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    What to Expect When You’re Dead

    Robert Garland

    An entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death-and what we might learn from them

    A lively story of death, What to Expect When You're Dead explores…

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    The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales

    The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never…

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    The Piraeus: From the Fifth to the First Century BC

    Robert Garland

    The Piraeus was one of the largest and most impressive ancient ports in the Mediterranean. This text relates its history, treating the port as an integral yet idiosyncratic component of…

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    Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks

    Robert Garland

    A vivid, engaging, and colorful description of life in Ancient Greece from the perspective of ordinary people.

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    Introducing New Gods: The Politics of Athenian Religion

    Robert Garland

    Examining the means through which the Athenians established and marketed cults, this handsomely illustrated book is the first to illuminate the full range of motives-political and economic, as well as…

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    Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great

    Robert Garland

    Addressing a neglected but essential subject, this book focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks…

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    Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great

    Robert Garland

    Addressing a neglected but essential subject, this book focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks…

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    Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks, 2nd Edition

    Robert Garland

    Brings ancient Greek life home to readers through a variety of anecdotes and primary source passages from contemporary authors, allowing comparison between the ancient world and modern life. This title…

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    The Greek Way of Life

    Robert Garland

    First published in 1990 by Gerald Duckworth & Co.

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    Surviving Greek Tragedy

    Robert Garland

    Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

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    The Double Miracle the Double Miracle: A Melodrama in One Act (1915) a Melodrama in One Act (1915)

    Robert Garland

    This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

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    How to Survive in Ancient Greece

    Robert Garland

    Focussing on Athens in 490-323 BCE, How to Survive in Ancient Greece is ex-pat’s guide to living in the ancient city. Covers all areas of everyday life in this ancient…

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    Greek Mythology: Gods and Heroes Brought to Life

    Robert Garland

    A unique re-telling of the Greek myths.

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    Roman Legends Brought to Life

    Garland, Robert

    An entertaining romp through the myths of Ancient Rome, retold by Robert Garland.

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    The Greek Way of Death

    Robert Garland

    The central questions which this book attempts to answer are: the extent to which death was a preoccupying concern among the Greeks; the feelings with which the individual anticipated his…

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    Introducing New Gods: the Politics of Athenian Religion: The Politics of Athenian Religion

    Robert Garland

    Examining the means through which the Athenians established and marketed cults, this handsomely illustrated book is the first to illuminate the full range of motives-political and economic, as well as…

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    The Importance of Being a Roughneck; A Burlesque

    Robert Garland (Colgate University)

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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    The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World

    Robert Garland (Colgate University, USA)

    This engrossing book was the first ever investigation into the plight of the disabled and deformed in Graeco-Roman society, drawing on a wealth of material, including literary texts, medical tracts…

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    Religion and the Greeks

    Robert Garland (Colgate University, USA)

    concise introduction to Greek religion.

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    Celebrity in Antiquity: From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens

    Robert Garland (Colgate University, USA)

    Focuses on the careers of some successful self-promoters, including Alcibiades, Socrates, Alexander the Great, and others. This book investigates the secrets of their success and looks at ways in which…

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    Hannibal

    Robert Garland (Colgate University, USA)

    Few people in history have achieved more yet with such fatal consequences for the cause that they supported than Hannibal. This study explores Hannibal’s fascinating but complex personality in the…

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    French Cathedrals

    Benjamin Winkles, Robert Garland

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    French Cathedrals. From Drawings by R. Garland, With an Historical and Descriptive Account

    Benjamin Winkles, Robert Garland

    A magnificent tribute to the great cathedrals of France, this book combines beautiful drawings by R. Garland with a detailed historical and descriptive account by Benjamin Winkles. From the soaring…

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    The Double Miracle, a Melodrama in One Act

    Robert Garland (Colgate University)

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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    French Cathedrals. From Drawings by R. Garland, With an Historical and Descriptive Account

    Benjamin Winkles, Robert Garland

    A magnificent tribute to the great cathedrals of France, this book combines beautiful drawings by R. Garland with a detailed historical and descriptive account by Benjamin Winkles. From the soaring…

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    Winkles’s Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales; Volume 3

    Benjamin Winkles, Robert Garland

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    Julius Caesar

    Robert Garland (Department of Classics, Colgate University (United States))

    Garland pays particular attention to the day of Caesar’s death, which can, like no other day of the ancient world, be re-constructed on an almost hour-by-hour basis.

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    Winkles’s Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales; Volume 3

    Benjamin Winkles, Robert Garland

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    The Russian Garland

    Robert Steele

    Color edition. Edited by Robert Steele. Illustrated by J. R. De Rosciszewski.

    A selection of some of the very best traditional Russian Folk Tales, translated from the original peasant chapbooks…

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    The Russian Garland

    Robert Steele

    Edited by Robert Steele. Illustrated by J. R. De Rosciszewski.

    A selection of some of the very best traditional Russian Folk Tales, translated from the original peasant chapbooks dating from…

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    The Russian Garland

    Robert Steele

    Illustrated by J. R. De Rosciszewski.

    A selection of some of the very best traditional Russian Folk Tales, translated from the original peasant chapbooks dating from 1830s Moscow by famed…

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    Athens Burning: The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica

    Robert Garland (Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics, Colgate University)

    Aimed at students and scholars of ancient history, this highly accessible book will fascinate anyone interested in the burgeoning fields of refugee and diaspora studies.

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    Athens Burning: The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica

    Robert Garland (Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics, Colgate University)

    Aimed at students and scholars of ancient history, this highly accessible book will fascinate anyone interested in the burgeoning fields of refugee and diaspora studies.

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    The Russian Garland of Fairy Tales

    Robert Steele

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    The Russian Garland of Fairy Tales

    Robert Steele

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    Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales, Volume 3

    Benjamin Winkles,Robert Garland,Thomas Moule

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…

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    Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales, Volume 2

    Benjamin Winkles,Robert Garland,Thomas Moule

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…

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    The Garland of Flowers V1 and V2 (1806)

    Robert Walpole

    Composed Of Translations, Chiefly Original, From The Spanish, Italian, Greek, Latin, Etc. In Two Volumes.

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    The Garland of Flowers V1 and V2 (1806)

    Robert Walpole

    Composed Of Translations, Chiefly Original, From The Spanish, Italian, Greek, Latin, Etc. In Two Volumes.

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    The Gift to Be Simple: A Garland for Ann Lee

    Robert Louis Peters

    Not since John Berryman’s Homage to Mistress Bradstreet has there been a more remarkable embodiment of an historic personality in poetic form than in this book.

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    The Russian Garland of Fairy Tales

    Robert Steele

    This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come…

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    Oxford Garlands: Religious Poems…

    Robert Maynard Leonard

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…

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    The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales

    Robert Reynolds Steele

    The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books…

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    Winkles’s Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales Volume 2-3

    Thomas Moule,Benjamin Winkles,Robert Garland (Colgate University)

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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