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9780553807301 | Random House Inc, October 22, 2013, cover price $35.00
Paperback:
9780553385663 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, June 3, 2014), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book—which sold half a million copies worldwide—back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet.
Examines the remarkable legacy of the ancient Greeks, from the origins of Greek culture to the development of Western literature, drama, poetry, and philosophy to the Greek influence on human science, mathematics, and logic.
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9780375432316, titled "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter" | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, October 1, 2003), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Examines the remarkable legacy of the ancient Greeks, from the origins of Greek culture to the development of Western literature, drama, poetry, and philosophy to the Greek influence on human science, mathematics, and logic.
9780385495530, titled "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter" | 1 edition (Nan a Talese, October 1, 2003), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Examines the remarkable legacy of the ancient Greeks, from the origins of Greek culture to the development of Western literature, drama, poetry, and philosophy to the Greek influence on human science, mathematics, and logic.
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9780385495547, titled "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter" | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, July 1, 2004), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In the fourth volume in the Hinges of History series, the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization examines the remarkable legacy of the ancient Greeks, from the origins of Greek culture to the development of Western literature, drama, poetry, and philosophy to the Greek influence on human science, mathematics, logic, and more.
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9780739306871 | Abridged edition (Random House, October 1, 2003), cover price $29.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780739307502 | Abridged edition (Random House, October 1, 2003), cover price $25.95
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9781439566541, titled "Sailing the Wine-dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 20, 2008), cover price $23.95
9781417666034, titled "Sailing the Wine-dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter" | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.
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9783631555453 | 1 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 1, 2006), cover price $65.95
Product Description: Who were the classical Greeks? Paul Cartledge examines the Greeks in terms of their own self-image, mainly as it was presented by the supposedly objective historians - Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon. The Greeks were the inventors of history as it is understood today, just as they are the cultural ancestors of the West in so many other ways...read more
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9781575000930 | TV Books Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A companion to the PBS series offers information about fifteen Greek men and women who helped shape history.
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9781575001920 | TV Books Inc, June 1, 2004, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Who were the classical Greeks?
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9780684844534 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Argues for the study of the Greek classics in education
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9780520219137, titled "Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom" | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $13.95
9781893554269 | Encounter Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $17.95
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9789004088467 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 1997, cover price $132.00
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9780520204942 | Univ of California Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $85.00
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9780393034929 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Examines recent criticism of classical Greek literature as basic curriculum, disillusion with the humanities, and the influence of Greek literature
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9780393312331 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1994), cover price $17.95
Hardcover:
9780689120961 | Atheneum, August 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes the influence of ancient Greece on modern drama, philosophy, science, architecture, politics, social roles, and warfare
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9780819150936 | Univ Pr of Amer, March 1, 1986, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Presents an overview of what the authors see as the roots of Western traditional thought: Homer, the tragedians, Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible.
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9780819150943 | Univ Pr of Amer, February 28, 1986, cover price $52.99 | About this edition: Presents an overview of what the authors see as the roots of Western traditional thought: Homer, the tragedians, Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible.
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