26. |
PAUSANIAS,
Guide to Greece, Volume 2, Southern Greece |
£3.00 |
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'It
is so informative that it may be called the foundation of
classical archaeology...' |
$6.00 |
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27. |
PHILOSTRATUS,
Life of Apollonius |
£3.00 |
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'...he
raised the dead, healed the sick and ascended bodily into
heaven.' |
$6.00 |
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28. |
PLATO,
Protagorus and Meno |
£3.00 |
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'...deals
with the problem of teaching the art of successful living
and good citizenship.' |
$6.00 |
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29. |
PLATO,
Phaedrus and the Seventh and Eighth Letters |
£3.00 |
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'...is
concerned with the principles of rhetoric.' |
$6.00 |
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30. |
PLATO,
Philebus |
£3.00 |
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'Plato's
most deliberate and thorough attempt to describe
the good life.' |
$6.00 |
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31. |
PLATO,
The Laws |
£3.00 |
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'...this
latter work depicts a society permeated by the rule of law.' |
$6.00 |
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| 32. |
PLATO,
The Last Days of Socrates |
£3.00 |
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'The
vindication of Socrates and the pathos of his death are
admirably conveyed in Hugh Tredennick's modern translation.' |
$6.00 |
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33. |
PLATO,
The Symposium |
£3.00 |
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'...a
masterpiece of dramatic dialogue - which is set at a
dinner party...' |
$6.00 |
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34. |
PLATO,
Timaeus and Critias |
£3.00 |
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'...in
which Plato attempted a scientific explanation of the
universe's origin...' |
$6.00 |
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35. |
PLUTARCH,
Moral Essays |
£3.00 |
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'...the
Greek ideal of humanity and civilisation.' |
$6.00 |
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36. |
PLUTARCH,
The Rise and Fall of Athens |
£3.00 |
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'...a
prime source of historical knowledge.' |
$6.00 |
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37. |
PLUTARCH,
The Age of Alexander |
£3.00 |
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'...from
the collapse of Athens to the rise of Macedonia.' |
$6.00 |
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| 38. |
RACINE,
Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah |
£3.00 |
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'Voltaire
called Phaedra, the masterpiece of the human mind.' |
$6.00 |
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39. |
RACINE,
Andromache and other plays |
£3.00 |
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'Three
plays from France's greatist tragic poet.' |
$6.00 |
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40. |
POLO
Marco, The Travels |
£3.00 |
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'In
The Travels he revealed a world almost wholly unknown to
western Christendom.' |
$6.00 |
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41. |
SALLUST,
Jugurthine War, Conspiracy of Catiline |
£3.00 |
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'His
history of the war against Jugurtha, and his account of
Catiline's conspiracy in 63 b.c. are his only complete works
to survive.' |
$6.00 |
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42. |
SCHOPENHAUER,
Essays and Aphorisms |
£3.00 |
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'...thoughts
on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and
many other themes...' |
$6.00 |
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| 43. |
The
Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon |
£3.00 |
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'Sei
Shonagon was a court lady in 10th century Japan at the height
of the Heian culture.' |
$6.00 |
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| 44. |
SOPHOCLES,
The Theban Plays |
£3.00 |
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'Three
plays based on the royal house at Thebes.' |
$6.00 |
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| 45. |
SUETONIUS,
The Twelve Caesars |
£3.00 |
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'...covering
the Roman leaders from Julius Caeser to Domitian, remains
one of the richest and fascinating of all Latin histories.' |
$6.00 |
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46. |
TACITUS,
The Agricola and the Germania |
£3.00 |
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'...contains
the first detailed account of the British Isles.' |
$6.00 |
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47. |
GERALD
OF WALES: The journey Through Wales,
The Description of Wales |
£3.00 |
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'...one
of the most dynamic and colourful churchmen of the twelfth
century...' |
$6.00 |
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48. |
WU
CH'ENG-EN, Monkey |
£3.00 |
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'Entertaining
and highly readable, Monkey is a unique blend of charm,
wisdom and imagination.' |
$6.00 |
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49. |
XENOPHON,
The Persian Expedition |
£3.00 |
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'...account
of the Ten Thousand, of their march into Persia to put Cyrus
on the throne, of their total defeat at the battle of Cunaxa
and of their heroic march back to the Black sea...' |
$6.00 |
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50. |
Lives
of the Saints |
£3.00 |
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'This
volume contains The Voyage of St. Brendan, Bede's Life of
Cuthbert and Eddius's Life of Wilfrid.' |
$6.00 |
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