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Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 by Alice König
RRP: £41.99£35.61This volume is the first holistic investigation of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138). With case studies from Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus among... -
Pollution and Religion in Ancient Rome by Jack J. Lennon
RRP: £30.99£25.45Pollution could come from any number of sources in the Roman world. Bodily functions, sexual activity, bloodshed, death - any of these could cause disaster if brought into contact with religion. Its presence could invalidate sacrifices, taint religious... -
The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire by James Allan Evans 9780313325823
£49.37When Justinian first assumed the title of Roman Emperor in 527 CE, his inherited empire-now based in Constantinople- had lost almost all of its connection with the Eternal City itself, and was threatened from within by profound theological splits, and... -
Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity by Sandra Boehringer 9781032014524
RRP: £36.99£32.53Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity, published for the first time in English, takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring how the work of Michel Foucault has influenced studies of ancient Greece and Rome. Foucault's The History of Sexuality has had a... -
Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt: The Old and Middle Kingdoms by Julia Troche 9781501760150
RRP: £36.00£31.58Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt uniquely considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt through mortuary culture and apotheosis, or how certain dead in ancient Egypt became gods. Rather than focus on the... -
Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds by D. L. Cairns 9781905125012
RRP: £65.00£62.07In this book, a distinguished international cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art. Topics include dress and costume in the Homeric poems; the importance of... -
Food in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diet of Early Peoples by Don R. Brothwell 9780801857409
£27.84A world-wide survey of the eating and drinking habits of early peoples, Don and Patricia Brothwell's Food in Antiquity covers a broad geographical range, from the early populations of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Americas to the more familiar... -
The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome by Christopher Kelly 9780393061963
RRP: £41.50£34.09Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarianism. But, as the Romans of the fifth century knew, Attila did more than just terrorize villages on the edge of an empire. Drawing on original texts, this... -
The Farfarers: A New History of North America by Farley Mowat 9781616082376
RRP: £19.99£12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616082376Author Farley MowatFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 454g -
Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon by Helen Morales 9780521642644
RRP: £90.00£65.27Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, long regarded as the most controversial of the ancient Greek novels, is an outrageous tale of love and loss, of Phoenicians and philosophers, virginity tests and snuff murders. This book, the first published... -
Julia Domna: Syrian Empress by Barbara Levick
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book covers Julia's life, and charts her travels throughout the Empire from Aswan to York during a period of profound upheaval, and seeks the truth about this woman who inspired such extreme and contrasting views, exposing the instability of our... -
Friendship and Empire: Roman Diplomacy and Imperialism in the Middle Republic (353-146 BC) by Paul J. Burton 9780521190008
RRP: £105.00£77.49In this bold new interpretation of the origins of ancient Rome's overseas empire, Dr Burton charts the impact of the psychology, language and gestures associated with the Roman concept of amicitia, or 'friendship'. The book challenges the prevailing... -
Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science by Daryn Lehoux 9780199605408
£98.42Lucretius' didactic masterpiece De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is one of the most brilliant and powerful poems in the Latin language, a passionate attempt at dispelling humanity's fear of death and its enslavement by false beliefs about the... -
The Land of Ionia: Society and Economy in the Archaic Period by Alan M. Greaves 9781119025566
RRP: £24.95£21.78Incorporating over a century of archaeological research, Greaves offers a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that attempts to understand the region within its larger Mediterranean context and provides a thematic overview of its cities and people. Seeks to... -
Hellenistic Epigram: Contexts of Exploration by Francis Cairns
RRP: £41.99£30.73This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram, a field closely related to other Hellenistic poetry and highly influential upon Roman poetry. In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the... -
Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod by Charles Penglase
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Mesopotamian influence on Greek mythology in literary works of the epic period is considerable - yet it is a largely unexplored field. In this book Charles Penglase investigates major Mesopotamian and Greek myths. His examination concentrates on... -
Rome, Polybius, and the East by The late Peter Derow 9780199640904
£98.42Rome, Polybius, and the East offers a collection of seventeen of the more important papers written by the late Peter Derow, Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford, during the course of his career. With a detailed... -
The Roman Guide to Slave Management: A Treatise by Nobleman Marcus Sidonius Falx by Jerry Toner 9781468311723
RRP: £16.95£9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468311723Author Jerry TonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 127mm *... -
Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation by Ruby Blondell 9780190263539
RRP: £27.99£27.09Ancient Greek culture is pervaded by a profound ambivalence regarding female beauty. It is an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction; yet it also grants women terrifying... -
Livy: Reconstructing Early Rome by Gary B. Miles
RRP: £31.00£27.36Some critics of the Roman historian Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) have dismissed his work as a compendium of stale narratives and conventional attitudes. Gary B. Miles reveals in Livy's history a creative interplay between traditional stories, contemporary... -
Feeling and Classical Philology: Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770-1920 by Constanze Guthenke 9781107104235
RRP: £90.00£81.03Nineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern humanities. In this book, Constanze Guthenke shows how a language of love and a longing for closeness with a personified antiquity have lastingly shaped modern... -
Egypt of the Saite Pharaohs, 664-525 Bc by Roger Forshaw 9781526140142
RRP: £85.00£74.51In the 660s BC Egypt was a politically fragmented and occupied country. However, this was to change when a family of local rulers from the city of Sais declared independence from the Assyrian Empire, and in a few short years succeeded in bringing about... -
Back to School in Babylonia by Susanne Paulus 9781614910985
RRP: £32.50£32.41This volume—the companion book to the special exhibition Back to School in Babylonia of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago—explores education in the Old Babylonian period through the lens of House F in Nippur,... -
Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception by Jeffrey M. Hunt
RRP: £23.99£21.24Winner, PROSE Award, Classics, Association of American Publishers (AAP), 2018Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of... -
Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity by William V. Harris 9780674013865
RRP: £53.95£43.27The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the Iliad to the church fathers of the fourth century A.D., the control or elimination of rage was an obsessive... -
Alexandria: A Cultural & Religious Melting Pot by George Hinge 9788779344914
£32.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779344914Author George HingeFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Pompeian Households: An Analysis of the Material Culture by Penelope M. Allison
RRP: £39.50£37.56Studies of Pompeian material culture have traditionally been dominated by art historical approaches, but recently there has been a renewed and burgeoning interest in Pompeian houses for studies of Roman domestic behaviour. This book is concerned with... -
Ancient Jewish and Christian Perceptions of Crucifixion by Dr David Chapman 9783161495793
£32.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161495793Author David W. ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 514g -
The Army of Alexander the Great by Stephen English
RRP: £12.99£10.95Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history, and many believe he was the greatest military genius of all time (Julius Caesar wept at the feet of his statue in envy of his achievements). Most of his thirteen year reign as king of Macedon... -
Homer: Odyssey Books XVII-XVIII by Homer 9780521677110
RRP: £28.99£25.82Books XVII and XVIII of the Odyssey feature, among other episodes, the disguised Odysseus' penetration of his home after an absence of twenty years and his first encounter with his wife. The commentary provides linguistic and syntactical guidance... -
The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra by Andrew Erskine 9781910589625
RRP: £95.00£90.96Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander. They were places of refinement, learning and luxury, and also of corruption, rivalry and murder. Surrounded by... -
The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster by Carlin A. Barton 9780691010915
RRP: £45.00£35.32This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. Carlin Barton makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society... -
Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9780954384531
RRP: £75.00£72.20Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this major study. The Greeks, rightly credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a more eastern tradition of seclusion. From the iconography as well... -
Augustine: Confessions Books I-IV by Augustine 9780521497633
RRP: £27.99£24.27Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century AD, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and... -
Akhenaten and Tutankhamun: Revolution and Restoration by David P. Silverman 9781931707909
RRP: £21.00£20.10Egypt's eighteenth dynasty, a period of empire building, was also for a short time the focus of a religious revolution. Now called the Amarna Period (1353-1322 BCE), after the site of an innovative capital city that was the center of the new religion, it... -
Food in Ancient Judah: Domestic Cooking in the Time of the Hebrew Bible by Cynthia Shafer-Elliott 9780367872229
RRP: £41.99£36.75The study of food in the Hebrew Bible and Syro-Palestinian archaeology has tended to focus on kosher dietary laws, the sacrificial system, and feasting in elite contexts. More everyday ritual and practice - the preparation of food in the home - has been... -
Procopius of Caesarea: The Persian Wars: Translation, with Introduction and Notes by Geoffrey Greatrex
£75.12Procopius was the major historian of the reign of Justinian and one of the most important historians of Late Antiquity. This is the first stand-alone English translation of his work Persian Wars. It offers a new translation, which has at its basis one... -
The Cavalry of Classical Greece: A Social and Military History with Particular Reference to Athens by I.G. Spence 9780198150282
£48.77This book is the first to examine how classical Greek cavalry actually operated on the battlefield. It looks at the prime characteristics of Greek cavalry, including mobility, protection, armament, training, leadership, flexibility, and motivation. Up to... -
Power and Public Finance at Rome, 264-49 BCE by James Tan 9780190639570
RRP: £107.50£88.78Rome's wars delivered great wealth to the conquerors, but how did this affect politics and society on the home front? In Power and Public Finance at Rome, James Tan offers the first examination of the Roman Republic from the perspective of fiscal... -
Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity by Jonathan J. Price
£90.28The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn...