How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
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Category: Ancient History
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succes ...Show more
The Histories by Herodotus; E. H. B (Editor)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
The Histories is a book by a Greek historian Herodotus from Halicarnassus (V century BC), the first fully preserved historical and prosaic work in the European literature. It is the most valuable source of the early history of Greece and the East. Detailed descriptions and accurate observations are put ...Show more
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins by Gareth Harney
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Category: Ancient History
The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most universal object- the coin. When Gareth Harney was first handed a Roman coin by his father as a child, he became entranced by its beauty, its permanence, and its unique power to connect us with the ...Show more