Isis and Osiris
Isis and Osiris have never trusted their brother Set. When Set hosts a huge banquet for Osiris, Isis is worried.
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Month: September 2025
Antiquity
Best-selling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world – from the birth of Sumerian
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The Fate of Rome
A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental
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Athens
A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound
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The Fall of Rome
Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as
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The End of Days
Why is it that our current AD 21st century is so similar to the 21st century BC? Is history destined
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The Story of Greece and Rome
The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives
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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome
As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline
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The Greek Way
“What the Greeks discovered, how they brought a new world to birth out of the dark confusions of an old
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Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey
When first published, Walker’s versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey attracted attention for the quality of the writing. Multi-award-winning author Gillian Cross makes
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