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10 best books like From Ritual to Romance (Jessie Laidlay Weston): The Waste Land, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy & the Birth of Democracy, The Greeks, The Roman Revolution, The Gods of the Greeks, The World of Odysseus, The Greeks and the Irrational, The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization, The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

The Waste Land
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0393974995
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.

For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition...
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
AuthorRonald Hutton
ISBN0192854496
Here is a book that brings witchcraft out of the shadows. The Triumph of the Moon is the first full-scale study of the only religion England has ever given the world--modern pagan witchcraft, otherwise known as wicca. Meticulously researched, it provides a thorough account of an ancient religion that...
Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy & the Birth of Democracy
AuthorJohn R. Hale
The epic true story of Themistocles and the Battle of Salamis, and a rousing history of the world's first dominant navy and the towering empire it built.

The Athenian Navy was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world. It engineered a civilization, empowered the world's first...
The Greeks
AuthorH.D.F. Kitto
ISBN0140135219
The Greeks, Humphrey Davy Findley ‎Kitto
The Greeks is a 1951 non-fiction book on classical Greece by University of Bristol professor and translator H. D. F. Kitto. The Greeks serves as an introduction to the whole range of life in ancient Greece and established Kitto as one of the foremost Grecian...
The Roman Revolution
AuthorRonald Syme
ISBN0192803204
The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference...
The Gods of the Greeks
AuthorKarl Kerényi
ISBN0500270481
After a brief introduction, the complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans and from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to Apollo, Hermes and the reign of Zeus, touching upon the Affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reaches...
The World of Odysseus
AuthorMoses I. Finley
ISBN1590170172
The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history...
The Greeks and the Irrational
AuthorE.R. Dodds
ISBN0520003276
In this philosophy classic, first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology & psychology, he asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes...
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization
AuthorBarry S. Strauss
ISBN0743244516
On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a combination of strategy and deception. More than two millennia...
The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World
AuthorJohn Boardman
ISBN0192801376
From the epic poems of Homer through the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical world established the foundations of our culture as well as many of its most enduring achievements. Now available in a smaller, more...
Greek Religion
AuthorWalter Burkert
ISBN0674362810
In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in 1977, it has now been translated into English with the assistance of the author himself. A clearly structured and readable...
Rites and Symbols of Initiation
AuthorMircea Eliade
ISBN0882143581
Organizing data from cultures the world over, Eliade lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of passage. The vast information, assembled so beautifully, transcends usual scholarship....
The Trial of Socrates
AuthorI.F. Stone
ISBN0385260326
My first exposure to I.F. Stone was in high school when I stumbled upon his Hidden History of the Korean War in the library. The contents were quite upsetting as they contradicted most of what I'd thought I'd known about the event. My second exposure to Stone was at Grinnell College when I saw a documentary...
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