Pindar, I, Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes (Loeb Classical ...
 Author: Pindar Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 884.01 EAN: 9780674995642 ISBN: 0674995643 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: 1997-04-15 [... more]
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Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated ...
Amazon.com Review: From the rise of Greece to the fall of Rome, this superbly illustrated volume is a wonderful account of the warriors and battles that dominated Europe and the Near East for more than 1,000 years. The story begins at Troy, drawing upon [... more]
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The Classical Cookbook
Amazon.com Review: The Classical Cookbook combines carefully researched history with recipes that are interpretations of ancient Greece and Rome. Two Britons, historian Andrew Dalby and chef Sally Grainger, collaborated on this book, which discusses the [... more]
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Pindar: Nemean Odes, Isthmian Odes, Fragments. (Loeb ...
Author: Pindar Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 884.01 EAN: 9780674995345 ISBN: 0674995341 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: 1997-04-15 [... more]
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
Cahill's Hinges of History: This is another of Thomas Cahill's wonderful series he calls the Hinges of Hisory. It is informative and entertainingly written, providing the link between the ancient Greeks and our own art, attitudes and institutions of [... more]
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians ...
Inspirational: As a seminary student, I had been exposed to many of the groups Dalrymple visited during his journey. Though we treated them largely as doctrinal heretics and schismatics, they were lifeless groups and sects in the pages of our medieval [... more]
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Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece
Amazon.com Review: For many, Greece is a land lost in time. It conjures up images of the looming Parthenon with its pillars of marble and the timeless whitewashed buildings of its parched islands glinting against a backdrop of the crystal blue [... more]
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The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics)
The usual plodding classicist translation: Rex Warner's is a pretty sleepy translation, albeit an important, early effort (from 1950). Compare the following passage (on the first page) from Warner... "But, after the death of Darius, when Artaxerxes [... more]
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Guide to Greece, Vol. 2: Southern Greece
Great Footnotes!: I purchased the Pausanias' Guide to Southern Greece many years ago before vacationing in the Pelopponese. Pausanias gives a very detailed account of many tourists sites. It is referred to on plaques at Greek sites in Greece. However, as [... more]
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The Parthenon (Wonders of the World)
When beauty was in style -- and how it was trashed: One chilly February morning, just as dawn was arriving and the shops and offices were still clad in the cold grey of the fading night, I saw by the dawn's golden glow the full splendour of the Parthenon [... more]
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Guide to Greece, Vol. 1: Central Greece
Ian Myles Slater on A Personal Tour of an Antique Land: Yes, my title alludes to Shelley's poem about ancient Egypt, but the Greece that Pausanias describes has in many ways suffered a collapse as notable as that of Ozymandias. Looted before his time by [... more]
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Greece: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (Oxford ...
Amazon.com Review: In the mid-second century A.D., a widely traveled geographer named Pausanias made an exhaustive survey of the major cities, temples, and byways of Greece, writing one of the world's first travel books in the bargain. Two millennia [... more]
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