The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization"-and for good reason. It was a time and place of earth-shaking changes for humankind: the beginnings of writing and law, kingship and bureaucracy, diplomacy and state-sponsored warfare, mathematics and literature. This Very Short Introduction offers a fascinating account of this momentous period in human history.
The Ancient Near East
Epic of the Earth : Reading Homer's "Iliad" in the Fight for a Dying World
Edith Hall
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Plato and the Tyrant : The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
James Romm
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The Common Reader : "Volume 2"
Virginia Woolf
audiobook
The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses
Patrick Hastings
audiobook
The Chinese Must Go
Beth Lew-Williams
audiobook
Greek Drama
Peter Meineck
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Classical Mythology
Peter Meineck
audiobook
One Writer's Beginnings
Eudora Welty
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The Mysteries of Eleusis and Bacchus
Thomas Taylor
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf : A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Rebecca Romney
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Light in Gaza : Writings Born of Fire
Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze
audiobook
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
Theodore Papakostas
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