Greece category: 2003 books
by Xenophon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the more important works of the ancient Greek writer, soldier, and historian Xenophon, "Hellenica" is essentially a history of Greek occurrences from 411 to 362 BCE. It continues a similar account begun by Thucydides to detail the events of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon is the principal source...
by Aristophanes
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
"Lysistrata" is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as...
by Jean-Jacques Ampère
Language: French
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: April 13, 2015
On l’a dit : rien n’est nouveau que ce qui est oublié. Cet axiome paradoxal devient plus vrai chaque jour. D’une part, la nouveauté se fait rare dans les conceptions de l’esprit ; de l’autre, l’étude retrouve, à chaque heure, dans les époques...
by David Wood
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history. He was a general of such skill and renown that for two thousand years other great leaders studied his strategy and tactics, from Hannibal to Napoleon, with countless more in between. He flashed across the sky of history...
Alexander
The Ambiguity of Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
For nearly two and a half millennia, Alexander the Great has loomed over history as a legend–and an enigma. Wounded repeatedly but always triumphant in battle, he conquered most of the known world, only to die mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. In his day he was revered as a god; in our day...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
*Includes the full text of Pericles famous Funeral Oration during the Peloponnesian War as recorded by Thucydides.*Includes pictures of famous art depicting Pericles and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of Contents"Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders...
by Arrian, Edward James Chinnock
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Arrian's history of Alexander the Great is our most complete and reliable account of the world's greatest conqueror. Writing in the Roman Empire during the 2nd century AD, Arrian was a Greek historian, philosopher, and military commander. For this work, also known as “The Anabasis of Alexander,”...
The Complete Xenophon
Anabasis, Hellenica, Cyropaedia, Agesilaus, Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, Apology, On Horsemanship, Symposium, Heiro, The Cavalry General, The Sportsman, Ways and Means, The Polities of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
This complete and unexpurgated Xenophon Anthology with unique illustrations has been compiled by www.Bybliotech.org and optimised for e-readers. It includes an active table of contents for ease of navigation, and each of the fourteen works of Xenophon features a unique illustration relevant to the...
by Henry Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
What does it mean to be great? There have been many that have come through the sands of time proclaiming their own greatness. We see it in the news every day; leaders, heroes, tyrants, and even reality star presidential candidates claim that they are great. But what about Alexander the Great?
Inside...
by Jason Thawne
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Everything we know about Alexander comes from ancient sources, which agree unanimously that he was extraordinary and greater than everyday mortals.
The son of the great King Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander was educated by Aristotle and commanded a wing of his father's army in the victory...
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Life on a Mediterranean Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet: “A superlative piece of . . . writing . . . rooted in the Mediterranean scene” (Time).
In 1953, as the British Empire relaxes its grip upon the world, the island of Cyprus bucks for independence. Some...
Socrates
A Man for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
A brilliant portrait of the Greek philosopher who personified philosophy.
Socrates was undeniably one of the greatest thinkers of all time, yet he wrote nothing. Throughout his life, and indeed until his very last moment alive, Socrates fully embodied his philosophy in thought and deed. It...
The Hemlock Cup
Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did; in his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, he set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. And yet, for twenty-five centuries, he has remained an enigma: a man who left no written legacy and about...
by Epictetus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The Enchiridion
by Epictetus
"The Enchiridion", or "Handbook", is a summary of the teachings of the slave-turned-Stoic philosopher Epictetus (first century A.D.) posthumously compiled and published by one of Epictetus' students. Though brief, this work is universally considered...