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Publisher
Pop!, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This book introduces readers to the ancient Greek civilization. Ancient Greek geography, innovations, religion, and culture are explored in easy-to-read text and colorful photos. QR Codes in the books give readers access to resources to further their learning.
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Series
Language
English
Description
It is 1956 and Bernie Gunther has a new name (Christoph Ganz), a clean passport, a chip on his shoulder, and a menial low-paying job in Munich. And then an old friend arrives to repay a debt. He encourages Bernie to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company. When Bernie tries to confront Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war, he finds that somebody else has gotten to him...
Author
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Join Professor Fears for this riveting 24-lecture examination of fascinating figures who shaped the story of Greece from the Trojan War through the rise of Rome. What do their lives, studied in the context of their times, tell us about virtue and vice, folly and wisdom, success and failure? Inspired and informed by the monumental works of Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch, these lectures allow you to do exactly that, guided by a truly
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Discover the reasons the Greek city-states were able to emerge intact from their conflict with a vastly superior Persian Empire. Learn, too, how the defensive alignment put in place to protect those states: begun as an alliance of equals: instead became an Athenian empire.
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Series
Julius Zebra volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"On a mission from Heracles to find his lost Golden Apple, Julius and his pals come face-to-face with a minotaur in a labyrinth, must find some way to trick a one-hundred-headed dragon at the Garden of Hesperides, and wind up in the palace of King Midas himself. But what on earth will the gods on Mount Olympus have to say about the gang's antics in the underworld? Madcap hijinks abound in another adventure with broad appeal for fans of historical...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In Classical Mythology: The Greeks, widely published Professor Peter Meineck examines in thrilling detail the far-reaching influence of Greek myths on Western thought and literature. The nature of myth and its importance to ancient Greece in terms of storytelling, music, poetry, religion, cults, rituals, theatre, and literature are viewed through works ranging from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey to the writings of Sophocles and aeschylus. Through the study...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Etruscans. Although you may not know much about them, this opening lecture quickly shows how they served as a conduit between the Greeks and the Romans, influencing much of what we think of as Western civilization. Begin by surveying their world to gain context for this mysterious people..
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The magnificent age of Greece is recreated through the words and deeds of her citizens "” great and small. The eternal truths are dramatized in scenes from Antigone and Lysistrata; Socrates discusses familiar principles with his disciples; and the great philosopher faces death with a nobility that has spanned the centuries. An LCA release.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An illustrated comprehensive and accessible history of Ancient Greece explores the rise and fall of the Greek empire, its powerful legacy for the modern world, and new discoveries shedding light on ancient Greek civilization.
Author
Language
English
Description
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.
What is the nature of things?
What is justice? How can I be myself?
How should we treat each other?
Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests. Twenty-five hundred years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbor cities, a few heroic men and women decided to
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the curator of The New York Times's "The Stone, " a provocative and timely exploration into tragedy--how it articulates conflicts and contradiction that we need to address in order to better understand the world we live in. We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with what we do not know about ourselves but that which makes those selves who we are. Having Been Born...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1923 when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk rebuilt modern Turkey on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, the Treaty of Lausanne ordered that all Muslims of Turkish decent who were living in Greece be exchanged with any Greek Christians living in Asia Minor. This population exchange of nearly two million people has left deep traces, many of which are still perceptible today. Fortunately one thing soothed the resulting pain and resentment: both Greeks and Turks...
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Conveniently wed! volume 24
Language
English
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Description
"All the billionaire wants for Christmas is...a wife! Greek tycoon Leo is a businessman, not a family man. Yet becoming guardian to his orphaned nieces and nephews leads him to make the ultimate sacrifice - finding a wife! And kind-hearted Letty is the perfect bride for the job.Letty can't let her family fall into financial ruin. A convenient Christmas wedding to Leo is the ideal solution! Until their paper-only arrangement is scorched by the heat...
Author
Series
One night with consequences volume 54
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
He needs an heir... She'll give him so much more... Scarred tycoon Alex Santos's Greek island estate is a fortress - protecting those outside from the darkness within him. When he needs a wife to secure his business, his discreet, compassionate housekeeper Milly agrees to his proposal. But their wedding night sparks an unexpected fire, and the consequences force Alex to face his painful past... Could Milly - and his unborn child - be the key to Alex's...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Move from the eastern steppes to the western and central steppes in this exploration of the Scythians, Iranian-speaking nomads with great military prowess, who established a symbiotic relationship with the Greeks based on trade. Investigate this contact, as well as attempts to conquer the Scythians by the Persians and, later, Alexander the Great.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013], p2013
Language
English
Description
Professor Timothy B. Shutt explores the qualities that set the ancient Greeks apart from the other ancient civilizations. The Greeks, more than any other culture, contributed to the formation of our own cultural system. Shutt show how that society developed, what it consisted of, and how it continues to impact the modern world.
19) America, America
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Elia Kazan's own words begin the saga of young Stavros, who leaves his war-torn homeland behind to begin a new life. With his family's meager fortune and his father's blessing, Stavros encounters both allies and adversaries on a dramatic trek. He ultimately achieves his dream through sheer determination and will, thereby earning his nickname : America America.--Container.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
He's heir to an empire...if he can find a wife in time! Enjoy this dramatic marriage-of-convenience romance from Amanda Cinelli.
From personal assistant...
...to stand-in bride!
To inherit his birthright, Greek CEO Xander Mytikas needs to marry before his half brothers. With his first bride stolen at the altar, he needs a replacement, fast! Only the woman he holds responsible for ruining his wedding day will do......
From personal assistant...
...to stand-in bride!
To inherit his birthright, Greek CEO Xander Mytikas needs to marry before his half brothers. With his first bride stolen at the altar, he needs a replacement, fast! Only the woman he holds responsible for ruining his wedding day will do......
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