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Para Bellum by Simon Turney
RRP: £20.00£17.62A powerful new novel set in the fourth-century Roman Empire by critically acclaimed historical novelist Simon Turney, Para Bellum will delight fans of Scarrow, Kane and Cornwell. AD 381. Five years have gone by since a Roman governor ordered the... -
Caesar Rules: The Emperor in the Changing Roman World (c. 50 BC - AD 565) by Olivier Hekster
RRP: £30.00£26.35For centuries, Roman emperors ruled a vast empire. Yet, at least officially, the emperor did not exist. No one knew exactly what titles he possessed, how he could be portrayed, what exactly he had to do, or how the succession was organised. Everyone... -
Seneca's Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca 9780486811246
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486811246Author Lucius SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced by Stephanie Dalley
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognized in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the... -
Tutankhamun T. G. Henry James 9788854418684
RRP: £35.00£22.43On November 04th, 1922, after months of unsuccessful expeditions and excavations, a young Howard Carter was close to give up his Egyptian experience in the Valley of the Kings when, unexpectedly, he and his team discovered one of the most important... -
Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from its Foundation by R. M. Ogilvie
RRP: £12.99£9.09Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 bc. In this... -
Roman Legionary 109-58 BC: The Age of Marius, Sulla and Pompey the Great by Ross Cowan
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Roman centurion, holding the legionaries steady before the barbarian horde and then leading them forward to victory, was the heroic exemplar of the Roman world. This was thanks to the Marian reforms, which saw the centurion, although inferior in... -
The Romans: Gods, Emperors and Dormice by Marcia Williams 9781406354553
RRP: £8.99£6.55With her signature comic-strip style, Marcia WIlliams takes us behind the scenes at some of ancient Rome's most famous moments.Meet Dormeo: gladiator, dormouse, berry-nibbler, and guide to ancient Rome. He'll take you on a tour of Rome's most famous... -
Book of Songs (Shi-Jing): A New Translation of Selected Poems from the Ancient Chinese Anthology by Confucius
RRP: £19.99£14.05Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Collecting poems over a number of centuries, the anthology - sometimes known as the Classic of Poetry (or Shi-jing) -... -
The Hero by Lee Child 9780008361877
RRP: £5.99£4.18THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin... -
Vindolanda: Everyday Life on Rome's Northern Frontier Robin Birley 9781848682108
RRP: £19.99£13.73The beautiful site the Romans called Vindolanda lies in south-west Northumberland, in the district of Tynedale, more or less half way between the North Sea east of Newcastle and the Irish Sea to the west of Carlisle. It is just within the boundary of the... -
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... -
The Life of Cicero: Lessons for Today from the Greatest Orator of the Roman Republic by Philip Kay-Bujak 9781399097413
RRP: £25.00£17.62Cicero was Rome's greatest orator and one of the key statesmen of the late Roman Republic. He championed traditional Republican values against populist demagogues like Julius Caesar during a tumultuous period of civil war and unrest. During his term as... -
Becoming Neolithic: The Pivotal Transformation in Human History in Southwest Asia by Trevor Watkins 9780415221528
£32.53Becoming Neolithic examines the revolutionary transformation of human life that was taking place around 12,000 years ago in parts of southwest Asia. Hunter-gatherer communities were building the first permanent settlements, creating public monuments and... -
The Ptolemies, Rise of a Dynasty: Ptolemaic Egypt 330 246 BC by Grainger, John D 9781399090223
RRP: £25.00£19.64In this first volume of his trilogy on the Ptolemies, John Grainger explains how Ptolemy I established the dynasty's power in Egypt in the wake of Alexander the Great's death. Egypt had been independent for most of the fourth century BC, but was... -
Prehistoric Dorset by Gale John 9780752429069
RRP: £20.00£15.04Dorset is one of the country's richest counties in archaeological remains and over the last 30 years there have been a great number of new discoveries. This detailed, up-to-date and well-illustrated study of prehistoric monuments in and around Dorset... -
Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought by Pauline A. LeVen
RRP: £30.99£22.85Where does music come from? What kind of agency does a song have? What is at the root of musical pleasure? Can music die? These are some of the questions the Greeks and the Romans asked about music, song, and the soundscape within which they lived, and... -
King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld. 40th Ed. Sandro Vannini 9783836584234
RRP: £25.00£16.47Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed... -
Jerusalem: History of a Global City by Juliana Froggatt 9780520299900
RRP: £30.00£22.28An expansive history of Jerusalem as a cultural crossroads, and a fresh look at the urban development of one of the world's most mythologized cities. Jerusalem is often seen as an eternal battlefield in the "clash of civilizations" and in endless,... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy by Sitta von Reden
RRP: £29.99£26.34This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy available in English. A team of specialists provides in non-technical language cutting edge accounts of a wide range of key themes in economic history, explaining how ancient Greek... -
Democracy: A Life by Paul Cartledge 9780198815136
RRP: £14.99£11.22Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today -- and has been been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient... -
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691211084
RRP: £16.99£12.41A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents... -
Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome by Arthur M. Eckstein 9780520259928
RRP: £30.00£23.69This ground-breaking study is the first to employ modern international relations theory to place Roman militarism and expansion of power within the broader Mediterranean context of interstate anarchy. Arthur M. Eckstein challenges claims that Rome was an... -
The Last Great War of Antiquity by James Howard-Johnston 9780198830191
RRP: £39.99£34.63The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe... -
Great Battles of the Early Roman Empire by Simon Elliott 9781399069830
RRP: £22.00£15.62Dr Simon Elliott describes eight of the greatest, most decisive of the Roman Empire of the first to third centuries. The list includes battles fought from the highlands of Scotland and the forests of Germany to the deserts of the Middle East. They show... -
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... -
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson 9780812969702
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969702Author Victor Davis HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm)... -
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 History of Rome by Michael Grant
RRP: £16.99£11.58From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an Empire that dominated the Western world. Powerful in war, Rome was magnificent in peace, so that even today her poets, artists, philosophers and historians... -
The Stoicism Book Of Quotes: Over 200 Inspirational Quotations from the Greatest Stoic Philosophers by Nick Benas 9781578269761
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578269761Author Nick BenasFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Publisher Hatherleigh Press,U.S. -
A Brief History of the Roman Empire by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: £12.99£5.47In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's Satires to recent archaeological finds. He... -
The Search For Nefertiti by Joann Fletcher
RRP: £16.99£11.54Joann Fletcher, presenter of BBC2's 'Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings' has written an enthralling account of Nefertiti, one of Egypt's most compelling and mysterious figures. She and her controversial pharaoh husband Akhenaten... -
Hathors Alchemy: The Ancient Egyptian Roots of the Hermetic Art by Alison M Roberts 9780952423331
RRP: £27.50£17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952423331Author Alison M RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Northgate PublishersPublisher Northgate PublishersWeight(grams) 976g -
The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar by Katharina Volk 9780691253954
RRP: £22.00£17.36An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary... -
Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer
RRP: £19.99£17.54Sumerian Mythology Revised Edition Samuel Noah Kramer "A real addition to the body of world mythology."--American Anthropologist "No people has contributed more to the culture of mankind than the Sumerians, and yet it has been only in recent years that... -
Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept by Brent Nongbri
RRP: £19.99£16.97For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part of the "natural" human experience that is essentially the same across cultures and throughout history. Individual religions may vary through time and... -
A New History of Early Christianity by Charles Freeman
RRP: £12.99£11.46This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a familiar story The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early... -
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... -
Socrates in Love by Armand D'Angour
RRP: £10.99£7.77An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought,... -
The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain by David Miles 9780500051863
RRP: £29.95£20.62Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge societal change - the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age' - through the most iconic artifact of its time: the polished stone axe, using his own ancient stone axe-head, given to him by a...