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1999At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history--one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. 442p.maps (Plus an un-numbered appendix with a preview of his next novel "The Tides of War") Book
1962Sequel to "The King Must Die" after Theseus returns from Crete. Book
1982Travel guide. 247p. illus.maps. Book
196062p. illus. Neat tight text, ffep missing - usual library marks Ex-Library
1974"Sappho--artist, queen, lover, teacher, full-blooded woman--is a figure of legend made flesh...in this thrilling novel of love and death." 237p. Book
1974War story set in Piraeus during the German occupation, with adventurous and daring hero who sabotages the delivery of Nazi armaments shipments to Rommel in North Africa. 310p. map Book
2001Theseus is a young man sentenced to be sacrificed to the gods. Ariadne is deeply in love with him. She conspires to save him from his grisly fate, but doesn't count on Dionysus stepping in to complicate matters. With mythical beasts and whimsical gods confronting them at every turn, Ariadne and Theseus must find their way through a maze of events that are as twisted as they are dangerous. Book
1974Inner covers lightly tanned. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and small tears. ; 256pp, illustrated.; 256 pages
1974Scholar's name to ffep (William P. Anderson). Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 256pp, illustrated.; 256 pages
1962Minor shelfwear. ; 238 pages
1962Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. DJ is price-clipped. ; 238 pages
1964Originally published in1960, this re-issue after he was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize has a new introduction by Rex Warner..125p. Text neat clean and tight, Cover slightly soiled, yellow tape shadows inside back cover. Book
1964Originally published in1960, this re-issue after he was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize has a new introduction by Rex Warner..125p. Text neat clean and tight, Cover slightly soiled, yellow tape shadows inside back cover. Book
1990Drama and revenge planned by Constantin Demiris - a Greek billionaire shipowner - a sequel to "The Other Side of Midnight". Book
1990This account traces each stage of the critical struggle between the Persian Empire and the early Greek states, from the first clashes to the miraculous return home of 10,000 Greek mercenaries stranded in the heart of Persia. Carefully examined sources and placing events within their geographical and historical contexts, the author attempts to define cultural and political differences between the two peoples. His balanced, questioning approach places fresh emphasis on the Persian perspective and will provide an accessible and informed introduction to the period. ; Classical World Series; 101 pages
1965Short general history of ancient Greece for students. 144p. map, index. Fine except for name of previous owner Book
1987Set amid the arid landscape and stony resentments of Greece in the aftermath of its bloody civil war, this electrifying novel unfolds a series of interconnecting modern-day fables about childhood and family, love and betrayal. God's Snake is the story of the inventive, courageous Anna, a young girl who has inherited both the skepticism of classical Athens and the fierce stoicism of Sparta. It is also the story of Anna's parents: her mother, a woman as remote as she is seductive, and her father, a misogynist army officer who, when Anna cries, tells her, "we are not born to be comforted." As Anna picks her way through this emotional minefield, she encounters people and animals that possess the revelatory powers of figures in a dream: the snakes her father's adjutant kills as emissaries of the Devil, a poetry-loving general; a haunted girl whose mother dies of tuberculosis; a frozen crow that miraculously comes back to life, God's Snake is a work filled with passion, magic, and terror, conceived by a novelist of visionary authority 252p. Book
1961Former owner's name on ffep, some ink underlining and marginalia on first 44pp, else Very Good. Dustjacket torn in places and price-clipped. ; 385pp. ; 385 pages
1966Illustrated history of ancient Greece for school children. 181p. illus (col) Book
1965Minor scuffing along spine. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; CHAPTER 1: PERSIA, FROM XERXES TO ALEXANDER: Xerxes and his successors; enterprise of Cyrus; battle of Cunaxa; retreat of the Ten Thousand to Trapezus (Kurdistan etc..) ; From Trapezus to Pergamum; Great king and his Satrapies; Artaxerxes III and the reconquest of Egypt CHAPTER II: THE ASCENDACY OF SPARTA: Lysander's settlement; spartan home affairs; Sparta's dependents in the greek homeland (Thebes, Athens, Thessaly etc..) ; Sparta's relations with Persia; Persian Thalassocracy; Corintian War (fall of Pausanias, battle of Corinth etc..) ; New Pact between Sparta and Persia (Thrasybulus etc. ) ; CHAPTER III THE SECOND ATHENIAN LEAGUE : General condition of Greece in 386 B. C. ; Sparta's Policy of Precautions; Rise of Thebes; New Athenian Thalassocracy; Jason of Pherae (siege of Corcyra etc. ) CHAPTER IV THEBES The Battle of Leuctra; theban ascendacy in Northern Greece; disruption of the Peloponnesian league; diplomatic failures of Thebes; Failure of Arcadian Imperialism; Battle of Mantinea; Decline of the Athenian Naval League; CHAPTER V DIONYSIUS OF SYRACUSE: Carthaginian invasions 409-406 B. C. ; Rise of Dionysius, 405 B. C. ; dionysius and the Sicels, 403 B. C. ; First war with Carthage, 398-392 B. C. ; Italian wars of Dionysius and his later wars with Carthage; Relations with Eastern Greece; Death of Dionysius, 367 B. C. ; Estimate of Dionysius; CHAPTER VI EGYPT TO THE COMING OF ALEXANDER: The Achaemenid Rule (Athenians in Egypt Herodotus jews at Syene etc..) ; last native Monarchy; Coming of Alexander; Retrospect (Libyans, and Ethiopians Demotic literature, Egyptian religion etc..) ; CHAPTER VII: THE INAUGURATION OF JUDAISM: Historical outlines (Nehemiah, benevolence of Persia, Samaritan schism, Ezra etc. ) ; jews and their neighbours; Edom and Samaria (desolation of Judah and Jerusalem etc..) ; Religious tendencies (Jewish self-consciousness etc. ) ; Priestly source and the Pentateuch; CHAPTER VIII THE RISE OF MACEDONIA Greek World at the Accession of Philip; early years of Philip's reign, 359-356 B. C. ; war of Athens and her allies, 357-5 B. C. ; sacred war down to 353 B. C. ; philip's activities in Thrace and Thessaly down to 352 B. C. ; Athenian policy: Aristophon, Eubulus, Demosthenes; Sacred war continued; olynthian war; peace of philocrates, and the end of the sacred war; CHAPTER IX MACEDONIAN SUPREMACY IN GREECE: Years of Nominal Peace between Philip and Athens, 346-3 B. C. ; relations of Philip and the greek cities with Persia; struggle in Thrace and the Chersonese, 342-339 B. C. ; Amphissean War: Chaeronea (338 B. C. ) ; After Chaeronea; death of Philip. Characters of Philip and Demosthenes; CHAPTER X: SICILY, 367 TO 330 B. C. Dionysius the Second (plato Dion etc..) ; Enterprise of Dion; Timoleon: delivery of Syracuse (Carthaginian activity) ; Timoleon Settlement of Sicily; Southern italy; CHAPTER XI: THE ATHENIAN PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS: philosophy of Socrates; Plato the early dialogues; Academy dialogues of the middle period (Republic Phaedo, meno, Symposium, Phaedrus) ; Later dialogues (Timaeus, Philebus) ; Aristotle; Form and matter, the actual and potential; objects and methods of science; cosmology; biology and psychology; ethics and politics; peripatetic school at Athens; CHAPTER XII: ALEXANDER: THE CONQUEST OF PERSIA Alexander's early years; preparations for invading persia; granicus and asia minor; battle of issus; administration of asia minor; tyre and egypt; battle of Gaugamela; death of Darius; CHAPTER XIII: ALEXANDER CONQUEST OF THE FAR EAST: Alexander, Philotas, and Parmenion; conquest of Turkestan; Cleitus, Callisthenes, and alexander's divine descent; india, from Bactria to the Jhelum; India from Jhelum to Beas; to Patiala; Punjab, Punjabi; Gedrosia and Susa; Alexander's Deification and death (Arabia and Arabian Expedition) ; Alexander's character and policy; finance and new cities (coinage) ; Empire: Alexander's personality; CHAPTER XIV: GREECE 335 TO 321 B. C. : the Feeling in Greece (antipater etc..) ; lycurgus and Athens; Agis III of Sparta; Prosecution of Demosthenes (Ctesiphon, on the Crown etc. ) ; Affair of Harpalus; lamian War (Hellenic league etc..) ; CHAPTER XV: THE HERITAGE OF ALEXANDER: Question of the succession; perdiccas; antipater's regency; polyperchon and Greece; eumenes and antigonus; cassander and the coalition; antigonus' first struggle for the empire; kingdom; cassander and Ptolemy; Defeat and Death of Antigonus; CHAPTER XVI; GREEK POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THEORY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY: Political thought of the fourth century; Xenophon and Isocrates; Plato and Aristotle; end of the Polis, and its political theory; CHAPTER XVII: Greek Art and Architecture: Classical Sculpture (Praxiteles, Scopas, Timotheus: Cephisodotus, Lysippus Attic grave reliefs; Fourth Century Doric Architecture; Corinthian capital; ionic architecture in Asia; civil buildings LIST OF TABLES, MAPS, PLANS : March of the Ten Thousand; Asia Minor; Second Athenian League; Central and north eastern peloponnese; plain of Mantinea and Tegea; Dominions of Dionysius; Central Greece; Alexander's Route; plans of temples etc.. ; Cambridge Ancient History Series; 37 pages
1979A novel of intrigue." From a small village in Lassithi, Crete, the story of a group of "strong willed, passionate people dedicated to the overthrow of Greece's Junta regime. Against the haunting background of Greece and her peoples the tensions holding these people together explode into a fascinating adventure novel of compelling realism and philosophical depth. 229p. Book
1965Novel about a British doctor who finds redemption on a Greek island. Book
1953Clean crisp vintage pbk. "This exciting selection from the writings of outstanding Greek historians explores many of the far-reaching ideas and ideals of their civilization." Introduction and translation by A.J.Toynbee. 158p. index Book
1992Good standard travel guide to Greece for tourists. 722p. maps. index Book
1976" They called him The Golden Greek, the man with the Midas touch who'd build a business colossus in the shipping of oil. For Kostas Levantikos had two advantages when he began his career in the turbulent post-war years - the soul of a pirate, and a genius for striking a bargain. A sea-novel of action, adventure and intrigue laced with the lethal ingredients of love, money, power and sex." 267p. Neat tight unmarked text, slightly scuffed paper covers. Book