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Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More by Phillip Barlag 9781633886902
RRP: £14.99£11.53Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it's sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known for is the one thing he actually didn't do. But fear not, the truth of his life, his rule and what he did... -
Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State by Richard Seaford 9780198150367
RRP: £69.00£65.93This is an exciting and entirely new synthesis, combining anthropology, political and social history, and the close reading of central Greek texts, to account for two the most significant hallmarks in Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy: the representation... -
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... -
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... -
Selected Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £12.99£9.09'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!' Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by a... -
Philip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington
RRP: £16.99£14.61Alexander the Great is remembered as a brilliant conqueror, but his father's achievements as a leader were greater still Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and... -
Labyrinth: Knossos Myth and Reality by Andrew Shapland
RRP: £25.00£16.47Crete was famous in Greek myth as the location of the labyrinth in which the Minotaur was confined in a palace at somewhere called 'Knossos'. From the Middle Ages travellers searched unsuccessfully for the Labyrinth. A handful of clues that survived,... -
Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth by Walter Burkert
RRP: £31.00£24.03Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in... -
Roman Civilization: Selected Readings: The Republic and the Augustan Age, Volume 1 by Naphtali Lewis 9780231071314
RRP: £50.00£39.52Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold's Roman Civilization is a classic. Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1955, the authors have undertaken another revision which takes into account recent work in the field. These volumes consist of... -
Viking Dublin: The Wood Quay Excavations by Patrick Wallace 9780716533146
£58.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780716533146Author Patrick WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times by Donald Hill
RRP: £37.99£33.38It is impossible to understand the cultures and achievements of the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Arabs, without knowing something of their technology. Rome, for example, made advances in many areas which were subsequently lost and not regained for... -
Histories: Bk. VIII-IX 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... -
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... -
Roman Britain: Life at the Edge of Empire Richard Hobbs 9780714150611
RRP: £12.99£8.60For nearly four centuries Britain was a province on the outer edge of the Roman Empire and developed a distinctively Romano-British culture and way of life. Using the archaeological evidence, ancient written sources and the latest research on surviving... -
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by Martin Goodman
RRP: £18.99£13.61In Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, Martin Goodman explores the history of a titanic struggle whose repercussions are still felt today. In 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of... -
Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt Stephen Quirke (University College London, UK) 9781444332001
RRP: £27.95£24.25Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt offers a stimulating overview of the study of ancient Egyptian religion by examining research drawn from beyond the customary boundaries of Egyptology and shedding new light on entrenched assumptions. Discusses the... -
The Giza Death Star Revisited: An Updated Revision of the Weapon Hypothesis of the Great Pyramid by Joseph P. Farrell 9781948803571
RRP: £22.00£13.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803571Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g -
Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World by Kimberly B. Stratton 9780195342710
RRP: £59.00£40.98Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture. The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching... -
The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220 by Denis Twitchett 9780521243278
RRP: £133.00£115.02This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major... -
Britain and Rome: Caesar to Claudius: The Exposure of a Renaissance Fraud by O'Gorman, P J 9781526769510
RRP: £20.00£14.29This is a bold reassessment of one of the pivotal points in British history. PJ O'Gorman analyses the sources for the period from Julius Caesar's first forays into these islands to the invasion under the Emperor Claudius and the conclusions he reaches... -
The Roman Empire: A Beginner's Guide by Philip Matyszak 9781780744247
RRP: £9.99£7.11No other political entity has shaped the modern world like the Roman Empire. Encompassing close to a quarter of the world's population and 3 million km2 of land, it represented a diverse and dynamic collection of nations, states and tribes, all bound to... -
The Roman Shore Forts: Coastal Defences of Southern Britain by Andrew Pearson
RRP: £25.00£18.54The eleven forts constructed by the Romans along the British coast between Branchester in Norfolk and Portchester in Hampshire have traditionally been referred to as the 'Forts of the Saxon Shore'. However, recent research suggests that these sites may... -
Celts: The History and Legacy of One of the Oldest Cultures in Europe by Martin J Dougherty 9781838862817
RRP: £29.99£16.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838862817Author Martin J DoughertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Amber BooksPublisher Amber BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 191mm *... -
Silchester Revealed: The Iron Age and Roman Town of Calleva by Michael Fulford
RRP: £16.99£16.12With its apparently complete town plan, revealed by the Society of Antiquaries of London's great excavation project, 1890-1909, Silchester is one of the best known towns in Roman Britain and the Roman world more widely. Since the 1970s excavations by... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: £16.99£12.44The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of... -
Hadrian's Empire by Danny Danziger
RRP: £12.99£8.60Hadrian's Wall is one of the world's best known legacies of the Roman Empire. It has stood for two thousand years as a moment to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Now bestselling author Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell... -
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 -
Cartimandua: Queen of the Brigantes by Nicki Howarth
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is the first major study of Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes tribe in Northern Britain in the first century AD. Little is known about the tribal ruler, who fought off rebellion and civil war and managed to keep her lands when many other British... -
The Final Pagan Generation: Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity by Edward J. Watts
RRP: £25.00£19.59A compelling history of radical transformation in the fourth-century--when Christianity decimated the practices of traditional pagan religion in the Roman Empire.The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the... -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf 9780199664733
RRP: £31.49£22.34The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations... -
A History of the Hellenistic World: 323 - 30 BC R. Malcolm Errington (University of Marburg) 9780631233886
RRP: £33.95£29.98A History of the Hellenistic World provides an engaging look at the Macedonian monarchies in the period following the reign of Alexander the Great, and examines their impact on the Greek world. Offers a clearly organized narrative with particular... -
The Athenian Empire by Robin Osborne 9781009383646
RRP: £15.99£14.28This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Athenian Empire in new English translations, with accompanying maps, tables and figures, a glossary and short contextualising introductory... -
Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World by Paul M. Blowers 9780199673957
£45.80This study contextualizes the achievement of a strategically crucial figure in Byzantium's turbulent seventh century, the monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor (580-662). Building on newer biographical research and a growing international body of... -
The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids by Bill Manley
RRP: £25.00£16.38A 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... -
Tacitus, Annals IV: A Selection Dr Robert Cromarty (Wellington College, UK) 9781350060302
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Tacitus' Annals IV, sections 1-4 (... non adversus habebatur), 7-12, and 39-41, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections 52-54, 57-60,... -
Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity: Appropriation and the Ancient World Richard Evans 9781032177601
RRP: £39.99£35.06Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity explores appropriation in its broadest terns in the ancient world, from brigands, mercenaries and state-sponsored "piracy", to literary appropriation and the modern plundering of antiquities.The chronological... -
Mountains and Lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia Paul Collins 9781910807088
RRP: £15.00£10.20Ancient Mesopotamia and Iran are usually treated separately or as part of a much broader 'Ancient Near East'. However, the developments that lie at the root of our own world - farming, cities, writing, organised religion, warfare - were forged in the... -
The Histories: No. 1 by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was... -
The Rise of Rome by Plutarch
RRP: £18.99£13.61The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch's Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy, and his Comparisons with their notable Greek counterparts. Here he pairs Romulus, mythical... -
Suetonius: Vol 1 by Suetonius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He...