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The riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code / by Fox, Margalit.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.
Subjects: Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941.; Kober, Alice, 1906-1950.; Ventris, Michael.; Archaeologists; Archaeologists; Civilization, Mycenaean.; Inscriptions, Linear B; Women linguists;
© 2013., HarperCollins,
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The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.What unique circumstance - unknown before or since in human history - made the Greek Dark Ages so "dark"? And how do we "do" the history of a time and place that is so obscured from our view? Surprisingly, we know a good deal.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Education films.; Social sciences.; History, Ancient.; Education.; Instructional films.;
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Before we were innocent / by Berman, Ella,author.;
"A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this new novel from Ella Berman ... Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared of having any involvement in their friend Evangeline's death. But that didn't stop the media from ripping apart their teenage lives like vultures. While the girls were never convicted, Joni, ever the opportunist, capitalized on her newfound infamy to become a motivational speaker. Bess, on the other hand, resolved to make her life as small and controlled as possible so she wouldn't risk losing everything all over again. And it almost worked ... Except now Joni is tangled up in a crime eerily similar to that one fateful night in Greece. And when she asks Bess to come back to LA to support her, Bess has a decision to make. Is it finally time to face up to what happened that night, exposing herself as the young woman she once was and maybe still is? And what happens if she doesn't like what she finds?"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Best friends; Death; Psychic trauma; Secrecy;
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Pheme the gossip / by Holub, Joan.; Williams, Suzanne,1953-;
"Ages 8-12"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Gossip; Goddesses, Greek; Schools; Mythology, Greek;
© 2013., Simon and Schuster Childrens Pub.,
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Goddess / by Hemming, Deborah,1989-author.;
"On a flight to New York at the end of her first book tour, up-and-coming writer Agnes Oliver meets Jack Verity, the handsome filmmaker and ex-husband of Geia Stone, a famous actress turned wellness guru, whose popular lifestyle brand Goddess promotes controversial therapies and expensive beauty tools in the name of self-care and inner nourishment. Jack invites Agnes to a party in the Hamptons, where she meets Geia and finds herself welcomed into the guru's inner circle. That summer, Geia arranges for Agnes to attend the Goddess summit, an exclusive wellness retreat held on a remote Greek island. There, Agnes observes many strange happenings she can't explain, as one by one the other guests seem to fall under the spell of their enchanting host. When Agnes begins to discover who Geia really is, she realizes it's up to her to protect the other women at the summit from an unexpected and unwelcome fate. A propulsive and captivating story about beauty and influence, self-doubt and seduction, Goddess is the electrifying new novel from a talented writer to watch."--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Friendship; Islands; Spiritual retreats; Therapeutics; Women authors;
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Aphrodite & the magical box / by Holub, Joan.; Williams, Suzanne,1953-; Chen, Yuyi(Artist);
Ages 5-8.LSC
Subjects: Goddesses, Greek; Gods, Greek; Mythology, Greek;
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Persephone & the evil king / by Holub, Joan.; Williams, Suzanne,1953-; Chen, Yuyi(Artist);
Ages 5-8.LSC
Subjects: Goddesses, Greek; Gods, Greek; Mythology, Greek;
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Wings of Olympus / by George, K.(Kallie),1983-;
Take flight with Pippa and her winged horse in this heartfelt two-book series about a young girl who must win the hardest race in ancient Greece in order to stay with her closest friend.Ages 8-12.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Horses; Gods; Orphans;
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Hour of the Olympics / by Osborne, Mary Pope; Murdocca, Sal;
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in Ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not supposed to do.Reading level : 2.3
Subjects: Olympics; Time travel; Sex role; Magic; Tree houses;
© c1998., Random House,
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How to be : life lessons from the early Greeks / by Nicolson, Adam,1957-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbour-cities, that way of thinking began to change. Men (and some women) decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own worrying and thinking minds to the conundrums of life. These great innovators shaped the beginnings of philosophy. Through the questioning voyager Odysseus, Homer explored how we might navigate our way through the world. Heraclitus in Ephesus was the first to consider the interrelatedness of things. Xenophanes of Colophon was the first champion of civility. In Lesbos, the Aegean island of Sappho and Alcaeus, the early lyric poets asked themselves 'How can I be true to myself?' In Samos, Pythagoras imagined an everlasting soul and took his ideas to Italy where they flowered again in surprising and radical forms. Prize-winning writer Adam Nicolson travels through this transforming world and asks what light these ancient thinkers can throw on our deepest preconceptions. Sparkling with maps, photographs and artwork, How to Be is a journey into the origins of Western thought. Hugely formative ideas emerged in these harbour-cities: fluidity of mind, the search for coherence, a need for the just city, a recognition of the mutability of things, a belief in the reality of the ideal--all became the Greeks' legacy to the world. Born out of a rough, dynamic--and often cruel--moment in human history, it was the dawn of enquiry, where these fundamental questions about self, city and cosmos, asked for the first time, became, as they remain, the unlikely bedrock of understanding."--
Subjects: Heraclitus, of Ephesus.; Homer; Sappho; Civilization, Western;
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