Dover Publications, March 1982. Trade Paperback. "An illuminating and convincing account of the enormous change in the whole conception of morals and human personality which took place during the centuries covered by Homer, the early lyric poets, the dramatists, and Socrates." -- The Times (London) Literary Supplement. European thinking began..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1995. Cloth. These portraits of the emperors form the building blocks of an invaluable and highly readable popular history of Imperial Rome, brought to life using the colorful testimony of contemporary authors. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Penguin Classics, September 1996. Trade Paperback. 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..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1992. Trade Paperback. 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...... More
Little Brown & Co., January 1988. Trade Paperback. Shelf wear to the dust jacket. More
Hippocrene Books, January 1986. Hardcover. More
Penguin Classics, December 1986. Trade Paperback. Perhaps the strangest--and most strikingly modern--work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous professors and dissolute priestesses..... More
Penguin Classics, November 1991. Trade Paperback. Here is a highly original synthesis of Platonism, mystic passion, ideas from Greek philosophy, and variants of the Trinity and other central tenets of Christian doctrine by the brilliant thinker who has had an immense influence on mystics and religious writers. For more than..... More
Hackett Pub Co Inc, April 1975. Trade Paperback. "The Essential Plotinus is a lifesaver. For many years my students in Greek and Roman Religion have depended on it to understand the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The translation is crisp and clear, and the excerpts are just right..... More
The University of Chicago Press, January 1939. Cloth. Folio. No jacket. Clean interior. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Random House Inc, July 2004. Trade Paperback. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore "the hinges of history," Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining--and historically unassailable--journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In the city-states of..... More
Penguin Classics, September 1954. Trade Paperback. 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..... More
Penguin Classics, September 1954. Trade Paperback. 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..... More
J & J Harper, January 1831. Hardcover. No jacket. Cloth cover is cracked along edges of spine, and shows foxing and soil otherwise. Book's pages are foxed throughout, and pages are loose from front endpapers up to page 10. More
