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Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE by Jelle Bruning
RRP: £90.00£81.43During the period 500-1000 CE Egypt was successively part of the Byzantine, Persian and Islamic empires. All kinds of events, developments and processes occurred that would greatly affect its history and that of the eastern Mediterranean in general. This... -
Children and Childhood in Roman Italy by Beryl Rawson 9780199285174
£52.68Concepts of childhood and the treatment of children are often used as a barometer of society's humanity, values, and priorities. Children and Childhood in Roman Italy argues that in Roman society children were, in principle and often in practice,... -
Literacy and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens by Anna Missiou 9780521111409
RRP: £57.00£51.13Who wrote the administrative documents of Athens? Was literacy extensive in ancient Attika? Were inscriptions, those on stone or pieces of pottery (ostraka), written, read and comprehended by common people? In this book Anna Missiou gives full... -
Ritual Landscape and Performance: Proceedings of the International Conference on Ritual Landscape and Performance, Yale University, September 23-24, 2016 by Christina Geisen
RRP: £42.00£40.39Ritual Landscape and Performance contains the Egyptological contributions from a conference held at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations of Yale University on September 23-24, 2016. The various articles discuss the use of ritual... -
Argos and the Argolid: From the End of the Bronze Age to the Roman Occupation by Richard A. Tomlinson 9781138019935
RRP: £49.99£43.50Argos and the Argolid, first published in 1972, presents a study of the history and achievements of the Argives, who have hitherto been largely neglected: partly because Classical Argos is overshadowed by the legends of an earlier millennium, and partly... -
The Ancient Mesopotamian City by Marc van de Mieroop 9780198152866
RRP: £75.00£61.45Urban history starts in Mesopotamia: the earliest known cities developed there as a result of long indigenous processes and, for millennia, the city determined every aspect of Mesopotamian civilization. Marc Van De Mieroop examines urban life in the... -
Kellis: A Roman-Period Village in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis by Colin A. Hope
RRP: £109.99£99.73Kellis was a village in the Dakhleh Oasis in the Egyptian Western Desert inhabited continuously from the first to the late fourth century AD. Previously unexcavated, it has in recent decades yielded a wealth of data unsurpassed by most sites of the... -
The Politics of Roman Memory: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian by Marion Kruse
RRP: £62.00£53.56What did it mean to be Roman after the fall of the western Roman empire in 476, and what were the implications of new formulations of Roman identity for the inhabitants of both east and west? How could an empire be Roman when it was, in fact, at war with... -
Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul: Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition by Ralph Mathisen 9780292729834
RRP: £22.99£20.01Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W... -
The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity by Paul Zanker 9780520301955
RRP: £42.00£33.04This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Drawing on a variety of source materials, including Greco-Roman... -
War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens by Peter Hunt
RRP: £30.99£22.85Every Athenian alliance, every declaration of war, and every peace treaty was instituted by a decision of the assembly, where citizens voted after listening to speeches that presented varied and often opposing arguments about the best course of action... -
What Makes a Church Sacred?: Legal and Ritual Perspectives from Late Antiquity by Mary K. Farag
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What is the purpose of a church? Who owns a church? Mary K. Farag persuasively demonstrates that three groups in late antiquity were concerned with these questions:... -
She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon by Cristina Mazzoni
RRP: £19.99£16.18Since antiquity, the she-wolf has served as the potent symbol of Rome. For more than two thousand years, the legendary animal that rescued Romulus and Remus has been the subject of historical and political accounts, literary treatments in poetry and... -
On Magic: An Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistle 52, Part 1 by Godefroid de Callataÿ 9780199638956
£67.65The Ikhwan al-Safa (Brethren of Purity), the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad, hold an eminent position in the history of science and philosophy in Islam due to the wide reception and assimilation of... -
Constructing Early Christian Families: Family as Social Reality and Metaphor by Halvor Moxnes
RRP: £37.99£33.38The family is a topical issue for studies of the Ancient world. Family, household and kinship have different connotations in antiquity from their modern ones. This volume expands that discussion to investigate the early Christian family structures within... -
Transient Apostle: Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire by Timothy Luckritz Marquis 9780300187144
£51.57In a significant reevaluation of Paul's place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle's correspondence. He casts Paul's rhetorical strategies against the background of Augustus's age, when Rome's... -
The First Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History and Ideology by Andrea M. Berlin
RRP: £43.99£38.44The First Jewish Revolt against Rome is arguably the most decisive event in the history of Judaism and Christianity. The destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE by the Roman General Titus forced a transformation in structure and form for both of... -
The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 by Caroline Winterer
£26.93Debates continue to rage over whether American university students should be required to master a common core of knowledge. In The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910, Caroline Winterer traces the... -
Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony by Claude Calame 9780691114583
RRP: £75.00£58.09Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day misconceptions on this front and the lax methodology that has allowed them to prevail. He argues... -
The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander by Phiroze Vasunia
RRP: £53.00£41.79The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite numerous firsthand contacts with Egypt, Greek writers... -
Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists by Michael Gagarin 9780292722224
RRP: £19.99£17.54Winner, Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, 2003Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly... -
Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
RRP: £90.00£68.63Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of images - slender Muse, instructing divinity, small... -
Life and Letters from the Roman Frontier by Alan K. Bowman 9780415920254
£47.50First published in 1998. Over three hundred letters and documents have recently been discovered at the fort of Vindolanda, written on wooden tablets which have amazingly survived nearly 2000 years. Painstakingly deciphered by Alan Bowman and J. David... -
Ancient Divination and Experience by Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy 9780198844549
RRP: £95.00£78.81This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This volume sets out to re-examine what... -
Civilization and the Ancient Egyptians by Katanga A Bongo 9781432722630
RRP: £19.95£18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432722630Author Katanga A BongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Roman Phrygia: Culture and Society by Peter Thonemann
RRP: £30.99£28.28The bleak steppe and rolling highlands of inner Anatolia were one of the most remote and underdeveloped parts of the Roman empire. Still today, for most historians of the Roman world, ancient Phrygia largely remains terra incognita. Yet thanks to a... -
Qusayr 'Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria by Garth Fowden
RRP: £71.00£55.45From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and... -
The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan by Pedro Carrasco 9780806141992
£34.35The most important political entity in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica was the Tenochca Empire, founded in 1428 when the three kingdoms of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan formed an alliance that controlled the Basin of Mexico and other extensive areas of... -
Virgil and the Augustan Reception by Richard F. Thomas 9780521028950
RRP: £39.99£33.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations by Maria Wyke 9780199228331
RRP: £88.00£55.96From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and... -
Judaism in the New Testament: Practices and Beliefs by Bruce Chilton 9780415118446
RRP: £19.99£17.69Judaism in the New Testament explains how the writings of the early church emerged from communities which defined themselves in Judaic terms even as they professed faith in Christ. These two extremely distinguished scholars introduce readers to the... -
Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume I: A History by John Matthews
RRP: £42.95£38.57A wide-ranging survey of the history of the Roman Empire-from its establishment to decline and beyond Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of the Roman empire. Uncommonly expansive in its... -
Lives of the Caesars by Anthony A. Barrett 9781405127554
RRP: £33.95£29.98Lives of the Caesars tells the stories of 12 of Rome's most fascinating and influential rulers, uncovering the unique features of their reigns which allowed them to earn their places in history. A comprehensive and engaging account of the lives of the... -
Life, Death and Rubbish Disposal in Roman Norton, North Yorkshire: Excavations at Brooklyn House 2015-16 by Janet Phillips
£63.19Life, Death and Rubbish Disposal in Roman Norton, North Yorkshire: Excavations at Brooklyn House 2015-16 reports on excavations in advance of the development of a site in Norton-on-Derwent, North Yorkshire close to the line of the main Roman road running... -
Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE by Allison Glazebrook 9780299235642
RRP: £26.95£25.95Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE challenges the often-romanticised view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture... -
Financing the Athenian Fleet: Public Taxation and Social Relations by Vincent Gabrielsen
£33.27To meet the enormous expenses of maintaining its powerful navy, democratic Athens gave wealthy citizens responsibility for financing and commanding the fleet. Known as trierarchs-literally, ship commanders-they bore the expenses of maintaining and... -
Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle, and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture by Caroline Dodds Pennock 9780230003309
RRP: £44.99£44.97The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a... -
Alexander's Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors by Joseph Roisman
RRP: £21.99£19.19This first focused analysis of veterans' experiences in ancient Greece offers a fresh, "bottom-up" perspective on important military and political aspects of early Hellenistic history. Runner-up, PROSE Award, Classics and Ancient History, 2013From... -
Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic by Emily Kneebone
RRP: £125.00£90.28Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos at... -
The Afterlives of Egyptian History: Reuse and Reformulation of Objects, Places, and Texts by Yekaterina Barbash 9781617979927
RRP: £49.99£40.70An examination of the myriad lifetimes lived by ancient Egyptian artifacts Egypt has a particular longue duree, a continuity of preservation in deep time, not seen in other parts of the world. Over the centuries, ancient buildings have been adopted for...