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Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World
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Indian history students used to ask "who was Alexander the Great's cook during his Indian invasion?" or "Who stabbed him during the war" which eventually led to end of his tour of India. Idea is that even small people matters in the high history and Vicki Leon's "Working IX to V" is a book all about these kinds of "small people". This book describes wi... »
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Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural History
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Wow, what a masterpiece! I started my self-conducted study of ancient Greek history with a different textbook. A good one but it did not impress me quite as much as this one. Written in a clear and fluent language, covering the whole range of Greece's ancient histoy and enriched with excellent pictures and diagrams, it makes the reading not only hig... »
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On Sparta (Penguin Classics)
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Plutarch's book tells the immensely sad story of the relentless warring between the Greek City States: Alas for Greece, how many men have you killed with your own hands.'
His masterly brushed picture of Sparta is not less than astonishing. Sparta has been one of the purest communist States on earth.
In order to stamp out arrogance, envy, c... »
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The Greco-Persian Wars
Popular classicist Peter Green (author of Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.) offers an engrossing narrative of the wars between the Greeks and the... »
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Greek Hoplite 480-323 BC (Warrior)
This book has good information, but is small. I would actual only consider it a pamphlet. Was expecting a little more but overall it is a good basic revie... »
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