Ancient Greece
Shadow of Colossus
As the hetaera, or bound courtesan, of one of the most powerful men in Rhodes, Tessa has more respect and…
Troy: Fall of Kings
A merciless war of attrition has reduced golden Troy to a city of starvation and scavengers. While Hektor, greatest of…
Nobody’s Princess
Helen of Sparta is in many ways a typical young girl: she dislikes learning the boring carding and spinning…
Nobody’s Prize
Readers may be familiar with the legends and myths of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Medea, Hercules, and Helen…
The Trojan War : A New History
In this most interesting book, Barry Strauss, an expert in ancient military history, places Homer’s The Iliad in its…
Black Ships
With his epic poem The Aeneid, Virgil established a mythological link between ancient Greece and Rome through Aeneas, a…
Age of Bronze, Volume 3: Betrayal, Part One
Graphic used to mean a novel of Lady Chatterley’s ilk, but now it means what geriatric me calls a comic.…
Troy: Fall of Kings
David Gemmell’s untimely death in 2006 robbed the world of a master storyteller. His wife’s involvement in the Troy trilogy…
A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths
This is an absorbing hotch potch of a book, more in the tradition of Graves’s Greek Myths than a straightforward…
Blind Eye
Is this the 14th tale about Marilyn Todd’s wonderfully bitchy and feisty detective Claudia? No, this is the first tale…
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