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Imperial Roman Warships 193-565 AD by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £11.99£9.08The period of relative peace enjoyed by the Roman Empire in its first two centuries ended with the Marcomannic Wars. The following centuries saw near-constant warfare, which brought new challenges for the Roman Navy. It was now not just patrolling the... -
Augustine: A Very Short Introduction by Henry Chadwick
RRP: £8.99£6.45By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but also the West since his time. This Very Short Introduction traces the development of Augustine's thought,... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2024–2026 by Sam Baddeley
RRP: £29.99£27.85This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2024-26 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for... -
Histories: Bk.I-II by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History by Keith W. Whitelam
RRP: £38.99£34.22The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam argues that ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state. He explores the... -
Hadrian's Wall: Creating Division by Matthew Symonds
RRP: £19.99£16.54Over its venerable history, Hadrian's Wall has had an undeniable influence in shaping the British landscape, both literally and figuratively. Once thought to be a soft border, recent research has implicated it in the collapse of a farming civilisation... -
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great by James Romm
RRP: £25.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079674Author James RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan
RRP: £25.00£18.18The creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.The Roman Republic was one of the most... -
Disbelief: 100 Russian Anti-War Poems by Julia Nemirovskaya 9781739772277
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739772277Author Julia NemirovskayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
The Age of Cats: From the Savannah to Your Sofa by Jonathan B. Losos
RRP: £22.00£14.98The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. 'Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Age of Cats is a readable and... -
Writings from Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a... -
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins by Paul Pettitt
RRP: £25.00£16.78An expert palaeoarchaeologist reveals how our understanding of the evolution of our species has been transformed by momentous discoveries and technological advancements. Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species... -
My Heart My Mother: Death and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt by Alison Roberts
RRP: £16.99£11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952423317Author Alison RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Northgate PublishersPublisher Northgate PublishersWeight(grams) 707g -
The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five by Livy
RRP: £10.99£7.77`the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called... -
Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magick, Medicine & Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft by Cyndi Brannen
RRP: £19.99£15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637225Author Cyndi BrannenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g -
Babylon: 'Truly epic' Conn Iggulden by Robert Fabbri 9781838956127
RRP: £9.99£6.52'This may be the greatest tale of the ancient world. Hugely enjoyable' CONN IGGULDEN'Excellent . . . scintillating' THE TIMESWho will conquer the greatest city in the ancient world?Alexander the Great's sudden death has left his vast empire in chaos. War... -
Prose Unseens for A-Level Latin: A Guide through Roman History Mathew Owen (Caterham School, UK) 9781474269162
RRP: £14.99£13.54This volume is designed to accompany the OCR A-Level specification in Latin (first teaching September 2016), with practice unseen passages from Livy, the set prose for Paper 1, together with passages from a selection of other writers to support Paper 2,... -
Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius by Adrastos Omissi
RRP: £32.99£29.98Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike ... -
Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £14.99£10.95Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales. The tales of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for... -
Bronze Age Greek Warrior 1600-1100 BC Raffaele D'Amato (Author) 9781849081955
RRP: £14.99£10.95More than a century has passed past since German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the treasures of Bronze Age Mycenae. The richly decorated artefacts of the entombed warriors, whose bodies still lay in their graves, confirmed that Homer's epic... -
The Inca: Lost Civilizations by Kevin Lane 9781789145465
RRP: £18.00£12.96From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca. In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle... -
The Spies of Sobeck (Amerotke Mysteries, Book 7): Murder and intrigue from Ancient Egypt by Paul Doherty
RRP: £9.99£6.80In Paul Doherty's new novel, Amerotke, Chief Judge of the Hall of Two Truths, is once again summoned to the Imperial Palaceo: Tekreth, Guardian of the Door of Sobeck, has fallen to his death from the roof of his stately mansion. According to all... -
Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1 by Peter Adamson
RRP: £22.99£16.68Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History... -
The Fight for Greek Sicily: Society, Politics, and Landscape by Melanie Jonasch 9781789253566
£54.80The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of the... -
The World of the Oxus Civilization by Bertille Lyonnet 9781032570037
RRP: £44.99£39.28This collection of essays presents a synthesis of current research on the Oxus Civilization, which rose and developed at the turn of the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC in Central Asia. First discovered in the 1970s, the Oxus Civilization, or the... -
Egyptian Mythology: A Traveller's Guide from Aswan to Alexandria by Garry J. Shaw
RRP: £16.99£11.94Join Egyptologist Garry J. Shaw on a tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of Horus, Isis, Osiris, and their enemies and allies, tales of vengeance, tragedy, and fantastic... -
Doggerland: Lost World under the North Sea by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz
£51.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464261134Author Luc W.S.W. AmkreutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Sidestone PressPublisher Sidestone Press -
Women in Greek Myth by Mary R. Lefkowitz 9780715635650
£27.40In the first edition of "Women in Greek Myth", published in 1986, Mary R. Lefkowitz convincingly challenged narrow, ideological interpretations of the roles of female characters in Greek mythology. Where some scholars saw the Amazons as the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe by Chris Fowler 9780198832492
£49.32The Neolithic --a period in which the first sedentary agrarian communities were established across much of Europe--has been a key topic of archaeological research for over a century. However, the variety of evidence across Europe, the range of languages... -
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Silvia Ferrara 9781529064780
RRP: £10.99£7.12'Ferrara's book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but it's also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many other tantalising mysteries besides.' - The SpectatorThis book tells the story of our greatest invention... -
A Test Of Time: Volume One-The Bible-From Myth to History by David Rohl
RRP: £16.99£12.28By employing the same basic methodologies used to establish the currently accepted chronology, it has been possible for a group of young archaeologists, including David Rohl, to create a New Chronology which resolves many of the problems permeating... -
A Thousand Miles up the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards 9780856982514
RRP: £29.50£24.79"This is the most important of my books, and the one by which I most hope to be remembered - if I may hope to be remembered at all!" Amelia B Edwards, 1877. A chance visit to Egypt in 1873 by Amelia Edwards changed the future of British Egyptology... -
Ancient Iraq by Georges Roux
RRP: £16.99£12.28First published in 1964, Ancient Iraq is the classic work on Mesopotamia and the great civilizations that sprung from the region bounded by the Euphrates and Tigris. It remains an invaluable primer for anyone fascinated by the extraordinary ruins and... -
Glory of Rome: (Gaius Valerius Verrens 8) by Douglas Jackson
RRP: £10.99£7.77A riveting and all-action historical page-turner from bestselling author Douglas Jackson that will have you gripped from page one! Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane.Readers are loving Gaius Valerius Verrens! "The best Roman historical series... -
The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy by Alison E. Cooley 9780521549547
RRP: £34.99£30.49This book advances our understanding of the place of Latin inscriptions in the Roman world. It enables readers, especially those new to the subject, to appreciate both the potential and the limitations of inscriptions as historical source material, by... -
The Poisoner of Ptah (Amerotke Mysteries, Book 6): A deadly killer stalks the pages of this gripping mystery Paul Doherty 9780755328871
RRP: £9.99£6.80At a peace treaty signing between Egypt and Libya in Thebes, three of Egypt's leading scribes die violently on the Temple forecourt, the victims of a vile poisoning. To add to the mounting unease, a prosperous merchant and his young wife are found... -
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: £14.99£9.80Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazineThe year 2022 marks 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This... -
The Final Frontier: Scotland's Early Roman Landscape by Andrew Tibbs 9781398117235
RRP: £15.99£10.85In this revealing book, Roman historian and archaeologist Andrew Tibbs uncovers the earliest Roman fortifications in Scotland and examines the landscape and context in which they were built. Although the most visible high-water marks of the Roman Empire... -
Aegean Art and Architecture by Donald Preziosi
RRP: £23.49£17.01The amazing discovery of the 'first European civilization' in Crete, Greece and the Aegean islands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was beyond what anyone had imagined. Beginning with the Neolithic period, before 3000 BCE, and... -
The Greek Philosophers: from Thales to Aristotle by W. K. C. Guthrie 9780415522281
RRP: £12.99£11.94With an new foreword by James WarrenLong renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie's The Greek Philosophers offers us a brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek...