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The ANCIENT GREECE

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A truly unique and fascinating collection of 278 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time on one USB flash drive covering all aspects of the ANCIENT GREEK CIVILISATION.

Discover the history of this fascinating ancient civilisation, widely believed to be the foundation for Western society and philosophy. Learn about the religion, art, architecture, customs and beliefs of the ancient Greeks. Explore Hellenic culture, philosophy, educational ideals and values. Read about amazing Aegean and Minoan archaeological discoveries and antiquities. Study the Gods, legends and mythology of Ancient Greece. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, an absolute must for anyone with an interest in the civilisation of ancient Greece. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

This superb compilation of 278 vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

This is without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

A century of archaeological discoveries - A. Michaelis (1908)

A classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology and geography by W. Smith (1899)

A first Greek reading book, containing short tales, anecdotes, fables, mythology, and Grecian history by W. Smith (1872)

A first history of Greece - E. Sewell (1876)

A general history of Greece from the earliest period to the death of Alexander the Great - G. Cox (1890)

A history of ancient Greek literature - G. Murray (1897)

A history of ancient Greek literature - H. Fowler (1902)

A history of classical Greek literature Vol. 1 Pt. 1 - J. Mahaffy (1890)

A history of classical Greek literature Vol. 1 Pt. 2 - J. Mahaffy (1890)

A history of classical Greek literature Vol. 2 Pt. 1 - J. Mahaffy (1890)

A history of classical Greek literature Vol. 2 Pt. 2 - J. Mahaffy (1890)

A history of Greece - from the earliest period to the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander the Great Vol. 1 - G. Grote (1888)

A history of Greece - from the earliest period to the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander the Great Vol. 2 - G. Grote (1888)

A history of Greece from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146 - L. Schmitz (1856)

A history of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great - J. Bury (1906)

A history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest - W. Smith (1855)

A history of Greek art - F. Tarbell (1896)

A history of Greek literature - T. Perry (1890)

A history of Greek sculpture - R. Richardson (1911)

A history of the literature of ancient Greece Vol. 1 - K. Muller (1858)

A history of the literature of ancient Greece Vol. 2 - K. Muller (1858)

A history of the literature of ancient Greece Vol. 3 - K. Muller (1858)

A manual of classical mythology by T. S. Carr (1846)

A manual of the political antiquities of Greece, historically considered - K. Hermann (1836)

A new classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology and geography, partly based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology by W. Smith (1854)

A pictorial history of Greece - S. Goodrich (1870)

A short history of Greece - W. Robinson (1895)

A short history of the Greeks from the earliest times to B.C. 146 - E. Shuckburgh (1901)

A survey of Greek civilization - J. Mahaffy (1897)

Achilles & Hector - A. Gale (1903)

Address on the place of ancient Greece in the providential order of the world - W. Gladstone (1865)

Ægean archæology - an introduction to the archæology of prehistoric Greece - H. Hall (1915)

Alexander the Great, the merging of East and West in universal history - B. Wheeler (1900)

Ancient Athens - E. Gardner (1902)

Ancient Athens - its history, topography, and remains - T. Dyer (1873)

Ancient European philosophy, the history of Greek philosophy - D. Snider (1903)

Ancient Greece - A. Heeren (1847)

Ancient Greece - H. Cotterill (1913)

Ancient Greece - S. Casson (1921)

Ancient history of Greece and Rome - J. Russell (1839)

Archæologia græca, or, the antiquities of Greece - J. Potter (1722)

Aristotle and ancient educational ideals - T. Davidson (1892)

Atalanta in Calydon. A tragedy by A. C. Swinburne (1866)

Athenian constitutional history - G. Schomann (1878)

Athletics and games of the ancient Greeks - E. Plummer (1898)

Beeton's classical dictionary. A cyclopaedia of Greek and Roman biography, geography, mythology, and antiquities by S. O. Beeton (1871)

Chapters in the history of actors and acting in ancient Greece - J. O'Connor (1908)

Chapters on Greek dress - M. Evans (1893)

Charicles or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks - W. Becker (1889)

Chronological tables of Greek history - K. Peter (1882)

Classical antiquities, or, A compendium of Roman and Grecian antiquities - J. Salkeld (1860)

Cretan pictographs and prae-Phoenician script - A. Evans (1895)

Crete in the Greek tradition - T. Buenger (1915)

Crete, the forerunner of Greece - C. Hawes (1921)

Creusa, queen of Athens - W. Whitehead (1754)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology Vol. 1 - W. Smith (1850)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology Vol. 2 - W. Smith (1850)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology Vol. 3 - W. Smith (1850)

Early Greek philosophy - A. Benn (1908)

Early Greek philosophy - J. Burnet (1908)

Educational progress in Greece during the Minoan, Mycenaean, and lyric periods - D. Burrage (1920)

Essays on the institutions, government, and manners of the states of ancient Greece - H. Hill (1819)

Excavations in Eastern Crete, Sphoungaras - E. Dohan (1912)

Excavations in Eastern Crete, Vrokastro - E. Dohan (1914)

Four old Greeks - Achilles, Herakles, Dionysos, Alkestis - J. Hall (1901)

Grecian and Roman mythology - M. A. Dwight (1882)

Grecian history, an outline sketch - J. Joy (1892)

Greece and Babylon - a comparative sketch of Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Hellenic religions - L. Farnell (1911)

Greece in the times of Homer, an account of the life, customs, and habits of the Greeks during the Homeric period - T. Timayenis (1885)

Greece, ancient and modern - C. Felton (1866)

Greek & Roman sculpture - A. Furtwangler (1914)

Greek and Roman mythology & heroic legend - H. Steuding (1887)

Greek and Roman mythology - J. M. Tatlock (1917)

Greek and Roman mythology - K. P. Harrington (1897)

Greek antiquities - G. Mahaffy (1889)

Greek architecture - A. Marquand (1909)

Greek architecture - T. Smith (1892)

Greek art and national life - S. Smith (1913)

Greek biology & Greek medicine - C. Singer (1921)

Greek biology and medicine - H. Taylor (1921)

Greek bronzes - A. Murray (1898)

Greek bronzes - C. Edgar (1904)

Greek coins - L. Forrer (1921)

Greek coins and their parent cities - J. Ward (1902)

Greek dress - a study of the costume worn in ancient Greece from pre-Hellenic times to the Hellenistic age - E. Abrahams (1908)

Greek gods and heroes as represented in the classical collections of the Museum - A. Fairbanks (1915)

Greek ideals, a study of social life - C. Burns (1919)

Greek imperialism - W. Ferguson (1913)

Greek leaders - L. Hopkinson (1918)

Greek legends - M. A. Hamilton (1916)

Greek mythology systematized - S. A. Scull (1880)

Greek myths and their art - C. E. Mann (1907)

Greek pictures - J. Mahaffy (1890)

Greek religious thought from Homer to the age of Alexander - F. Cornford (1921)

Greek sculpture - C. Edgar (1903)

Greek sculpture - E. Hurll (1901)

Greek studies; a series of essays - W. Pater (1920)

Greek thinkers - a history of ancient philosophy Vol. 1 - T. Gomperz (1901)

Greek thinkers - a history of ancient philosophy Vol. 2 - T. Gomperz (1901)

Greek thinkers - a history of ancient philosophy Vol. 3 - T. Gomperz (1901)

Greek thinkers - a history of ancient philosophy Vol. 4 - T. Gomperz (1901)

Greek vase-painting - E. Buschor (1921)

Griechische Heroen-Geschichten - Tales of Greek heroes - B. G. Niebuhr (1888)

Hand book to the antiquities of Athens - A. Broughton (1896)

Handbook of Greek religion - A. Fairbanks (1910)

Hellenic architecture - E. Bell (1920)

Hellenic civilization - G. Botsford (1915)

Hellenic conceptions of peace - W. Caldwell (1919)

Hellenic history - G. Botsford (1921)

Hellenica - E. Abbott (1880)

Hellenistic Athens - W. Ferguson (1911)

High school Ancient History, Greece and Rome - P. Myers (1901)

Historical Greek coins - G. Hill (1906)

History of Alexander the Great - his personality and deeds - M. Kirkman (1913)

History of Alexander the Great - J. Abbott (1848)

History of ancient pottery - Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Vol. 1 - H. B. Walters (1905)

History of ancient pottery - Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Vol. 2 - H. B. Walters (1905)

History of art in primitive Greece Vol. 1 - G. Perrot (1894)

History of art in primitive Greece Vol. 2 - G. Perrot (1894)

History of Greek literature - T. Talfuord (1850)

History of Greek Sculpture Vol. 1 – A. Murray (1890)

History of Greek Sculpture Vol. 2 – A. Murray (1890)

Homeric life - E. Weissenborn (1903)

India in Greece, or, Truth in mythology - E. Pococke (1852)

Introduction to a scientific system of mythology - K. O. Muller (1844)

Introduction to the study of art mythology - E. Braun (1856)

Jason's quest - D. Lowell (1893)

Lays and legends of ancient Greece - J. Blackie (1880)

Life in Ancient Athens - T. Tucker (1907)

Life in the Homeric age - T. Seymour (1907)

Manual of mythology - Greek and Roman, Norse, and Old German, Hindoo and Egyptian mythology - A. S. Murray (1874)

Manual of mythology in relation to Greek art - M. Collignon (1899)

Minoan mycenaean religion and its survival in Greek religion - M. Nilsson (1921)

Modern Greek folklore and ancient Greek religion - a study in survivals - J. C. Lawson (1910)

Musical pitch and the measurement of intervals among the ancient Greeks - C. Johnson (1896)

Mycenaean Troy - H. Tolman (1903)

Mythology and monuments of ancient Athens, being a translation of a portion of the 'Attica' of Pausanias (1890)

Mythology, Greek and Roman by F. Nosselt (1885)

Myths of Hellas; or, Greek tales. Told in German by C. Witt (1887)

National education in Greece in the fourth century before Christ - A. Wilkins (1873)

Old Greek education - J. Mahaffy (1881)

Old Greek nature stories - A. Farrar (1910)

Old Greek stories - J. Baldwin (1895)

Our Hellenic heritage - H. James (1921)

Outlines of Greek history - W. Morey (1903)

Pericles and the golden age of Athens - E. Abbott (1891)

Perseus and Andromeda the story retold - R. Le Gallienne (1902)

Philosophy and popular morals in ancient Greece - A. Dobbs (1907)

Pictures from Greek life and story - A. Church (1893)

Pictures of Hellas, the five tales of ancient Greece - P. Marriager (1888)

Popular English specimens of the Greek Dramatic poets by Aeschylus (1831)

Primitive Athens - J. Harrison (1906)

Problems in Greek history - J. Mahaffy (1892)

Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion - J. E. Harrison (1903)

Rambles and studies in Greece - J. Mahaffy (1876)

Reflections on the politics of ancient Greece - A. Heeren (1824)

Religion and art in ancient Greece - E. Gardner (1910)

Rhodes in ancient times - C. Torr (1885)

Scripta Minoa - the written documents of Minoan Crete, with special reference to the archives of Knossos Vol. 1 - A. Evans (1909)

Scripta Minoa - the written documents of Minoan Crete, with special reference to the archives of Knossos Vol. 2 - A. Evans (1909)

Sculptured tombs of Hellas - P. Gardner (1896)

Selections from the Greek historians - C. Felton (1866)

Semitic influence in Hellenic mythology - R. Brown (1898)

Six Greek sculptors - E. Gardner (1910)

Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander - J. Mahaffy (1874)

Springs and wells in Greek and Roman literature, their legends and locations - J. R. Smith (1921)

Stories of Greek gods, heroes and men - a primer of the mythology and history of the Greeks - C. H. Harding (1897)

Stories of old Greece and Rome - E. K. Baker (1913)

Studies in Greek thought - L. Packard (1886)

Tales About the Mythology of Greece and Rome - P. Parley (1839)

Tales of ancient Greece - G. Cox (1879)

Tales of Troy - C. Witt (1891)

Tales of Troy and Greece - A. Lang (1907)

Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome - W. Adams (1871)

The acropolis of Athens - M. D'Ooge (1909)

The adventures of Odysseus - F. Marvin (1900)

The adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy - P. Colum (1918)

The age of fable, or, Beauties of mythology by T. Bullfinch (1894)

The Anabasis of Alexander - E. Chinnock (1884)

The ancient Boeotians, their character and culture and their reputation - W. Roberts (1895)

The ancient city - a study on the religion, laws and institutions of Greece and Rome - F. de Coulanges (1877)

The ancient Greek historians - J. Bury (1909)

The antiquities of Athens and other monuments of Greece - J. Stuart (1841)

The antiquities of Greece - R. Paul (1835)

The Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus Setinus Balbus - H. G. Blomfield (1916)

The art of the Greeks - H. Walters (1906)

The Attic orators from Antiphon to Isaeus Vol. 1 - R. Jebb (1893)

The Attic orators from Antiphon to Isaeus Vol. 2 - R. Jebb (1893)

The Cemetery of Pachyammos, Crete - R. Seager (1916)

The city-state of the Greeks and Romans - a survey introductory to the study of ancient history - W. Fowler (1895)

The classical manual - an epitome of ancient geography Greek and Roman mythology, antiquities, and chronology - J. Baird (1855)

The cults of the Greek states Vol. 1 by L. R. Farnell (1896)

The cults of the Greek states Vol. 2 by L. R. Farnell (1896)

The Cyclades, or Life among the insular Greeks - J. Bent (1885)

The discoveries in Crete - and their bearing on the history of ancient civilization - R. Burrows (1907)

The early age of Greece - W. Ridgeway (1901)

The esthetic basis of the Greek art of the fifth and fourth centuries B. C. - R. Carpenter (1921)

The ethics of the Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle - J. Hyslop (1903)

The first Seleucid coinage of Tyre - E. Newel (1921)

The glory that was Greece, a survey of Hellenic culture and civilization - J. Stobart (1915)

The golden fleece - more old Greek stories - J. Baldwin (1905)

The Grecian history, from the earliest state to the death of Alexander the Great - O. Goldsmith (1805)

The Greek philosophers Vol. 1 - A. Benn (1882)

The Greek philosophers Vol. 2 - A. Benn (1882)

The Greek world under Roman sway, from Polybius to Plutarch - J. Mahaffy (1890)

The Hellenic origins of Christian asceticism - J. Swain (1916)

The heroes or, Greek fairy tales for my children - C. Kingsley (1901)

The historical antiquities of the Greeks - W. Wachsmuth (1837)

The History Of Ancient Art Among The Greeks - G. Lodge (1892)

The history of Greece Vol. 2 - W. Mitford (1835)

The history of Greece Vol. 3 - W. Mitford (1835)

The history of Greece Vol. 4 - W. Mitford (1835)

The history of Greece Vol. 5 - W. Mitford (1835)

The history of Greece Vol. 6 - W. Mitford (1835)

The history of Greece Vol. 7 - W. Mitford (1835)

The history of Greece Vol. 8 - W. Mitford (1835)

The history of Greece Vol. 10 - W. Mitford (1835)

The home life of the ancient Greeks - A. Zimmern (1910)

The hymns of Callimachus (1755)

The Iliad of Homer - A. Lang (1893)

The Iliad of Homer (1866)

The international law and custom of ancient Greece and Rome Vol. 1 - C. Phillipson (1911)

The international law and custom of ancient Greece and Rome Vol. 2 - C. Phillipson (1911)

The Iphigeneia at Aulis of Euripides (1896)

The legend of Perseus a study of tradition in story custom and belief Vol. 1 - E. S. Hartland (1894)

The legend of Perseus a study of tradition in story custom and belief Vol. 2 - E. S. Hartland (1894)

The legend of Perseus a study of tradition in story custom and belief Vol. 3 - E. S. Hartland (1894)

The life of Alexander the Great - C. Rollin (1796)

The life of the ancient Greeks, with special reference to Athens - C. Gulick (1902)

The makers of Hellas - a critical inquiry into the philosophy and religion of ancient Greece - F. Gevons (1903)

The Minoan and Mycenaean element in Hellenic life - L. Evans (1914)

The Minoans - G. Glasgow (1921)

The Mycenaean age, study of the monuments and culture of pre-Homeric Greece - C. Tsountas (1897)

The mythology of Greece and Rome, with special references to its use in art by O. Seemann (1900)

The Oedipus tyrannus by Sophocles (1885)

The oldest civilization of Greece - studies of the Mycenaean age - H. Hall (1901)

The palace of Minos Vol. 1 - A. Evans (1921)

The palace of Minos Vol. 2 Pt. 1 - A. Evans (1921)

The palace of Minos Vol. 2 Pt. 2 - A. Evans (1921)

The palace of Minos Vol. 3 - A. Evans (1921)

The palace of Minos Vol. 4 Pt. 1 - A. Evans (1921)

The palace of Minos Vol. 4 Pt. 2 - A. Evans (1921)

The palace of Minos - Index - A. Evans (1921)

The palaces of Crete and their builders - A. Mosso (1907)

The political institutions of the ancient Greeks - B. Hammond (1895)

The prehistoric tombs of Knossos - A. Evans (1906)

The progress of Hellenism in Alexander's empire - J. Mahaffy (1905)

The progress of the intellect, as ememplified in the religious development of the Greeks and Hebrews Vol. 1 - R. Mackay (1850)

The progress of the intellect, as ememplified in the religious development of the Greeks and Hebrews Vol. 2 - R. Mackay (1850)

The public and private life of the ancient Greeks - H. Hase (1836)

The queen of the air - being a study of the Greek myths of cloud and storm - J. Ruskin (1869)

The religion of ancient Greece - J. Harrison (1913)

The religious teachers of Greece - J. Adam (1908)

The remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, including the Shield of Hercules - C. A. Elton (1815)

The return of Odysseus - M. M. Miller (1917)

The role of the mageiroi in the life of the ancient Greeks, as depicted in Greek literature and inscriptions - E. Rankin (1907)

The romance of excavation - a record of the amazing discoveries in Egypt, Assyria, Troy, Crete, etc. - D. Masters (1921)

The silver age of the Greek world - J. Mahaffy (1906)

The Spartan and Theban Supremacies - C. Sankey (1898)

The story of Troy - M. Clarke (1897)

The student's mythology. A compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian mythologies - C. A. White (1889)

The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and Athens - R. Caton (1900)

The tragedies of Sophocles - translated from the Greek - G. Adams (1818)

The universities of ancient Greece - J. Walden (1909)

The voyage of the Argonauts - J. R. Bacon (1900)

Troy, a study in Homeric geography - W. Leaf (1912)

Two dissertations I. On the Graecian mythology. II. An examination of Sir Isaac Newton's objections to the chronology of the Olympiads by S. Musgrave (1782)

Universal history, the oldest historical group of nations and the Greeks - L. von Ranke (1884)

University life in ancient Athens - W. Capes (1920)

War songs of the Greeks and other poems - D. Fotheringham (1907)

What have the Greeks done for modern civilisation - J. Mahaffy (1910)

Wonder tales from the Greek & Roman myths - G. Davidson (1920)

Ye gods and little fishes; a travesty on the Argonautic expedition in quest of the golden fleece - J. A. Henshall (1900)

Zeus - a study in ancient religion Vol. 1 - A. Cook (1914)

Zeus - a study in ancient religion Vol. 2 Pt. 1 - A. Cook (1914)

Zeus - a study in ancient religion Vol. 2 Pt. 2 - A. Cook (1914)

Zeus - a study in ancient religion Vol. 3 Pt. 1 - A. Cook (1914)

Zeus - a study in ancient religion Vol. 3 Pt. 2 - A. Cook (1914)

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in ancient Greece and Greek history – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

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