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Travels with Herodotus
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $14.95
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to... Read more >
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $14.95
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to... Read more >
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The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika
Edited by Robert B. Strassler
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War.
Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362 B.C.E., a particularly dramatic... Read more >
Edited by Robert B. Strassler
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War.
Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362 B.C.E., a particularly dramatic... Read more >
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Helen of Troy
The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Written by Bettany Hughes
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $16.95
An illuminating, erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troy–a chronicle that combines historical inquiry and storytelling élan–from one of Britain’s most widely acclaimed and popular historians.
As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close to three thousand years she has been both... Read more >
The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Written by Bettany Hughes
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $16.95
An illuminating, erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troy–a chronicle that combines historical inquiry and storytelling élan–from one of Britain’s most widely acclaimed and popular historians.
As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close to three thousand years she has been both... Read more >
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The Greeks and Greek Love
A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World
Written by James Davidson
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $45.00
For nearly two thousand years, historians have treated the subject of homosexuality in ancient Greece with apology, embarrassment, or outright denial. Now classics scholar James Davidson offers a brilliant, unblushing exploration of the passion that permeated Greek civilization. Using homosexuality as a lens, Davidson sheds new light on every aspect of... Read more >
A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World
Written by James Davidson
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $45.00
For nearly two thousand years, historians have treated the subject of homosexuality in ancient Greece with apology, embarrassment, or outright denial. Now classics scholar James Davidson offers a brilliant, unblushing exploration of the passion that permeated Greek civilization. Using homosexuality as a lens, Davidson sheds new light on every aspect of... Read more >
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Travelling Heroes
In the Epic Age of Homer
Written by Robin Lane Fox
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $32.50
The eighth century B.C. was the formative age of the great epics of Homer, a remote and, in some ways, mysterious era. In this groundbreaking book, Robin Lane Fox takes us into that time before history to explore questions ranging from the origins of the Greek gods to the spread of... Read more >
In the Epic Age of Homer
Written by Robin Lane Fox
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $32.50
The eighth century B.C. was the formative age of the great epics of Homer, a remote and, in some ways, mysterious era. In this groundbreaking book, Robin Lane Fox takes us into that time before history to explore questions ranging from the origins of the Greek gods to the spread of... Read more >
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Travelling Heroes
Written by Robin Lane Fox
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $32.50
The eighth century B.C. was the formative age of the great epics of Homer, a remote and, in some ways, mysterious era. In this groundbreaking book, Robin Lane Fox takes us into that time before history to explore questions ranging from the origins of the Greek gods to the spread of... Read more >
Written by Robin Lane Fox
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $32.50
The eighth century B.C. was the formative age of the great epics of Homer, a remote and, in some ways, mysterious era. In this groundbreaking book, Robin Lane Fox takes us into that time before history to explore questions ranging from the origins of the Greek gods to the spread of... Read more >
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The Road to Eleusis
Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
Written by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann and Carl A. P. Ruck
Preface by Huston Smith
Afterword by Peter Webster
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $18.95
The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the ritual contained... Read more >
Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
Written by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann and Carl A. P. Ruck
Preface by Huston Smith
Afterword by Peter Webster
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $18.95
The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the ritual contained... Read more >
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The Odyssey
Written by Homer
Translated by Charles Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $22.95
Most translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles Stein employs the latter approach in this dramatic, and in some ways truer... Read more >
Written by Homer
Translated by Charles Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $22.95
Most translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles Stein employs the latter approach in this dramatic, and in some ways truer... Read more >
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unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Travels with Herodotus
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to... Read more >
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to... Read more >
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The Hellenistic Age
A Short History
Written by Peter Green
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $14.00
The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity’s great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green’s remarkably far-ranging study covers the prevalent themes and events of those centuries: the Hellenization, by Alexander’s conquests, of an immense swath of... Read more >
A Short History
Written by Peter Green
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $14.00
The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity’s great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green’s remarkably far-ranging study covers the prevalent themes and events of those centuries: the Hellenization, by Alexander’s conquests, of an immense swath of... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Hellenistic Age
Written by Peter Green
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $14.00
The Hellenistic era witnessed the overlap of antiquity’s two great Western civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. This was the epoch of Alexander’s vast expansion of the Greco-Macedonian world, the rise and fall of his successors’ major dynasties in Egypt and Asia, and, ultimately, the establishment of Rome as the first... Read more >
Written by Peter Green
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $14.00
The Hellenistic era witnessed the overlap of antiquity’s two great Western civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. This was the epoch of Alexander’s vast expansion of the Greco-Macedonian world, the rise and fall of his successors’ major dynasties in Egypt and Asia, and, ultimately, the establishment of Rome as the first... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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No-Man's Lands
One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey
Written by Scott Huler
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $24.95
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus.
No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s funny and touching exploration... Read more >
One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey
Written by Scott Huler
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $24.95
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus.
No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s funny and touching exploration... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Thermopylae
The Battle That Changed the World
Written by Paul Cartledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.00
In 480 B.C., the mighty Persian king Xerxes led a massive force to the narrow mountain pass called Thermopylae, anticipating no significant resistance in his bid to conquer Greece. But the Greeks, led by Leonidas and a small army of Spartan warriors, took the battle to the Persians and nearly halted... Read more >
The Battle That Changed the World
Written by Paul Cartledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.00
In 480 B.C., the mighty Persian king Xerxes led a massive force to the narrow mountain pass called Thermopylae, anticipating no significant resistance in his bid to conquer Greece. But the Greeks, led by Leonidas and a small army of Spartan warriors, took the battle to the Persians and nearly halted... Read more >
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Persian Fire
The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Written by Tom Holland
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.95
In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece.
The... Read more >
The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Written by Tom Holland
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.95
In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece.
The... Read more >
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eBook.
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Persian Fire
Written by Tom Holland
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.95
In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms... Read more >
Written by Tom Holland
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.95
In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Travels with Herodotus
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2007
Price: $25.00
From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain.
Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther... Read more >
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2007
Price: $25.00
From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain.
Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Helen of Troy
The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Written by Bettany Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $16.95
For 3,000 years, the woman known as Helen of Troy has been both the ideal symbol of beauty and a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.
In her search for the identity behind this mythic figure, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes uses Homer’s account of Helen’s life to frame her own... Read more >
The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Written by Bettany Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $16.95
For 3,000 years, the woman known as Helen of Troy has been both the ideal symbol of beauty and a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.
In her search for the identity behind this mythic figure, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes uses Homer’s account of Helen’s life to frame her own... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A War Like No Other
How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Written by Victor Hanson
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $17.00
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like... Read more >
How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Written by Victor Hanson
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $17.00
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like... Read more >
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Alexander the Great
Written by Paul Cartledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $16.00
Paul Cartledge, one of the world’s foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 BC), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and founder of a new world order.
Alexander's legacy has had a major impact on military tacticians, scholars, statesmen, adventurers, authors, and... Read more >
Written by Paul Cartledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $16.00
Paul Cartledge, one of the world’s foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 BC), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and founder of a new world order.
Alexander's legacy has had a major impact on military tacticians, scholars, statesmen, adventurers, authors, and... Read more >
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Alexander
The Ambiguity of Greatness
Written by Guy Maclean Rogers
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $15.95
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... Read more >
The Ambiguity of Greatness
Written by Guy Maclean Rogers
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $15.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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War and the Iliad
Written by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff
Translated by Mary McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2005
Price: $14.95
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.
Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works--an inspired analysis... Read more >
Written by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff
Translated by Mary McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2005
Price: $14.95
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.
Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works--an inspired analysis... Read more >
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Alexander
The Ambiguity of Greatness
Written by Guy Maclean Rogers
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $15.95
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... Read more >
The Ambiguity of Greatness
Written by Guy Maclean Rogers
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $15.95
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... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Spartans
The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece
Written by Paul Cartledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $15.95
The Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, and extreme toughness. This book, written by one of the world’s leading experts on Sparta, traces the rise and fall of Spartan society and explores the tremendous influence the Spartans had... Read more >
The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece
Written by Paul Cartledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $15.95
The Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, and extreme toughness. This book, written by one of the world’s leading experts on Sparta, traces the rise and fall of Spartan society and explores the tremendous influence the Spartans had... Read more >
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
Why the Greeks Matter
Written by Thomas Cahill
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2004
Price: $16.00
In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.
In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors... Read more >
Why the Greeks Matter
Written by Thomas Cahill
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2004
Price: $16.00
In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.
In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors... Read more >
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The World of Odysseus
Written by M.I. Finley
Introduction by Bernard Knox
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2002
Price: $14.95
The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the... Read more >
Written by M.I. Finley
Introduction by Bernard Knox
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2002
Price: $14.95
The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the... Read more >
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