Arrian - The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian; J R Hamilton (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Reading Level: very good
Landmarks in Greek Literature by C M Bowra
$6.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Reading Level: very good
Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant; Pierre Vidal-Naquet
$12.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: European Philosophy and the Human Sciences Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Political Background of Aeschylean Tragedy by A.J Podlecki
$12.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: BCPaperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The author examines the seven extant plays of Aeschylus against the political and military background of his time. As one who himself fought at the battle of Salamis, Aeschylus was profoundly concerned with military events (the messenger speech in Persians) and potitical changes (Eumenides). In this vol ...Show more
Agatharchides of Cnidus - On the Erythraean Sea by Agatharchides of Cnidus; Stanley M. Burstein (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 172 | Reading Level: very good
Written some time before 100 BC the On the Erythraean Sea of Agatharchides of Cnidus is the most important source for an almost forgotten chapter of the history of geographical discovery, the exploration of the Red Sea and the region surrounding it by agents of the Ptolemaic government of Egypt in the c ...Show more
The Dialogues of Plato/The Seventh Letter by Plato
$20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Books of the Western World 7
The Essential Homer - Selections from The Iliad and The Odysssey by Stanley Lombardo
$15.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Reading Level: very good
Plutarch's Morals - Ethical Essays by Plutarch; Arthur Richard Shilleto
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bohn's Classical Library | Reading Level: very good
The Bending of the Bow - A Version of the Closing Books of Homer's Odyssey by Homer; Neil Curry
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A tremendously vital retelling of the closing books in The Odyssey, this should find wide readership among students, teachers, and general readers. The images are reproduced from the drawings Jim Dine made in 1987-88 from Greek and Roman statuary at
Aristophanes - Essays in Interpretation by Aristophanes; Jeffrey Henderson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: Yale Classical Studies Volume XXVI | Reading Level: very good
Aristophanes, one of the greatest and most important poets of the golden age of classical Greek literature, has remained, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most forbidding, because least well understood. This is a collection of critical and interpretative essays in English devoted entir ...Show more
The Atomists - Leucippus and Democritus - Fragments, A Text and Translation with a Commentary by C C W Taylor
$120.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: The Phoenix Presocratics | Reading Level: very good
It may not be too much to say that all the work Western philosophers have done over the past two thousand years was begun by the Pre-Socratics. The Phoenix Pre-Socratic series has been instrumental in recovering Pre-Socratic texts. As with earlier works in this important series, this volume aims to make ...Show more
Brush up Your Classics! An informative and entertaining guide to understanding the most famous words, phrases, and stories of the Greek classics by Michael Macrone
$12.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Reading Level: very good
Here is a fabulous and fun reference guide to the Latin and Greek origins of such words and expressions as "windbag" and "seize the day," as well as a lively tour through the literature and life of ancient times. With fun black-and-white illustrations, this irreverent and informative book provides histo ...Show more