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Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth by John Darnell and Colleen Darnell
RRP: £25.00£18.94Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom... -
Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Shaw
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination -- mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured the imagination of generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt,... -
Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio's Roman History by Caillan Davenport 9781108926232
RRP: £26.99£24.08The Roman History of Cassius Dio provides one of the most important continuous narratives of the early Roman empire, spanning the inception of the Principate under Augustus to the turbulent years of the Severan Dynasty. It has been a major influence on... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £25.00£12.27A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 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... -
Lucretius and the Language of Nature by Barnaby Taylor 9780198754909
£84.29Lucretius' Epicurean poem De Rerum Natura ('On the Nature of Things'), written in the middle of the first century BC, made a fundamental and lasting contribution to the language of Latin philosophy. The style of De Rerum Natura is like nothing else in... -
Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the end of the Golden Age by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £12.99£8.56It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey back home - a journey of hundreds of miles, north from modern-day Iraq into the mountains of Kurdistan and... -
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg 9780674241411
RRP: £16.95£13.85A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its proponents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to... -
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler 9780197518786
RRP: £30.99£22.85These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? The Battle of the Classics... -
City of God by Saint Augustine
RRP: £18.99£12.58City of God is an enduringly significant work in the history of Christian thought, by one of its central figuresWritten as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, this great theological and... -
The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha by Sallust
RRP: £24.95£23.39Two military monographs.Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BC), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted against Cicero and Milo as tribune in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in... -
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3: From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy by John Romer 9780141993355
RRP: £18.99£13.61The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known stateArchaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the... -
Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars Peter Stothard 9781474620994
RRP: £22.00£16.02'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly'Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has... -
Ancient Scepticism Harald Thorsrud 9781844651313
RRP: £37.99£33.38Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgement in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since is beginnings in ancient Greece. Harald Thorsrud provides an... -
The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £10.99£7.77'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden... In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike' Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caustic in his opinion of the weak and cuckolded Claudius... -
Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: £12.99£11.46A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make-or destroy-the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the... -
A Geography of Offerings: Deposits of Valuables in the Landscapes of Ancient Europe by Richard Bradley 9781785704772
RRP: £15.99£14.85More than quarter of a century ago Richard Bradley published The Passage of Arms. It was conceived as An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits, but, as the author concedes, these terms were too narrowly focused for the complex... -
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx by Dr. Jerry Toner 9781781255766
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' The Times Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before... -
Ancient Athens: Five Intriguing Lives: Socrates, Pericles, Aspasia, Peisistratos & Alcibiades by Sanford Holst 9781945199011
RRP: £10.95£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945199011Author Sanford HolstFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Santorini PublishingPublisher Santorini PublishingWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)... -
And Man Created God: Kings, Cults and Conquests at the Time of Jesus by Selina O'Grady
RRP: £30.00£20.95And Man Created God is a sweeping exploration of the religions of the world at the time of Jesus: this is popular history at its best. At the time of Jesus's birth, the world was in ferment. Across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia -... -
Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer 9781773239712
RRP: £8.95£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773239712Author Samuel Noah KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC by Steven Mithen
RRP: £16.99£11.94A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading... -
Antony and Cleopatra Adrian Goldsworthy 9780753828632
RRP: £16.99£11.54The epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of Caesar.The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world and has been depicted in countless novels, plays... -
Boudicca's Rebellion AD 60-61: The Britons rise up against Rome by Nic Fields
RRP: £16.99£12.28When the Romans occupied the southern half of Britain in AD 43, the Iceni tribe quickly allied themselves with the invaders. Having paid tribute to Rome, they continued to be ruled by their own kings. But 17 years later when Prasutagus, the king of the... -
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by Max Hastings 9780008454265
RRP: £12.99£8.48‘A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle … Compelling’ Daily Mail ‘An unmissable read’ Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who... -
The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales: The Illiad the Odyssey and the Migration of Myth by Felice Vinci 9781594770524
RRP: £24.00£21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594770524Author Felice VinciFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
Neolithic Britain: The Transformation of Social Worlds by Keith Ray
£22.20The Neolithic in Britain was a period of fundamental change: human communities were transformed, collectively owning domesticated plants and animals, and inhabiting a richer world of material things: timber houses and halls, pottery vessels, polished... -
Pennine Dragon: The Real King Arthur of the North by Simon Keegan
RRP: £12.99£11.31Pennine Dragon tells the true story of the legendary King Arthur. On the 1500th anniversary of Arthur's greatest battle at Badon, his whole life, family history and exploits are finally identified with those of a real historic ruler. Arthur Pendragon was... -
The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme
RRP: £19.99£14.64The 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... -
The Romans: Gods, Emperors and Dormice by Marcia Williams
RRP: £6.99£5.00Hear all about Ancient Rome from Dormeo the dormouse - history like it's never been told before!Join Marcia Williams on a journey to Ancient Rome to meet the gods, find out who Romulus and Remus were and discover what happened to Julius Caesar... -
Nefertiti's Face: The Creation of an Icon Joyce Tyldesley 9781781250518
RRP: £9.99£7.11More than three thousand years ago a sculptor working in the royal city of Amarna carved a limestone bust of an Egyptian queen. The queen was Nefertiti, consort of the 'heretic pharaoh' Akhenaten. Plastered and painted, Nefertiti's bust depicted an... -
Classics: Why It Matters by Neville Morley 9781509517930
RRP: £14.99£10.34For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world. Knowledge of classical culture, it was believed, produced more cultivated, creative individuals; Greece and Rome were seen as pinnacles of civilization, and... -
Exploring Roman London by Simon Webb 9781399058490
RRP: £16.99£12.28Much more than a simple guidebook, Exploring Roman London is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the early history of England's capital city. In addition to containing information on every site in London where Roman remains can be seen, the... -
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan Jose Millas
RRP: £14.99£9.80A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all. Perhaps he is a... -
The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts by Marvin W. Meyer 9780812216929
RRP: £23.99£15.75Zeus and the other gods of shining Olympus were in reality divine only by popular consent. Over the course of time Olympian luster diminished in favor of religious experiences more immediate to the concerns of people living in an increasingly... -
Protagoras by Plato
RRP: £7.99£5.79'You are going to entrust your soul to the care of a sophist. But I should be surprised if you even know what a sophist is.' In the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled the Greek world claiming to teach success in public... -
Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World by Michael Scott 9780691169842
RRP: £16.99£13.52The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings came from all over the Mediterranean and beyond to... -
The Great Book of Ancient Egypt: In the Realm of the Pharaohs Zahi Hawass 9788854413450
RRP: £30.00£21.80In this superbly illustrated volume, distinguished Egyptologist Zahi Hawass guides you through the architectural landscape of ancient Egypt. From houses and palaces to the temples of the gods, to the tombs, hundreds of photographs and a compelling text... -
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott 9781800244825
RRP: £12.99£8.32Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were defeated by the future Roman emperor Augustus at the Battle of Actium. Paraded as a prisoner in a... -
Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Names * Greetings * Insults * Sayings Angela McDonald 9780714119762
RRP: £8.99£6.20A handy and colourful illustrated guide to reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases. The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great... -
The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate by John H. Walton 9780830824618
RRP: £17.99£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Christianity Today Book Award (Biblical Studies) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780830824618Author John H. WaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint...