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The Treasures of Tutankhamun by Garry J Shaw
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500052181Author Garry J ShawFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson LtdWeight(grams) 121g -
The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age by Anthony Harding
£41.09The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage... -
Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
RRP: £25.00£16.78It is time for a new book about bog bodies: the number of known bodies is growing. Lindow Man, the famous 'Pete Marsh' discovered in Cheshire in the 1980s, has been joined by new finds from Ireland and elsewhere. Who were these unfortunate people, and... -
Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity by Peter Schafer
RRP: £30.00£23.29A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic. Two Gods in Heaven reveals the long and little-known history of a second, junior god in Judaism,... -
How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet by William Fitzgerald
£19.64Latin is very much alive in the poetry written by the great Latin poets, and this book is about their poetry, their language, and their culture. Fitzgerald shows the reader with little or no knowledge of the Latin language how it works as a unique... -
The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids by Bill Manley
RRP: £25.00£15.47A brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The Teaching of Ptahhatp, composed two millennia before the birth of Plato, is the oldest surviving statement of... -
The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813) by Harry Turtledove
RRP: £23.99£20.84The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed "the dark ages of Byzantium" is the chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d. 817 or 818). In it Theophanes paints a vivid picture of the Empire's struggle in the seventh and... -
Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History by Carolyn A. Osiek
RRP: £28.00£24.54In a time when the ordination of women is an ongoing and passionate debate, the study of women's ministry in the early church is a timely and significant one. There is much evidence from documents, doctrine, and artifacts that supports the acceptance of... -
Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution by Victor Verney
RRP: £14.99£10.95Born in 1360, Jan Zizka was a formidable figure whose life and military career was set amidst the whirlwind of monumental revolutions - military, religious, political and social - that engulfed medieval Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The leader... -
The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids Pierre Tallet 9780500052112
RRP: £30.00£20.40The inside story, told by the archaeological detectives themselves, of the extraordinary discovery of the world's oldest papyri - revealing how King Khufu's men built the Great Pyramid at Giza. Pierre Tallet's discovery of the Red Sea Scrolls - the... -
The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art by Michel Lorblanchet
RRP: £19.95£13.00Where do we find the world's very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colours? Were our once-cousins, the Neanderthals, also capable of creating art? Prehistorians have been asking these questions... -
Emperors of Rome David Potter 9781780877501
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the... -
Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G. E. M. De Ste.Croix 9780715617014
RRP: £37.99£36.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715617014Author G. E. M. De Ste.CroixFormat PaperbackPage Count 746Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)... -
Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar by Sallust
RRP: £24.95£23.39Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign... -
Library of History: v. 10 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
Troy: myth and reality by Alexandra Villing
RRP: £25.00£17.98Troy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid. These have been retold over the centuries by writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Madeline Miller and Rick Riordan, and enacted by stars such as Elizabeth... -
Greek History: The Basics by Robin Osborne
RRP: £18.99£16.87Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age to rule by Rome.With a chapter on each crucial period of Greece's ancient history, the book covers the key topics, approaches... -
Roman Quests: Death in the Arena: Book 3 Caroline Lawrence 9781510100305
RRP: £6.99£5.00Third in a new historical adventure series from million copy selling Caroline Lawrence, set in Roman Britain during the reign of the evil Emperor Domitian.Eleven-year-old Ursula is happily learning to be a Druid in the woods of Britannia. But then she is... -
Mesopotamian Myths: A Captivating Guide to Myths from Mesopotamia and Sumerian Mythology by Matt Clayton 9781952191176
RRP: £29.99£18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952191176Author Matt ClaytonFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Refora PublicationsPublisher Refora PublicationsWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War by Charles W. Fornara 9780521299466
RRP: £29.99£26.67The first volume is devoted to the period which begins with the era of Greek colonization and ends with the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B. C. Charles Fornara has gathered together material compiled from inscriptions, ancient encyclopedias,... -
Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics Mathura Umachandran 9781032120119
RRP: £36.99£32.53This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white... -
The Annals by Cornelius Tacitus 9780872205581
RRP: £20.99£17.61A.J. Woodman's translation combines accuracy and Tacitean invention, masterfully conveying Tacitus' distinctive and powerful manner of expression, and reflecting the best of current scholarship. An introductory essay discusses Tacitus' career, the period... -
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler 9780684827902
RRP: £22.00£15.05Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen,... -
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization: Exploding the Myths by Anthony T Browder 9780924944031
RRP: £25.00£19.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924944031Author Anthony T BrowderFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Institute of Karmic GuidancePublisher Institute of Karmic GuidanceWeight(grams)... -
The Return: The gripping breakout historical thriller Harry Sidebottom 9781785769634
RRP: £14.99£10.95The sensational breakout historical thriller from Sunday Times bestseller and Ancient Rome expert Harry Sidebottom.______________________He came home a hero.But death isn't finished with him yet . . .145BC - CALABRIA, ANCIENT ROME. After years of... -
The Basic Works of Aristotle by Richard McKeon
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757990Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 1520Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 850gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Imperial Tragedy: From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363-568 by Professor Michael Kulikowski
RRP: £12.99£9.09For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the... -
Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War by Kathryn Welch 9781910589007
RRP: £75.00£72.20Appian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series of ethnographic histories, the growth of Roman power throughout Italy and the Mediterranean World. But... -
PUGNARE: ECONOMIC SUCCESS AND FAILURE by GEORGE MAHER 9781999626211
RRP: £12.99£11.05We imagine the Roman Empire as being a world very distant from ours, in particular its business and banking systems. So distant, that we may think we have nothing to learn from them. That however would be a mistake. The root causes of the economic... -
Rome and Its Empire, AD 193-284 by Olivier Hekster
RRP: £29.99£27.79This was a time of civil war, anarchy, intrigue, and assassination. Between 193 and 284 the Roman Empire knew more than twenty-five emperors, and an equal number of usurpers. All of them had some measure of success, several of them often ruling different... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780140433944
RRP: £22.00£16.02Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean by Eric H. Cline
RRP: £57.00£52.61The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BC, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion of trade in the Aegean and wider Mediterranean Sea, the development of artistic techniques in a variety of media,... -
Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds by James Clackson
RRP: £22.99£19.56Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the... -
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken
RRP: £19.99£17.37An authoritative and poignant account of the first millennium of Christian history How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and... -
Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, Volume II: Books 21–44 Justin 9780674997615
RRP: £24.95£23.39A condensed Roman history of non-Roman civilizations.To Justin (Marcus Junian(i)us Justinus), otherwise unknown, is attributed our abbreviated version of the lost Philippic History by (Gnaeus?) Pompeius Trogus, a massive account, in forty-four books, of... -
Style and Necessity in Thucydides by Tobias Joho 9780198812043
RRP: £117.50£106.11Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style," a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses these phrases instead of approximately... -
The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic by Jean-Manuel Roubineau 9780197666357
RRP: £14.99£13.09An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece. The ancient philosopher Diogenes--nicknamed "The Dog" and decried by Plato as a "Socrates gone mad"--was widely praised and idealized as much as he... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780140433951
RRP: £22.00£16.62Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, irony and incisive character analysis. Sceptical about Christianity, sympathetic to the barbarian invaders and... -
The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery by Bob Brier
RRP: £10.99£10.95Eight years ago, Jean-Pierre Houdin, a successful French architect, became obsessed by the age-old mystery of how the Great Pyramid was built. He renounced his architectural practice, sold his Paris apartment, and for ten hours a day labored at his... -
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Upper Germanic Limes: Grenzen des Römischen Reiches: Der Obergermanische Limes / Frontières de l´Empire Romain: Le limes de Germanie supérieure by David J. Breeze
£21.04Towards the end of Caesar's Gallic War, Rome had reached the Rhine. Since the campaigns under Emperor Augustus (15 B.C.), larger troop contingents were stationed along the river, with focal points around Mogontiacum/Mainz and in northern Switzerland...