Ancient Greece

Aphrodite

From the author of Herc, a Waterstones Best Book of the Year

‘Particularly skilled in evoking the strangeness and contradictoriness of Greek myths’ Sunday Times

‘A joyful exploration of one woman’s quest for home, power, identity and ultimately, freedom from fate. A genuine pleasure to read!’ Clare North, author of Ithaca

How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator

‘Irresistibly fascinating’ MARIE CLAIRE GREECE

‘Essential’ VICTORIA HISLOP

‘Brilliantly conceived’ PAUL CARTLEDGE

An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology

How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?

The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid’s Elements

Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world’s first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

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