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Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
A major new book about the life and legend of the world's 'most beautiful woman' - by the new star of TV history As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject. Hesiod, a poet born around 700BC and one of the first named authors in history, called her 'the most beautiful woman in t ...Show more
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince P ...Show more
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
"As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince Pa ...Show more
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, ...Show more
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Istanbul explores a city which stands as a gateway between the east and west, one of the indisputably greatest cities in the world. Previously known by the names Byzantium and Constantinople, this is the most celebrated metropolis in the world to sit on two continents, straddling the dividing line of th ...Show more
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. Socrates lived and contributed to a city that nurtured key ingredients of contemporary civi ...Show more
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. Socrates lived and contributed to a city that nurtured key ingredients of contemporary civi ...Show more
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositi ...Show more
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans. Charting Venus's origins in p ...Show more
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans.Charting Venus's origins in pow ...Show more
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