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The Hellenistic Gulf: Greek Naval Presence in South Mesopotamia and the Gulf (324-64 B.C.) by MR Andreas P Parpas 9781535352772
RRP: £24.00£20.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535352772Author MR Andreas P ParpasFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox 9781541600447
RRP: £32.50£20.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600447Author Robin Lane FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 155mm * 41mm -
Walking the Great North Line: From Stonehenge to Lindisfarne to Discover the Mysteries of Our Ancient Past by Robert Twigger
RRP: £10.99£3.86Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line. From Christchurch on the South Coast to Old Sarum to Stonehenge, to Avebury, to Notgrove barrow, to Meon Hill in the midlands, to... -
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
RRP: £12.99£7.35'The book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty' Ian McEwan, Books of the... -
Cuneiform by Irving Finkel
RRP: £9.99£5.75Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could survive down to modern times, preserving fascinating... -
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius 9780008425029
RRP: £2.99£2.49HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a... -
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 9781913097172
RRP: £10.99£7.32Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people - and the Israelis celebrate as the War of... -
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
RRP: £12.99£8.60'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny'... -
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World by Martin Goodman 9780300228410
RRP: £16.99£14.61A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution "Herod the Great is typical of Yale's Jewish Lives series: short, clear, deeply knowledgeable, deeply... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: £7.99£5.60The unabridged version of this definitive work is now available in a highly designed jacketed hardcover with a new introduction by philosophy scholar Pierre Baumann. The personal writings of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from 161 to 180... -
Phoebe: A Story by Paula Gooder
RRP: £9.99£6.80Sometime around 56 AD, the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome. His letter was arguably his theological masterpiece, and has continued to shape Christian faith ever since. He entrusted this letter to Phoebe, the deacon of the church at Cenchreae; in... -
Lydia by Paula Gooder 9781444792058
RRP: £9.99£6.80Winner - CRT Christian Book of the Year, 2023The New Testament tells us very little about Lydia, a seller of purple cloth who was living in Philippi when she met the apostle Paul on his second missionary journey. And yet she is considered the first... -
Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia
RRP: £15.99£10.93The phrase "music history" likely summons up images of long-dead composers, smug men in wigs and waistcoats, and people dancing without touching. In Music: A Subversive History, Gioia responds to the false notions that undergird this tedium. Traditional... -
Reading Virgil: AeneidI and II by Peter Jones
RRP: £24.99£22.18Virgil's Aeneid, an epic which tells the story of Aeneas' flight from burning Troy, his adventures on the high seas and eventual arrival in Italy, thereby founding the Roman race, is one of the most influential works of Roman literature. This edition of... -
From Babylon to Timbuktu by Rudolph Windsor 9780962088117
£8.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962088117Author Rudolph WindsorFormat HardbackPage Count 155Imprint Windsor Golden SeriesPublisher Windsor Golden Series -
The Complete Collection of Plutarch's Parallel Lives by John Dryden 9781505387513
RRP: £5.99£5.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505387513Author John DrydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return by Zecharia Sitchin 9780061239212
RRP: £6.99£5.13It has been more than three decades since Zecharia Sitchin's trailblazing book "The 12th Planet" brought to life the Sumerian civilization and its record of the Anunnaki - the extraterrestrials who fashioned man and gave mankind civilization and religion... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes 9781474610339
RRP: £16.99£13.00From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... -
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think... Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to... -
We Are the Romans: Meet the People Behind the History by David Long 9781783127108
RRP: £7.99£5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783127108Author David LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Welbeck Publishing GroupPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group -
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn 9781526605191
RRP: £16.99£14.00A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world' THE TIMES 'A... -
Amarna: A Guide to the Ancient City of Akhetaten by Anna Stevens 9789774169823
RRP: £29.99£25.16This informed and richly illustrated guidebook brings the ancient city of Akhetaten alive with a keen archaeological eye, drawing on ongoing archaeological research and the knowledge and insight of Amarna's modern-day communities and caretakers to... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes 9781474610322
RRP: £25.00£16.78From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... -
Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection by D. M. Murdock 9780979963117
RRP: £17.21£15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979963117Author D. M. MurdockFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Stellar House Publishing, LLCPublisher Stellar House Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 859g -
The Inner Citadel: The <i>Meditations</i> of Marcus Aurelius by Pierre Hadot
RRP: £29.95£23.66The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are treasured today-as they have been over the centuries-as an inexhaustible source of wisdom. And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism, this is an essential text for everyone interested in ancient... -
The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain by David R. Abram
RRP: £30.00£21.00A spectacular collection of aerial photographs of Britain's most extraordinary prehistoric sites. This breathtaking collection of aerial images reveals ancient monuments from all around the British Isles, as they have never been seen before:... -
Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome by L J Trafford
RRP: £15.99£11.61From Emperors and empresses, poets and prostitutes, slaves and plebs, Ancient Rome was a wealth of different experiences and expectations. None more so than around the subject of sex and sexuality. The image of Ancient Rome that has come down to us is... -
Orkney: Megalithic Marvel of the Northern Isles by Hector McDonnell 9781904263289
RRP: £5.99£4.11Were the Stones of Stenness the world's first henge and stone circle? Why has Orkney preserved so many Neolithic farmhouses and villages? What was the purpose of the huge buildings on the Ness of Brodgar? In this small book, painter Hector McDonnell... -
Meditations: The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius 9781541673854
RRP: £25.00£16.38Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and deep reservoirs of personal insight. He collected his... -
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: £14.99£9.80The greatest conflict of antiquity, the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage.The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties... -
Mystery Cults in the Ancient World by Hugh Bowden 9780500297278
RRP: £14.99£9.80A landmark study of ancient Greek and Roman cults, from the nocturnal mysteries at Eleusis to the cults of Dionysus and Mithras. Mystery cults are one of the most intriguing areas of Greek and Roman religion. In the nocturnal mysteries at Eleusis,... -
The Greek Alexander Romance by Richard Stoneman
RRP: £12.99£9.09Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the... -
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women Emma Southon 9780861548323
RRP: £10.99£7.00Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. 'Hugely entertaining and illuminating' -Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 Here's how the history of... -
Stanton Drew: and Its Ancient Stone Circles by Gordon Strong 9781904263739
RRP: £5.99£4.11In the sleepy Avon village of Stanton Drew stand the forgotten remains of the third major neolithic temple complex of Southern Britain after Stonehenge and Avebury. In this guidebook to the site, packed with rare images, Stanton Drew boffin Gordon Strong... -
The Greeks and the Irrational by E R Dodds 9781773239187
RRP: £12.95£12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773239187Author E R DoddsFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 485g -
Ancient Egypt by DK
RRP: £9.99£7.51Travel back in time with this picture-led guide and explore the magnificent monuments and fabulous tombs of ancient Egypt.This book takes you through the history of one of the world's most extraordinary civilizations. You will venture inside pyramids and... -
The Mystery of Doggerland: Atlantis in the North Sea by Graham Phillips 9781591434238
RRP: £16.99£11.08A scientific exploration of the advanced ancient civilization known as Doggerland or Fairland that disappeared 5,000 years ago. New marine archaeological evidence has revealed the remains of a large land mass to the north of Britain that hosted an... -
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca
RRP: £9.99£5.98'It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us ... without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry'For several years of his turbulent life, in which he was dogged by ill health, exile and danger, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman... -
Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus
RRP: £10.99£6.56The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion'I must die. But must I die bawling?'Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical... -
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
RRP: £12.99£4.39Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared...