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  • Ancient Perspectives

    Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

    Edited by Richard J. A. Talbert ...
    "Contains must-read essays for all those interested in the history of these earliest forms of cartography . . . A truly wonderful read." —John Hessler, Library of Congress, The PortolanAncient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atlas of Classical History

    Revised Edition

    Edited by Richard Talbert, Lindsay Holman, Benet Salway ...
    Featuring over 130 colour maps of ancient physical and human landscapes spanning Britain to India and deep into the Sahara, this atlas is a compact kaleidoscope of peoples, migrations, empires, strife, cultures, cities and travels from Greece’s Bronze Age to Rome’s fall in the West.This revised edition of the Atlas of Classical History equips readers with a clear visual grasp of the spatial ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Mercury's Wings

    Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World

    Edited by Richard J. A. Talbert, Fred S. Naiden ...
    Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World is the first-ever volume of essays devoted to ancient communications. Comparable previous work has been mainly confined to articles on aspects of communication in the Roman empire. This set of 18 essays with an introduction by the co-editors marks a milestone, therefore, that demonstrates the importance and rich further ... Read more

    $98.39 CAD

  • Geography and Ethnography

    Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies

    Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub, Richard J. A. Talbert ...
    Series series Ancient World: Comparative Histories
    This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies.Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of DiscoveryProvides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Senate of Imperial Rome

    by Richard J.A. Talbert ...
    Richard J. A. Talbert examines the composition, procedure, and functions of the Roman senate during the Principate (30 B.C.-A.D. 238). Although it is of central importance to the period, this great council has not previously received such scholarly treatment. Offering a fresh approach to major ancient authors (Pliny and Tacitus in particular), the book also draws on inscriptions and legal writers ... Read more

    $79.19 CAD

  • On Sparta

    by Plutarch ...
    Translated by Richard Talbert ...
    Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings he depicts a people who lived frugally and mastered their emotions in all aspects of life, who also ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Challenges of Mapping the Classical World

    by Richard J.A. Talbert ...
    Challenges of Mapping the Classical World collects together in one volume fourteen varied items written by Richard Talbert over the past thirty years. They cohere around the theme of mapping the classical world since the nineteenth century. All were originally prompted by Talbert’s commission in the late 1980s to produce a definitive classical atlas after more than a century of failed attempts by ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • World and Hour in Roman Minds

    Exploratory Essays

    by Richard J. A. Talbert ...
    World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest. Historian Richard Talbert presents here a cohesive selection of nineteen essays, published over the course of thirty years, all but one previously appearing in widely scattered publications. Now reinforced by an Introduction and ... Read more

    $124.79 CAD

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  • The Rise And Fall of Athens

    by Plutarch ...
    Translated by John Marincola, Ian Scott-Kilvert ...
    Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine lives, from the legendary days of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women

    by Amy Licence ...
    "Mini-biographies of women from every walk of life and every corner of the globe . . . an informative, refreshing, and unique approach to the 16th century." — Adventures of a Tudor NerdThis retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women from queens to commoners, who navigated the patriarchal world in memorable and life-changing ways all around the world. Amy ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bombing Hitler's Hometown

    The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe

    by Mike Croissant ...
    The white-knuckled bombing mission American airmen carried out on Hitler’s hometown is now told for the first time through the eyes of the men on the airplanes – as well as the innocent Austrians under the bombs – in this groundbreaking true story of the aerial bombing and its aftermath from retired CIA officer Mike Croissant.Foreword by Richard Overy, author of The Bombers and the BombedIn April ... Read more

    $12.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Meaning of Myth: With 12 Greek Myths Retold and Interpreted by a Psychiatrist

    Ancient Wisdom, #1

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 1 - Ancient Wisdom
    Not just ancient stories—but a code for how we think, desire, fear, and believe.Readers' Favorite Book Award WinnerA profound psychological approach… Fascinating stuff. —James Sale, author of Gods, Heroes, and UsMyths have never been merely entertainment. For thousands of years, they have shaped religion, philosophy, psychology, politics, and art. But what are they really—primitive... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus