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Anabasisby XenophonISBN 1425000665 (1-4250-0066-5)
Softcover, ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anabasis'Book summary:Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes. Xenophon, one of three remaining leaders elected by the soldiers, played an instrumental role in encouraging the Greek army of 10,000 to march north across foodless deserts and snow-filled mountain passes towards the Black Sea and the comparative security of its Greek shoreline cities. [via]
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The Ancient Greeksby Moses I. FinleyISBN 0140137076 (0-14-013707-6)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Campaigns of Alexanderby Flavius ArrianusISBN 0140442537 (0-14-044253-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Campaigns of Alexander'Book summary:[via]His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable
Although written over four hundred years after Alexanders death, Arrians Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrians own experience as a military commander gave him unique insights into the life of the worlds greatest conqueror. He tells of Alexanders violent suppression of the Theban rebellion, his total defeat of Persia, and his campaigns through Egypt, India and Babylon establishing new cities and destroying others in his path. While Alexander emerges from this record as an unparalleled and charismatic leader, Arrian succeeds brilliantly in creating an objective and fully rounded portrait of a man of boundless ambition, who was exposed to the temptations of power and worshipped as a god in his own lifetime.
Aubrey de Sélincourts vivid translation is accompanied by J. R. Hamiltons introduction, which discusses Arrians life and times, his synthesis of other classical sources and the composition of Alexanders army. The edition also includes maps, a list for further reading and a detailed index.
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Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranasby Cornelia Dimmitt, J.A.B. Van BuitenenISBN 0877221170 (0-87722-117-0)
Hardcover, Temple University Press
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Complete Writings: The Peloponnesian Warby Thucydides, Richard CrawleyISBN 0394309510 (0-394-30951-0)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athensby James DavidsonISBN 0060977663 (0-06-097766-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Expedition of Cyrusby Xenophon, Robin Waterfield, Tim RoodISBN 0192824309 (0-19-282430-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Expedition of Cyrus'Book summary:The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the epic march of the Ten Thousand, an army recruited at the end of the fifth century BC by a young Persian prince, Cyrus, who rose in revolt agains his brother, the King of Persia. After Cyrus' death, the army is left stranded in the desert of Mespotamia, a thousand miles from home. Their long march, across mountains and plateaus to the sight of "The sea! The sea!," and back to the fringes of the Greek world, is the most excititng adventure story to survive from the ancient world.
This new translation of Xenophon's most famous work offers a gripping narrative and a unique insight into the character of a Greek army struggling to survive in an alien world.
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentariesby Herodotus, Walter Blanco, Jennifer Tolbert RobertsISBN 0393959465 (0-393-95946-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition offers an introduction to Herodotus for students approaching the history of Western Civilization or classical Greece for the first time. It features a new translation and selection of Herodotuss The Histories by Walter Blanco, supplemented by critical works chosen by Jennifer Roberts.
Walter Blanco's translation manages both to remain true to the spirit and letter of the original Greek and to be readily understandable to American students.
The selections from The Histories show Herodotus as ethnographer and as narrative historian, including his rich descriptions of Egyptian civilization and its contributions to Greek culture and his dramatic account of the Persian wars
"Backgrounds and Commentaries" provide students with a context for understanding Herodotuss place at the genesis of the historical narrative tradition. Great classical accounts by Aeschylus, Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plutarch serve as comparative pieces in early historical narrative while critical commentaries by modern scholarsincluding Hume, Mill, Macaulay, Collingwood, Momigliano, Ferrill, and othersengage students in the debate over Herodotuss historical authority.
A master Map, Chronology of Events, Glossary of names, places, and terms, and explanatory footnotes facilitate the students understanding of this work. A Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study. [via]More editions of Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries:
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Herodotus: The Historiesby John Marincola, HerodutusISBN 0140446389 (0-14-044638-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herodotus: The Histories'Book summary:During the fifth century BC, a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city-states united to repel a mighty Persian army. While the story of this heroic drama forms the main theme of Herodotus' narrative, the author's curiosity fleshes out the text with digressions, folk tales and stories. [via]
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Herodotus: The Persian Warby W. ShepherdISBN 0521281946 (0-521-28194-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herodotus: The Persian War'Book summary:Selections from Herodotus' History which follow the events of the great war between the Greeks and the Persians. The translated extracts include Herodotus' descriptions of the preparations for war and of the great land- and sea-battles which took place. Linking commentaries explain Greek and Persian strategies and battle manoeuvres. Background information on the ships and on the soldiers fighting in the war is also given. [via]
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Historiaeby Karl HudeISBN 0198145268 (0-19-814526-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Historiae'Book summary:Herodotus of Halicarnassus was an Ionian traveler and storyteller who lived in the 5th century BC 484 BC-ca. 425 BC . He is almost exclusively known for writing The Histories, a collection of 'inquiries' about the places and peoples he encountered during his wide-ranging travels around the Mediterranean littoral and into Mesopotamia. [via]
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The Historiesby HerodotusISBN 1593081022 (1-59308-102-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Histories'Book summary:Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest language in the world? Why did Leonidas and his 300 Spartans spend the morning before the battle of Thermopylae combing their hair? Why did every Babylonian woman have to sit in the Temple of Aphrodite until a man threw a coin into her lap, and how long was she likely to sit there? And what is the best way to kill a crocodile? This wide-ranging history provides the answers to all these fascinating questions as well as providing many fascinating insights into the Ancient World. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Histories: ISBN 0375400613 (0-375-40061-3)
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Historiesby Hugh Bowden, George RawlinsonISBN 0460871706 (0-460-87170-6)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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The History: Herodotusby Herodotus, David GreneISBN 0226327728 (0-226-32772-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History: Herodotus'Book summary:Herodotus of Halicarnassus was born about 484 B.C. and died some 60 years later. He traveled over much of the known ancient world, making trips to places such as southern Italy, lower Egypt, and the Caucasus. His great History, the first major prose work in world literature, is an account of his world at the time of the Persian Wars. The book, here ably translated by University of Chicago scholar David Grene, earned Herodotus the epithet "The Father of History" in ancient times. He distinguishes between the things seen with his own eyes and those of which he had only heard. But he was often too credulous of things told to him by his peers along the way, for which reason his younger contemporary Thucydides called him "The Father of Lies." Renowned in his own time for his humanity and wide-ranging curiosity, Herodotus shows an insatiable appetite for both useful information and a good yarn, and The History is a starting point for any student of the past. [via]
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History of the Peloponnesian Warby ThucydidesISBN 1406809845 (1-4068-0984-5)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Peloponnesian War'Book summary:The Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.) was the greatest "disturbance" in Greek history to that time. The bitter rivalry between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, and their respective allies ended with the ruin of Athens' naval hegemony and what the Greek historian Thucydides (ca. 460-400 b.c.e.) called a "convulsion" affecting all humankind.
Thucydides recreates the often savage events of the war and brings to life its chief protagonists: Pericles, Nicias, Cleon, Alcibiades, and others. The first of the "scientific" historians, Thucydides makes use of documentary material and relies on eyewitness accounts; even where direct documentary evidence is lacking, his keen understanding of human nature helps him to uncover the truth of what actually happened. [via]More editions of History of the Peloponnesian War:
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History of the Peloponnesian Warby W. Robert Connor, CrawleyISBN 0460871536 (0-460-87153-6)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Peloponnesian War'Book summary:The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) was the greatest "disturbance" in Greek history to that time. The bitter rivalry between the two chief city-states, Athens and Sparta, and their respective allies ended with the ruin of Athens' naval hegemony and what the Greek historian Thucydides (ca. 460-400 B.C.E.) called a "convulsion" affecting all humankind. With the detachment of a clinician and the dramatic skill of a poet, Thucydides recreates the often savage events of the war and brings to life its chief protagonists: Pericles, Nicias, Cleon, Alcibiades, and others. The first of the "scientific" historians, Thucydides makes use of documentary material and relies on eyewitness accounts; even where direct documentary evidence is lacking, his keen understanding of human nature helps him to uncover the truth of what actually happened. The loftiness of its ideals, its painstaking research, and its beauty of expression have made the History of the Peloponnesian War a work that is in the author's own words, "a possession for all time." [via]
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Hobbes's Thucydidesby Thucydides, Richard Schlatter, Thomas HobbesISBN 0813507839 (0-8135-0783-9)
Softcover, Rutgers University Press
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Homeri Odysseaby Homer, Helmut van ThielISBN 3487094576 (3-487-09457-6)
Hardcover, G. Olms
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La Odisea / The Odysseyby HomeroISBN 8471663945 (84-7166-394-5)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas
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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian Warby Robert B. StrasslerISBN 0684827905 (0-684-82790-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War'Book summary:Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the great books in the Western tradition, as well as its first true historical narrative. Editor Robert Strassler has annotated this classic text to make it more accessible to modern readers and added dozens of maps for easy reference. A helpful introduction places Thucydides in proper historical context and a series of short appendices focus on particular aspects of life and war during the period. But the bulk of the book itself, where Thucydides chronicles the long struggle between Athens and Sparta, enjoys an unexpected freshness on these pages--partly due to Strassler's magnificent editorial labors, but mostly because it's a great story resonant with heroes, villains, bravery, desperation, and tragedy. Every library should have a copy of Thucydides in it, especially libraries on military history, and The Landmark Thucydides is without question the best version available. [via]
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The Life of Greeceby William James DurantISBN 1567310133 (1-56731-013-3)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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March Up Countryby XenophonISBN 0472060953 (0-472-06095-3)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Odysseyby HomerISBN 1416500367 (1-4165-0036-7)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:Odyssey which in Greek literally means "the tale of Odysseus," has becomes synonymous with a great journey. "The Odyssey" follows Homer's "The Iliad" where we find all the surviving warriors of the great Trojan War have returned home except for Odysseus, who has been detained by the nymph Calypso for her sexual pleasure. Odysseus however wishes to return to his family and loved ones who await his return at home. The Gods send the fleet-footed Hermes to order Calypso to free him and in doing so Odysseus begins his journey. Along the way Odysseus must overcome many obstacles and battle mythical creatures. Contained in this volume is the prose translation of Samuel Butcher and Andrew Lang. [via]
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The Odysseyby Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 1562884336 (1-56288-433-6)
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The Odyssey of Homerby Homer, Alexander PopeISBN 158715675X (1-58715-675-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey of Homer'Book summary:THE English version of The Odyssey is Alexander Pope's 1725 translation. As Dr. Johnson said, it is, "certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen." This is that text, the great Odyssey of Homer, as cast into Engish by Alexander Pope, one of the giants of English poetry. (Jacketless library hardcover.) [via]
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Opera Omnia Expedito Cyriby XenophonISBN 0198145543 (0-19-814554-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Peloponnesian Warby ThucydidesISBN 0075543729 (0-07-554372-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Peloponnesian War'Book summary:A masterpiece of historical writing, Thucydides' account of the war fourth in the fifth century B.C. between the Athenian and Spartan alliances established a paradigm for the war monograph. The complete text appears here in a new and spirited translation by Walter Blanco. Jennifer Roberts's introduction and annotations provide vital background information.
Thucydides' military and diplomatic acumen, his understanding of human psychology, and his narrative skill have shaped the writing of history for over two thousand years. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides supplementary selections from Xenophon, Herodotus, Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and twentieth-century journalist, Walter Karp. "Interpretations" includes richly varied assessments of Thucydides by Theodor Gomperz, Francis M. Cornford, Charles N. Chochrane, R. G. Collingwood, Albert Cook, Cynthia Farrar, Adam Parry, Glen Bowersock, Robert Gilpin, Michael Doyle, and Gregory Crane.
The edition also includes fourteen maps, a chronology, a glossary, a selected bibliography, and an index. [via]More editions of The Peloponnesian War:
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The Peloponnesian War: Thucydidesby Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, David GreneISBN 0226801063 (0-226-80106-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Peloponnesian War: Thucydides'Book summary:"Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For every reason, the current availability of this great work is a boon."Joseph Cropsey, University of Chicago[via]More editions of The Peloponnesian War: Thucydides:
The Persian Expeditionby Xenophon, Rex Warner, George CawkwellISBN 0140440070 (0-14-044007-0)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Persian Warsby George RawlinsonISBN 0394309545 (0-394-30954-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Persian Warsby Herodotus, George RawlinsonISBN 0075536404 (0-07-553640-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Persian Wars'Book summary:Translated by George Rawlinson, Introduction by Francis R.B. Godolphin [via]
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The Republicby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 1406831700 (1-4068-3170-0)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:[via]Republic, by Plato, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Platos Republic has shaped Western thought for thousands of years, and remains as relevant today as when it was written during the fourth century B.C.
Republic begins by posing a central question: "What is justice, and why should we be just, especially when the wicked often seem happier and more successful?" For Plato, the answer lies with the ways people, groups, and institutions organize and behave. A brilliant inquiry into the problems of constructing the perfect state, and the roles education, the arts, family, and religion should play in our lives, Republic employs picturesque settings, sharply outlined characters, and conversational dialogue to drive home the philosophers often provocative arguments.
It has been said that the entire history of Western philosophy consists of nothing more than "a series of footnotes to Plato." Vastly entertaining, occasionally shocking, and always stimulating, Republic continues to enrich and expand the outlook of all who read it.Elizabeth Watson Scharffenberger holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Columbia University. A specialist in the culture and literature of Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., she teaches at Columbia University and New York Universitys Gallatin School.
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Republic of Platoby Thomas TaylorISBN 1564590240 (1-56459-024-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Republic of Plato'Book summary:This is Thomas Taylor's adept translation of Plato's Republic. Plato's "crowning achievement of art and philosophy." "The idea that runs through the Republic is that the individual presents almost the same features and qualties as society, on a smaller scale, and in his argument Plato first considers the state and thence makes his deductions as to the individual." "Besides the enduring value of the Republic as a work of art, its philosophical and ethical teaching is of particular interest in the present disordered condition of social and speculative ideas. [via]
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The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Livesby Ian Scott-KilvertISBN 0140441026 (0-14-044102-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives'Book summary:Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. [via]
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The Story of Civilization Pt. 1: The Life of Greeceby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 0671418009 (0-671-41800-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Civilization Pt. 1: The Life of Greece'Book summary:The Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest. This is the second volume of the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning series. [via]
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Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian Warby Richard LivingstoneISBN 0195002180 (0-19-500218-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War'Book summary:Thucydides wrote the story of the first democracy in history, and of the fortunes and fall of its empire, but his pages contain the modern world-scene in miniature. The tale is told by a great political thinker, whose penetrating insight and dramatic power caused Macaulay to call him the 'greatest historian that ever lived.' His work, slightly abridged, is here presented in translation with an introduction and notes. [via]
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A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian Warby Victor Davis HansonISBN 1400060958 (1-4000-6095-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War'Book summary: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 his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other.
Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronological account that reflects the political background of the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events echo in the present.
Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and nonconventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato.
Hansons perceptive analysis of events and personalities raises many thought-provoking questions: Were Athens and Sparta like America and Russia, two superpowers battling to the death? Is the Peloponnesian War echoed in the endless, frustrating conflicts of Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and the current Middle East? Or was it more like Americas own Civil War, a brutal rift that rent the fabric of a glorious society, or even this centurys red stateblue state schism between liberals and conservatives, a cultural war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present.
Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other is like no other history of this important war. [via]More editions of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War:
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The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greeceby Victor Davis HansonISBN 0520219112 (0-520-21911-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece'Book summary:The origins of Western warfare lie in classical Greece, on the battlefields of Marathon and Delion, and in the strange, terrible head-on collision of Thebans and Spartans at Koroneia. Instead of the ambush, skirmish, or single combat between heroes, the Greeks of the classical age devised a ferocious, brutal, brief, and very destructive form of combat that used armed men of all ages. With this technique, they invented the central act of Western warfare--the decisive infantry battle.
In this bold and original study, Victor Davis Hanson presents a new interpretation of Greek warfare and what took place on the battlefield. He argues that the same concept that shaped democracy--an unequivocal, instant resolution to dispute--also spawned the horrific nature of hoplite phalanx battles, and that Western culture may have learned the wrong lessons from them.
The Western Way of War draws from an extraordinary range of sources--Greek poetry, drama, and vase painting, as well as historical records--to fashion the first dramatic narrative of the actual mechanics of classical Greek warfare. Approaching his subject from the vantage point of the infantryman, Hanson explores everything from the brutal spear-thrusting and shield-pushing in the phalanx, and the difficulty of fighting in bronze armor, to the mass panic and hysteria. He describes the physical condition and age of the men and their commanders, their weapons, their capabilities, their spirit and morale, and their wounds; and covers the social and political aspects of the soldier's experience, revealing how profoundly the simple, brief, and brutal misery of infantry battle defined a man's entire relationship with his family, his community, and his country.
Hanson's compelling account of what happened on the killing fields of the ancient Greeks raises new issues and questions old assumptions about the raison d'être for war. [via]More editions of The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece:
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The World of Odysseusby M. I. Finley, Bernard KnoxISBN 1590170172 (1-59017-017-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World of Odysseus'Book summary:Are the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" just charming poetic fantasies? Or do they give a more or less accurate picture of the Mycenaean period, the early Dark Age of Homer's own era? Do archaeological discoveries like Schliemann's excavations at Troy bear out Homer's account of the Trojan war? The author offers an analysis of Homer's depiction of kinship and community, Helen and Hector, morals and values, Paris, Priam and the gods. [via]
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Xenophon: Anabasisby XenophonISBN 067499101X (0-674-99101-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Xenophon: Anabasis'Book summary:Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this 'March Up-Country' (Anabasis); but meanwhile he entered service under the Spartans against the Persian king, married happily, and joined the staff of the Spartan king, Agesilaus. But Athens was at war with Sparta in 394 and so exiled Xenophon. The Spartans gave him an estate near Elis where he lived for years writing and hunting and educating his sons. Reconciled to Sparta, Athens restored Xenophon to honour but he preferred to retire to Corinth.
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Anabasis is a true story of remarkable adventures. Hellenica, a history of Greek affairs from 411 to 362, begins as a continuation of Thucydides' account. There are four works on Socrates (collected in Volume IV of the Loeb Xenophon edition). In Memorabilia Xenophon adds to Plato's picture of Socrates from a different viewpoint. The Apology is an interesting complement to Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial. Xenophon's Symposium portrays a dinner party at which Socrates speaks of love; and Oeconomicus has him giving advice on household management and married life. Cyropaedia, a historical romance on the education of Cyrus (the Elder), reflects Xenophon's ideas about rulers and government; the Loeb edition is in two volumes.We also have his Hiero, a dialogue on government; Agesilaus, in praise of that king; Constitution of Lacedaemon (on the Spartan system); Ways and Means (on the finances of Athens); Manual for a Cavalry Commander; a good manual of Horsemanship; and a lively Hunting with Hounds. The Constitution of the Athenians, though clearly not by Xenophon, is an interesting document on politics at Athens. These eight books are collected in the last of the seven volumes of the Loeb Classical Library edition of Xenophon.
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Anabasis: LA Retirada De Los Diez Milby JenofonteISBN 8476406843 (84-7640-684-3)
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Historiasby Not AvailableISBN 8446002833 (84-460-0283-3)
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Los Nueve Libros De La Historiaby HerodotusISBN 8426421997 (84-264-2199-7)
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La Odisea / The Odysseyby HomeroISBN 1583487751 (1-58348-775-1)
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Odisea/odysseyby HomeroISBN 9872087415 (987-20874-1-5)
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LA RepublicaISBN 8420636738 (84-206-3673-8)
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