164円 Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, know...

1,260円 This excellent eBook gives the reader a knowledge of a huge number of myths and legends of the classicial civilisation era. Including sections on Greek and Roman Gods, Minor Deities, Heroes and the practices of the time, it also includes a large number of illustrations. This version has been spec...

164円 Aristarchus of Samos (also known as Aristarchos) lived between 310 and 230 B.C. He was a mathematician and astronomer, and was the first to suggest the heliocentric model of the universe. His only surviving work, On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, discusses this model.

11,109円 Greece in the Making 1200–479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. The first edition of this book broke new ground by acknowledging that, barring a small number of archaic poems and inscriptions, the majority of our...

164円 Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Golden Age of Athens. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato but it was influent...

1,594円 First discovered in 1900, on clay tablets among the ruins of the Palace of Minos at Knossos, Crete, Linear B script remained a mystery for over fifty years until 1952, when Michael Ventris discovered that its signs did not represent an unknown language as previously believed, but an archaic diale...

605円 Epictetus (AD 55 – AD 135) was a Greek sage and Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece for the rest of his life. This collection of Epictetus' aphorisms...

11,109円 The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias. Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, Elizabeth Carney penetrates myth, fiction and sexual politics and...

599円 La civilisation hellénique et la question d’Orient Emile Burnouf, indologue, sanskritiste et helléniste français (1821-1907) Ce livre numérique présente «La civilisation hellénique et la question d’Orient», de Emile Burnouf, édit&eacut...

1,780円 'The first example of non-fiction, the text that underlies the entire discipline of history ... it is above all a treasure trove' Tom Holland One of the masterpieces of classical literature, The Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of...

164円 Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Golden Age of Athens. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato but it was influent...

480円 Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Pericles•Pericles Funeral Oration•The Life and Times of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens by Evelyn Abbott•The Life of Pericles and Comparison of Fabius and Pericles by Plutarch"Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at...