
Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book Of Readings The Old And Middle Kingdomsby Miriam LichtheimISBN 0520248422 (0-520-24842-2)
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Ancient Near Eastern Artby Dominique CollonISBN 0520203070 (0-520-20307-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Near Eastern Art'Book summary:Based on the unrivaled collections of the British Museum, this extensively illustrated book is a superb introduction to the art of the ancient Near East from the eighth millennium B.C. to Alexander the Great. Often described as the cradle of civilization, the ancient Near East was the birthplace of writing, monumental sculpture, and wheel-made pottery. Dominique Collon provides a unique view into this ancient world, from village settlements to grand palaces to burial sites.[via]
Collon situates the Museum's most beautiful and interesting artifacts against their historical and cultural background. Among the works featured are painted pottery, figurines, cylinder seals, and stone amulets from the earliest village cultures before 3000 B.C. Also here are magnificent finds from graves at Alaca Huyuk in Turkey and the Royal Cemetery at Ur, including jewelry, musical instruments, and the famous Royal Standard. Sculpted reliefs from Assyrian palaces and Sasanian metalwork round out the collection. In her final chapter, Collon shows how art from the ancient Near East resonates in our own world today.
A welcome addition is a Mesopotamian chronology summarizing recent astronomical and textual data, compiled by C.B.F. Walker especially for this book.More editions of Ancient Near Eastern Art:
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The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances; Completeby William Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse, Hans PrintzISBN 0517665557 (0-517-66555-7)
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Archaic and Classical Greece : A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translationby Michael Crawford, David WhiteheadISBN 0521227755 (0-521-22775-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Archaic and Classical Greek Coinsby C. KraayISBN 0520032543 (0-520-03254-3)
Hardcover, University of California Press
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Art and Experience in Classical Greeceby Jerome Jordan PollittISBN 0521096626 (0-521-09662-6)
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The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucaultby Alexander NehamasISBN 0520224906 (0-520-22490-6)
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The Art of War in World History: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Ageby Gerard ChaliandISBN 0520079647 (0-520-07964-7)
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Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C.by Stephen V. TracyISBN 0520068068 (0-520-06806-8)
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The Cambridge Ancient Historyby John Boardman, I. E. S. Edwards, N. G. L. Hammond, E. SollbergerISBN 0521227178 (0-521-22717-8)
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The Cambridge Ancient History: Early History of the Middle East, Volume 1/Part 2by Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen EdwardsISBN 0521077915 (0-521-07791-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Ancient History: History of the Middle Aegean Region C. 1380-1000 B.C., Vol 2/Part 2by C J Gadd, N.G.L. Hammond, I. E. S. Edwards, E. SollbergerISBN 0521086914 (0-521-08691-4)
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Cambridge Ancient History: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region, C. 1800-1380 B.C.by CambridgeISBN 0521082307 (0-521-08230-7)
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The Cambridge Ancient History: Persia, Greece, and the Western Mediterranean, C. 525-479 B.C.by John BoardmanISBN 0521228042 (0-521-22804-2)
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The Cambridge Ancient History : Plates to Volumes 1 and 2by P. Mack Crew, I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, E. SollbergerISBN 0521205719 (0-521-20571-9)
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The Cambridge Ancient History: Prolegomena and Prehistory, Vol 1/Part 1by C J Gadd, I. E. S. Edwards, N.G.L. HammondISBN 0521070511 (0-521-07051-1)
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Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Latin Literatureby E.J. KenneyISBN 0521210437 (0-521-21043-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517642913 (0-517-64291-3)
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Conquerors and Slavesby Keith HopkinsISBN 0521219450 (0-521-21945-0)
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Cuneiformby C. B. F. WalkerISBN 0520061152 (0-520-06115-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cuneiform'Book summary:The cuneiform writing system flourished in the Near East from before 3000 BC to AD 75. This book surveys the development of the script from the earliest pictographic signs to the latest astronomical tablets and the process by which it came to be used for writing many different Near Eastern languages. Sample texts show how the script is analysed into words and syllables and how to read the names of the most famous kings as they appear on monuments. In addition, extracts from contemporary Sumerian literature and school texts give an account of the training of the scribes, and the various types of inscription they wrote are illustrated. The decipherment of cuneiform is explained and--for the collector--some guidelines for the identification of fake inscriptions are given.[via]More editions of Cuneiform:
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0520027124 (0-520-02712-4)
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Ecloguesby Virgil, Robert ColemanISBN 0521200822 (0-521-20082-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eclogues'Book summary:Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral into an Italian setting, blending details from the life of his native countryside into the subsequent history of the genre. On publication the Eclogues won immediate acclaim and Vergil's reputation as a major poet was established. In this edition Robert Coleman describes the earlier pastoral tradition, sets Vergil's poems in historical perspective and evaluates the poet's distinctive contribution to the genre. In the commentary difficulties of interpretation are elucidated. Theocritean influences are examined in detail and points of interest in the language, style and subject-matter discussed. This is the fullest edition of the Eclogues to have appeared in any language and the first in English since the end of the nineteenth century. It is intended primarily for university students and sixth-formers but will be valuable to anyone interested in Latin poetry and the development of the pastoral genre. [via]
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Egypt After the Pharaohs: 332 Bc-Ad 642 from Alexander to the Arab Conquestby Alan K. BowmanISBN 0520066650 (0-520-06665-0)
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Essays on Aristotle's Ethicsby Amelie RortyISBN 0520040414 (0-520-04041-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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FirdbrandISBN 0517694387 (0-517-69438-7)
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Glassby Ruth Hurst VoseISBN 0517684772 (0-517-68477-2)
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Gray's Anatomyby Henry GrayISBN 0517652935 (0-517-65293-5)
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Greeks and the Irrationalby E.R. DoddsISBN 0520242300 (0-520-24230-0)
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0521094747 (0-521-09474-7)
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For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Heaven's Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilizationby Graham Hancock, Santha FaiiaISBN 0517708116 (0-517-70811-6)
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Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Scepticsby A. A. LongISBN 0520058089 (0-520-05808-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedyby Bernard M.W. KnoxISBN 0520049578 (0-520-04957-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy'Book summary:The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is essentially the same. The demonstration of this recurrent pattern is made not through character-analysis, but through a close examination of the language employed by both the hero and those with whom he contends. The two chapters attempt to present what might, with a slight exaggeration, be called the "formula" of Sophoclean tragedy.[via]
A great artist may repeat a structural pattern but he never really repeats himself. In the remaining four chapters, a close analysis of three plays, the Antigone, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, emphasizes the individuality and variety of the living figures Sophocles created on the same basic armature.
This approach to Sophoclean drama is (as in the author's previous work on the subject) both historical and critical; the universal and therefore contemporary appeal of the plays is to be found not by slighting or dismissing their historical context, but by an attempt to understand it all in its complexity. "The play needs to be seen as what it was, to be understood as what it is."More editions of The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy:
A History of Greek Philosophyby William Kieth GuthrieISBN 0521075661 (0-521-07566-1)
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A History of Greek Philosophy Vol. 1 : The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreansby W. K. C. GuthrieISBN 0521051592 (0-521-05159-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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A History of Greek Philosophy Vol. 3, Pt. 1 : The Fifth Century Enlightenment: The Sophistsby W. K. C. GuthrieISBN 0521096669 (0-521-09666-9)
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A History of the Greek City States, 700-338 B.C.by Raphael SealeyISBN 0520031776 (0-520-03177-6)
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Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Mythby Walter BurkertISBN 0520058755 (0-520-05875-5)
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The Houses of Roman Italy 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decorationby John R. ClarkeISBN 0520084292 (0-520-08429-2)
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In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: A Journey from Greece to Asiaby Michael WoodISBN 0520231929 (0-520-23192-9)
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Intellectual Revolution: Selections from Euripides Thucydies and Platoby Joint Association of Classical Teachers, Plato, Thucydides, EuripidesISBN 0521224616 (0-521-22461-6)
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Introduction to Attic Greekby Donald J. MastronardeISBN 0520078446 (0-520-07844-6)
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The Last Generation of the Roman Republicby Erich S. GruenISBN 0520201531 (0-520-20153-1)
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Linear B and Related Scriptsby John ChadwickISBN 0520060199 (0-520-06019-9)
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip IIby Fernand Braudel, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0520203089 (0-520-20308-9)
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The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankindby Graham Hancock, Robert BauvalISBN 0517888521 (0-517-88852-1)
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The Mummy: A History of Extraordinary Practices of Ancient Egyptby E.A. Wallis BudgeISBN 0517675803 (0-517-67580-3)
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The Mycenaean Worldby John ChadwickISBN 0521210771 (0-521-21077-1)
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The Myth of the Magusby E. M. ButlerISBN 0521225647 (0-521-22564-7)
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Party Politics in the Age of Caesarby Lily Ross TaylorISBN 0520012577 (0-520-01257-7)
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Party Politics in the Age of Caesar is a shrewd commentary on this text, designed to clarify the true meaning in Roman political life of such terms as "party" and "faction." Taylor brilliantly explains the mechanics of Roman politics as she discusses the relations of nobles and their clients, the manipulation of the state religion for political expedience, and the practical means of delivering the vote.More editions of Party Politics in the Age of Caesar:
Phaedraby Michael Coffey, Seneca, Roland MayerISBN 0521200857 (0-521-20085-7)
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Phoeniciansby Glenn MarkoeISBN 0520226143 (0-520-22614-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phoenicians'Book summary:One of the great enigmas of the ancient world, the Phoenicians were both lauded and despised in antiquity. They were celebrated as learned scribes who passed on the modern alphabet, as skilled seafarers and explorers, and as gifted artisans and engineers. Historical sources show they were also perceived as unscrupulous profiteers and cheaters, and as a morally corrupt race of people who prostituted their daughters and butchered their infant children in sacrifices to their gods. But who were the real Phoenicians, and what do we know of their origins and culture?[via]
The heartland of the Phoenician empire consisted of a narrow coastal strip between the Lebanon mountains and the Mediterranean sea, a slightly extended version of modern Lebanon. The Phoenicians who lived along this coastline explored and colonized far away lands. But in many ways the Phoenician civilization is lost and many facts about it are unknown since not a single Phoenician manuscript has survived in the original or in translation. Digging deep into the historical and archaeological sources, Glenn Markoe reconstructs what we presently know about these mysterious people and their maritime culture. He fleshes out Phoenicia, giving accounts of its history, cities, economy, language and literature, religion, and its commercial expansion abroad.
This richly illustrated book includes photographs of Phoenician artifacts and excavations, along with many maps and drawings. Unlike other works that have treated the Phoenician culture as an Early Iron Age phenomenon, Markoe focuses on the continuity in tradition that characterized Phoenician history over a period of more than 1200 years, from the beginning of the Late Bronze Age (c 1550 b.c.)--when Phoenician cities first emerged--to the start of the Hellenistic period around 300 b.c. This book provides a comprehensive, unified view of a culture consisting of many disparate ethnic and geographical entities.
Plato's Euthydemus: Analysis of What Is and Is Not Philosophyby Thomas H. ChanceISBN 0520077547 (0-520-07754-7)
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Plato's Phaedoby R. HackforthISBN 0521097029 (0-521-09702-9)
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The Poems Of Exile: Tristia And The Black Sea Lettersby Ovid, Peter GreenISBN 0520242602 (0-520-24260-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems Of Exile: Tristia And The Black Sea Letters'Book summary:In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile--permanently, as it turned out--at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's subsequent efforts to secure either a reprieve or, at the very least, a transfer to a less dangerous place of exile failed. Two millennia later, the agonized, witty, vivid, nostalgic, and often slyly malicious poems he wrote at Tomis remain as fresh as the day they were written, a testament for exiles everywhere, in all ages.[via]
The two books of the Poems of Exile, the Lamentations (Tristia) and the Black Sea Letters (Epistulae ex Ponto), chronicle Ovid's impressions of Tomis--its appalling winters, bleak terrain, and sporadic raids by barbarous nomads--as well as his aching memories and ongoing appeals to his friends and his patient wife to intercede on his behalf. While pretending to have lost his old literary skills and even to be forgetting his Latin, in the Poems of Exile Ovid in fact displays all his virtuoso poetic talent, now concentrated on one objective: ending the exile. But his rhetorical message falls on obdurately deaf ears, and his appeals slowly lose hope. A superb literary artist to the end, Ovid offers an authentic, unforgettable panorama of the death-in-life he endured at Tomis.More editions of The Poems Of Exile: Tristia And The Black Sea Letters:
The Poems of Sextus Propertiusby Sextus Propertius, J.P. McCullochISBN 0520017145 (0-520-01714-5)
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The Prehistory of the Balkans: The Middle East and the Aegean World, Tenth to Eighth Centuries B.C.by John BoardmanISBN 0521224969 (0-521-22496-9)
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Propertius in Love: The Elegiesby David R. Slavitt, Sextus Propertius, Matthew S. SantiroccoISBN 0520228790 (0-520-22879-0)
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Ramayanaby William Buck, Shirley Triest, B. A. Van NootenISBN 0520227034 (0-520-22703-4)
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In "Ramayana (written by a poet known to us as Valmiki), William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama--with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil--in a length and manner that will make the great Indian epics accessible to the contemporary reader.
The same is true for the "Mahabharata--in its original Sanskrit, probably the longest Indian epic ever composed. It is the story of a dynastic struggle, between the Kurus and Pandavas, for land. In his introduction, Sanskritist B. A. van Nooten notes, "Apart from William Buck's rendition [no other English version has] been able to capture the blend of religion and martial spirit that pervades the original epic."
Presented accessibly for the general reader without compromising the spirit and lyricism of the originals, William Buck's "Ramayana and "Mahabharata capture the essence of the Indian cultural heritage. [via]
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Reading Greekby Joint Association of Classical TeachersISBN 0521219760 (0-521-21976-0)
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Reading Greek: Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercisesby Joint Association of Classical TeachersISBN 0521219779 (0-521-21977-9)
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Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cueniform to the Alphabetby J.T. HookerISBN 0520074319 (0-520-07431-9)
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The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Cultureby Peter Garnsey, Richard SallerISBN 0520060679 (0-520-06067-9)
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Roman Italyby T.W. PotterISBN 0520069757 (0-520-06975-7)
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Roman Republican Coinageby Michael H. CrawfordISBN 0521074924 (0-521-07492-4)
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The Roman Villa: An Historical Introductionby John PercivalISBN 0520032330 (0-520-03233-0)
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The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socratesby Mark Henderson MunnISBN 0520236858 (0-520-23685-8)
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The Shadow of the Parthenon: Studies in Ancient History and Literatureby Peter GreenISBN 0520023226 (0-520-02322-6)
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Shame and Necessityby Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0520088301 (0-520-08830-1)
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Stoicismby John SellarsISBN 0520249089 (0-520-24908-9)
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Wisdom of the Westby Bertrand RussellISBN 0517690411 (0-517-69041-1)
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World of Heroes: Selections from Homer Herodutus and Sophoclesby Joint Association of Classical Teachers, Homer, Herodotus, SophoclesISBN 0521224624 (0-521-22462-4)
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