Author: David Armine Howarth
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Greek Adventure
Author: David Armine Howarth
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A Greek Adventure
Author: Frances Durkin
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1631636790
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
When the Histronauts travel back in time to ancient Greece, they’ll need your help to uncover the secrets of the past. Join them on their journey as they visit the Acropolis, watch the activities that inspired the Olympic Games, and paint masks for a thrilled Greek tragedy at the amphitheater.
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1631636790
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
When the Histronauts travel back in time to ancient Greece, they’ll need your help to uncover the secrets of the past. Join them on their journey as they visit the Acropolis, watch the activities that inspired the Olympic Games, and paint masks for a thrilled Greek tragedy at the amphitheater.
Adventures in Ancient Greece
Author: Linda Bailey
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781550745368
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about Ancient Greece fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781550745368
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about Ancient Greece fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.
Xerxes' Greek Adventure
Author: H.T. Wallinga
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047406540
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This volume deals with Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (480 B.C.), particularly as a naval operation. It examines the traditions preserved by Aischylos, Herodotos, and others against the background of the revolutionary naval developments in the period preceding Xerxes’ decision to attack. Among the subjects discussed are: the naval pressure on Persian foreign policy; the strength in numbers of the Persian navy in 480; its deployment in the waters of Salamis related to the physical features of the battlefield and the position of the Greeks; Themistokles’ legendary message as a key to the Persian plan of attack; the quality of the opposing ships and their tactical capabilities; the battle of Salamis itself and its outcome. The book includes maps and a photograph of the area discussed.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047406540
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This volume deals with Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (480 B.C.), particularly as a naval operation. It examines the traditions preserved by Aischylos, Herodotos, and others against the background of the revolutionary naval developments in the period preceding Xerxes’ decision to attack. Among the subjects discussed are: the naval pressure on Persian foreign policy; the strength in numbers of the Persian navy in 480; its deployment in the waters of Salamis related to the physical features of the battlefield and the position of the Greeks; Themistokles’ legendary message as a key to the Persian plan of attack; the quality of the opposing ships and their tactical capabilities; the battle of Salamis itself and its outcome. The book includes maps and a photograph of the area discussed.
Greek Mythology's Adventures of Perseus
Author: Blake Hoena
Publisher: Adventure Publications
ISBN: 9780982118795
Category : Gods, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You're the main character. You make the choices. Can you survive against Medusa, a monster with snakes for hair, in this adapted classic for ages 9 to 13?
Publisher: Adventure Publications
ISBN: 9780982118795
Category : Gods, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You're the main character. You make the choices. Can you survive against Medusa, a monster with snakes for hair, in this adapted classic for ages 9 to 13?
Introduction to Attic Greek
Author: Donald J. Mastronarde
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520954998
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text features: • Full exposure to the grammar and morphology that students will encounter in actual texts • Self-contained instructional chapters, with challenging, carefully tailored exercises • Progressively more complex chapters to build the student's knowledge of declensions, tenses, and constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology and syntax • Readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides. • Concise introduction to the history of the Greek language • Composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms • Greek-English and English-Greek glossaries Additional Resources: •Robust online supplements for teaching and learning available at atticgreek.org •Answer Key to exercises also available from UC Press (978-0-520-27574-4)
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520954998
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text features: • Full exposure to the grammar and morphology that students will encounter in actual texts • Self-contained instructional chapters, with challenging, carefully tailored exercises • Progressively more complex chapters to build the student's knowledge of declensions, tenses, and constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology and syntax • Readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides. • Concise introduction to the history of the Greek language • Composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms • Greek-English and English-Greek glossaries Additional Resources: •Robust online supplements for teaching and learning available at atticgreek.org •Answer Key to exercises also available from UC Press (978-0-520-27574-4)
Time Travel Diaries: Adventure in Athens
Author: Caroline Lawrence
Publisher: Time Travel Diaries
ISBN: 9781848128477
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the million-copy-selling author of The Roman Mysteries comes a nail-biting time-travel adventure series - where past meets present.
Publisher: Time Travel Diaries
ISBN: 9781848128477
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the million-copy-selling author of The Roman Mysteries comes a nail-biting time-travel adventure series - where past meets present.
Cafe Tempest
Author: Barbara Bonfigli
Publisher: Tell Me Press LLC
ISBN: 0982942117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Cafe Tempest: Adventures on a Small Greek Island is a witty, evocative, beautifully written novel that puts you right in the heart of Greek island life. It's so alive with the sights and smells and tastes and characters of Greece that you can pick it up and start your Mediterranean vacation on page one. On a deeper level, the book is filled with the kinds of observations, reflections, and arc of self-discovery that make Eat, Pray, Love so compelling.
Publisher: Tell Me Press LLC
ISBN: 0982942117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Cafe Tempest: Adventures on a Small Greek Island is a witty, evocative, beautifully written novel that puts you right in the heart of Greek island life. It's so alive with the sights and smells and tastes and characters of Greece that you can pick it up and start your Mediterranean vacation on page one. On a deeper level, the book is filled with the kinds of observations, reflections, and arc of self-discovery that make Eat, Pray, Love so compelling.
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
Author: Mary Norris
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324001283
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
“One of the most satisfying accounts of a great passion that I have ever read.” —Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris, The New Yorker’s Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me, has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek to Me, she delivers a delightful paean to the art of self-expression through accounts of her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, and reveals the surprising ways in which Greek helped form English. Greek to Me is filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine—and more than a few Greek men.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324001283
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
“One of the most satisfying accounts of a great passion that I have ever read.” —Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris, The New Yorker’s Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me, has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek to Me, she delivers a delightful paean to the art of self-expression through accounts of her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, and reveals the surprising ways in which Greek helped form English. Greek to Me is filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine—and more than a few Greek men.
Ancient Greek Adventure
Author: Angela Royston
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408126958
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Brings Ancient Greece to life!
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408126958
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Brings Ancient Greece to life!