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Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford History of Art)
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Archaic and Classical Greek Art is good supplementary reading if you're into art history or classics that focus on ancient Greece. While the text isn't too exciting, the pretty pictures make up for it; if ever you need to make a presentation on the reading, you can do what I did and talk about how pretty the pictures were. And while the text is a bit b... »
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Alexander the Great
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Alexander. After 2,328 years who else can be identified by a single name, without a title, and still be almost universally known? Often beloved, or at least highly respected, in the west, almost universally despised in much of the east, very few with knowledge of Alexander have no feelings one way or the other.
Over the years I have read almost... »
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The Generalship of Alexander the Great
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Do we know much about Alexander the general? The accounts of his campaigns contain gross exaggerations of the number of battles he faced and are full of what are probably heroic glosses. Hans Delbruck(History of the Art of War) a famous German historian made it his business to try to calculate accurately the numbers of troops involved in many famous ba... »
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Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens
Good book, well-written, broad in its scope of the mass of contradictions we call Greece. The author describes her first year in Greece, where she and he... »
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On Sparta (Penguin Classics)
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... »
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