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The World of Hesiod
A Study of the Greek Middle Ages, c. 900–700 B.C.
2024
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The World of Hesiod (1936) examines the world of the Ancient Greeks before Ionian rationalism and the civilisation of Athens. Lying between the Heroic Age and the Lyric Age, Hesiod and the Geometric potters and painters set the scene for the economic, political and social changes that were to follow.
Minoans, Philistines and Greeks
B.C. 1400–900
2024
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Minoans, Philistines, and Greeks (1930) presents a historical narrative of the fortunes of the Aegean people, including invaders of and fugitives from the Aegean area, from the end of the fifteenth to the end of the tenth century B.C. It traces the gradual decline and fall of the Aegean culture, the first advanced civilisation in Europe, and the migrations of peoples such as the Philistines and Phoenicians across the Mediterranean.
A Night Out with Robert Burns
The Greatest Poems
2014
EN
January 25, 2009, marks the 250th anniversary of Burns’s birth. It will be a huge event around the world, not least across Canada. And we have the book!Robert Burns (1759-1796) is part of your life. If you’ve ever given or received a romantic red rose, or talked about a "do or die" situation, or if you’ve sung "Auld Lang Syne," you’re included.Others celebrate this ploughman poet with an eye for "the lasses" more directly. Every year, literally hundreds of thousands of Cana...


