200円 This southern part of the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, has never attracted much attention as a tourist destination and yet it has so much to offer. Greece is full of myths and legends. Every mountain, every rock, every stream and sometimes it seems, every tree is the subject of some folklore ...

9,616円 The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World examines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636. Under the Greek, Roman and finally Christian supremacy which Hellenism brought, Judaism developed f...

1,243円 Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevaile...

2,334円 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Full of insights, marvelously entertaining . . . haunting and beautifully written." --The New York Review of Books "I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint." So begins Patricia Storace's astonishing memoir of her year in Greece...

266円 Les Orientales est une œuvre poétique de Victor Hugo publiée en 1829. Ce recueil, composé de quarante et un poèmes, est écrit entre 1827 et 1828. C’est un ouvrage très marqué par le philhellénisme de l'époque en soutien à la G...

13,265円 Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiatory motifs or structures in Greek myth, comedy an...

224円 Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. La Lettre à Ménécée est une lettre écrite par le philosophe Épicure à son disciple Ménécée. Le texte résume la doctrine éthique d'Épicure et propose une méthode pour atteindre le bonheur, en même temps qu'elle en précise les conditi...

4,791円 Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most exciting historical narratives--as well as the most important autobiographical work--to have survived from ancient Greece. It tells the story of Cyrus, a young and charismatic Persian prince, who in 401 BC enlisted more than ten ...

496円 The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Ac...

164円 Pyrrhus (319 272 B.C.) was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, and later became king of Epirus and Macedon. He was a strong opponent of Romes , and invaded Italy in the 3rd century B.C. Although victorious in the battle of Acsculum, his army lost many men hence the term Pyrrhic victory. Abbott...

993円 Introducing the all-time bestseller self-help book in recorded history. Hear what Aristotle reportedly told young Alexander before he left to conquer the world. The Secret of Secrets was one of the most widely-read texts of the High Middle Ages for over 600 years. Medieval readers took the ascrip...

4,091円 After fending off Persia in the fifth century BCE, Athens assumed a leadership position in the Aegean world. Initially it led the Delian League, a military alliance against the Persians, but eventually the league evolved into an empire with Athens in control and exacting tribute from its former a...