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      Eros: The Myth Of Ancient Greek Sexuality

      Bruce S. Thornton

      This book offers a comprehensive account of ancient Greek sexuality free of currently fashionable theoretical jargon and pretensions. It is about what the literary remains from 700-100 b.c. say about…

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      Eros: The Myth Of Ancient Greek Sexuality

      Bruce S. Thornton

      This book offers a comprehensive account of ancient Greek sexuality free of currently fashionable theoretical jargon and pretensions. It is about what the literary remains from 700-100 b.c. say about…

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      The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama’s America

      Bruce S. Thornton

      Wages of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: the greek city-states of the fourth…

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      The Fracturing of the E.U.

      Bruce S. Thornton

      The long-simmering crises challenging the European Union have worsened with the 2008 financial crisis, the influx of Middle East refugees in 2015, several bloody terrorist attacks, and England's departure from…

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      Plagues of the Mind

      Bruce S. Thornton

      Mass literacy, mass communication, and the Internet have all increased the amount of information available. But false knowledge still abounds. Taking cues from Sir Thomas Browne, the English Renaissance skeptic…

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      A Students Guide to Classics

      Bruce S. Thornton

      Provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major figures and a list of…

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      Democracy’s Dangers & Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama

      Bruce S. Thornton

      By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on…

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      Decline & Fall: Europe’s Slow Motion Suicide

      Bruce S. Thornton

      Argues that once a colossus dominating the globe, Europe today is a doddering convalescent. This book tells the story of this decline by focusing on the larger cultural dysfunctions behind…

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      Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization

      Bruce Thornton

      Discusses those areas of Greek life - sexuality and sexual roles; slavery and war; and, philosophy and politics - that some modern critics have made into contested sites. This title…

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