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  • Troy

    Myth, City, Icon

    Collections series Archaeological Histories
    PROSE Award for Excellence in Archeology and Ancient History Finalist 2019From the palaces of Homeric epic to the ancestral seat of Roman emperors, Troy in antiquity was a place couched in myth. But for nearly four millennia, Troy was also a living city, inhabited by real people. Troy today is therefore a site of major archaeological and historical significance. In the modern world, however, Troy ... En savoir plus

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  • Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War

    Dialogues on Tradition

    Collections series Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
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  • Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition)

    Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

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  • Jason and the Argonauts

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    The voyage of Jason and the Argonauts and their hunt for the Golden Fleece is one of the most enduringly popular of all of the Ancient Greek heroic myths. Accepting the quest in order to regain his kingdom, Jason assembled a crew of legendary heroes, including Hercules, Orpheus, Atalanta, and the twins Castor and Polydeuces. With this band of warriors and demi-gods, Jason set sail in the Argo on a ... En savoir plus

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  • Parmenides (Mobi Classics)

    Parmenides is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is perhaps Plato's most challenging dialogue, as well as one of the most challenging works of philosophy ever written.The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a very young Socrates. The occasion of the meeting was the reading by Zeno of his ... En savoir plus

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