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Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The opportunity to go back in time and experience history as it's happening would be an invaluable way to understand ancient cultures. Readers of this creative text set in the year 415 BC are invited to the city-state of Athens while it's preparing for war. After helping a slave escape, the narrator is just one step ahead of an angry overseer. However, the chase allows for chance meetings with a whole cast of characters who shed light on the Greek...
Author
Publisher
Wiley/Blackwell
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The third edition of Ancient Greek Civilization is a concise, engaging introduction to the history and culture of ancient Greece from the Minoan civilization to the age of the Roman Empire. * Explores the evolution and development of Greek art, literature, politics, and thought across history, as well as the ways in which these were affected by Greek interaction with other cultures * Now includes additional illustrations and maps, updated notes and...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Step back in time to an ancient world of mythical beasts, bow down to gods and goddesses, and take a trip to the first Olympics in this illustrated guide. Become an eyewitness to the glory of ancient Greece in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of what classical Greece was like. Children will be mesmerized by striking photography, maps, paintings, and lots of artefacts to help understand what life was like at this...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A snappy, informative travel guide for the time traveler complete with humorous maps, reviews of places to stay, and top attractions and tips on who to have lunch with"--
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 4
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 286
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The history of ancient Greek civilization, from the first documented use of the Greek language in about 1400 BCE, through the glories of the classical and Hellenistic periods, to the foundation of the Byzantine empire in about CE 330.
Author
Series
Publisher
little bee books, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Blast back to ancient Greece in this new nonfiction series and discover what it would have been like to live there! When people talk about ancient Greece, things like myths and the Olympics may come to mind. But what was ancient Greece really like? This engaging nonfiction book, complete with black and white interior illustrations, will make readers feel like they've traveled back in time. It covers everything from what ancient Greeks did for fun...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of ancient Troy, covering the legend of the city and describing the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann, Carl Blegen, and Manfred Korfmann as they date the numerous layers at the site trying to find the Troy of Homer's poem.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Romm's dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes -- and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.
16) Greeks
Publisher
Mason Crest, an imprint of National Highlights, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Introduces the daily lives and accomplishments of the ancient Greeks.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A biography of the archaeologist who discovered the lost city of Troy. Archaeologist? Mythmaker? Crook? This illustrated biography of Heinrich Schliemann - a nineteenth-century romantic who most believe did find the ancient city of Troy - reveals him to be a fascinating mixture of all three. From the time Heinrich Schliemann was a boy - or so he said - he knew he was destined to dig for lost cities and find buried treasure. And if Schliemann had his...
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