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In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world - they did not understand what there...
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"Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class spending drove sustained economic growth. Classical wealth produced a stunning cultural efflorescence...
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El anciano filósofo Pitágoras, uno de los personajes con más poder de su épocae, está a punto de elegir un sucesor entre los grandes maestros cuando en su comunidad se inicia una serie de asesinatos. Tras los crímenes se atisba una mente oscura y poderosa que parece superar al mismísimo Pitágoras. La enigmática Ariadna y el investigador egipcio Akenón tratarán de descubrir quién es el asesino a la vez que resuelven sus propios...
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"Winner of the 2008 James R. Wiseman Book Award, Archaeological Institute of America" "Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Classics and Ancient History, Association of American Publishers" "One of New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable books for 2007" Joan Breton Connelly is Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University. She is the author of Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. A field archaeologist, she has...
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The true story behind the events in 300: Rise of an Empire, the sequel to Zack Snyder's 300. The action-filled movie 300 focused on Ancient Greece's epic battle of Thermopylae, in which King Leonidas led 300 Spartans into battle against Xerxes and his million-strong Persian forces. In the sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, the action moves to the sea, covering ten years starting with the Battle of Marathon and ending with naval engagement the Battle...
88) Dawn of legends
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Blood of gods and royals volume 4
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"Prince Alexander of Macedon has battled both men and monsters, but his final war will determine his fate...and the future of all mankind. While Macedon's enemies close in from all corners of the earth, Alexander must fulfill one last prophecy that dictates only he--and he alone--can ensure humanity's survival against the age of the deadly Spirit Eaters. As the threads of fate draw Alexander closer to his destiny, an exiled queen will meet a runaway...
90) 300
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A graphic novel in which three hundred warriors attempt to stop the army of Persia from taking over the island of Greece.
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Hopeless heroes volume 4
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Tim Baker's got problems: he's failing maths, banished from Ancient Greece, and confused about what to call Mum's new boyfriend. What makes a good father anyway? Is it strength, courage and - strength! - like Hercules believes? Is it attractiveness? Wisdom? Intelligence? Does it have anything to do with beans? Let the Labours of Larry/Mr Green begin!
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"Set in Syracuse, Sicily, during the Peloponnesian War but told in contemporary Irish dialect, Glorious Exploits follows Lampo and Gelon, best friends since childhood. Thrilled to have survived the Athenians' recent invasion and as shocked by the Syracusan victory as everyone else, these unemployed potters are in a mood to celebrate. Of course, they hate the Athenians. Still, that doesn't mean you can't love the theatre of their great playwright Euripides,...
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"Hanson portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and nonconventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander; artists, among them Aristophanes; and philosophers including Sophocles and Plato." "Hanson's analysis of events and personalities...
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In ancient Athens, thousands would attend theatre festivals that turned writing into a fierce battle for fame, money, and laughably large trophies. While the tragedies earned artistic respect, it was the comedies--the raunchy jokes, vulgar innuendo, outrageous invention, and barbed political commentary--that captured the imagination of the city. The writers of these comedic plays feuded openly, insulting one another from the stage, each production...
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In his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, Socrates 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 whom everything we know is hearsay, gleaned from the writings of Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes. Now the author, a historian gives us a portrait of Socrates and of his homeland, Athens in its Golden Age....
100) Ancient Greece
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Eyewitness books volume 37
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Readers can journey back in time to ancient Greece in this visually stunning introduction to one of the world's founding nations that features fascinating information, statistics and facts showing how the ancient Greeks transformed our world.
"Travel back in time to a civilization rich in epic heroes, powerful gods, myths, and legends. Discover how ancient Greek art, ideas, science, and medicine have influenced the world today, and how a sports...
