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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: $29.23$21.96Nero 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... -
Social Theory and Archaeology by Michael Shanks
RRP: $35.08$31.28Archaeological theory and method have recently become the subject of vigorous debate centred on the growing realization that archaeological theory is social theory and as such can be looked at by means of a wide variety of sociological frameworks, such... -
Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14: A Source-based Approach by Mark Everson Davies 9780415496940
RRP: $72.13$64.21Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14 examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. It is an indispensable introduction to this central period of Roman History for all students of Roman history, from... -
The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction by Eric H. Cline
RRP: $17.53$12.58Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently, it has given rise to countless scholarly articles and... -
Medieval Military Combat: Battle Tactics and Fighting Techniques of the Wars of the Roses by Tom Lewis 9781612008875
RRP: $48.75$30.89We don't know how medieval soldiers fought. Did they just walk forward in their armour, to smash each other with their maces and poleaxes, for hours on end, as depicted on film in programs such as Game of Thrones?They could not have done so. It is... -
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century by Christina Riggs
RRP: $25.33$16.69'Impeccably researched and beautifully written' David Wengrow'Utterly original' Paul StrathernWhen it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and... -
Tacitus: Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $54.58$49.63The first work of any great historian has always commanded attention, and Tacitus was ancient Rome's very greatest historian. His biography of his father-in-law, governor of Britain in the years AD 77-84, is a literary masterpiece: it combines... -
Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam by G. W. Bowersock
RRP: $58.40$45.22Over the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic after mosaic in the Near East--maps, historical images, mythical figures, and religious scenes that constitute an immense treasure of new testimony from antiquity. The stories these... -
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper
RRP: $74.10$58.19A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to... -
Latin Prose Composition by Andrew Leigh
RRP: $29.23$26.40This book helps students to write Latin using increasingly complex forms of expression. Part 1 gives guidance and practice exercises for the new sentences required at GCSE, while Parts 2 and 3 contain a series of chapters of grammatical introduction and... -
Selected Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $25.33$17.73'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... -
Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G. E. M. De Ste.Croix 9780715617014
RRP: $74.08$71.80Apologies 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)... -
The Rise of Rome by Plutarch
RRP: $37.03$26.54The 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... -
Roman Civilization: Selected Readings: The Republic and the Augustan Age, Volume 1 by Naphtali Lewis 9780231071314
RRP: $97.50$75.68Naphtali 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... -
Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature by L. D. Reynolds
RRP: $76.03$71.64One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to... -
Hannibal by Patrick N. Hunt 9781439102183
$23.28Hannibal is "an exciting biography of one of history's greatest commanders...a thrilling page-turner" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees, and... -
Labyrinth: Knossos Myth and Reality by Andrew Shapland
RRP: $48.75$33.89Crete 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,... -
Democracy: A Life by Paul Cartledge 9780198815136
RRP: $27.28$19.01Democracy 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... -
Britain and Rome: Caesar to Claudius: The Exposure of a Renaissance Fraud by O'Gorman, P J 9781526769510
RRP: $39.00$27.87This 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... -
Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: $37.03$29.97The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson "The author succeeds in bringing this distant age to life through telling detail... -
Rome and Parthia: Empires at War: Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40-20 BC by Gareth Sampson 9781526710130
RRP: $48.75$43.27In the mid-first century BC, despite its military victories elsewhere, the Roman Empire faced a rival power in the east; the Parthian Empire. The first war between two superpowers of the ancient world had resulted in the total defeat of Rome and the... -
Geography: v. 5 by Strabo
RRP: $48.65$44.69The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, ... -
The Roman Empire: A Beginner's Guide by Philip Matyszak 9781780744247
RRP: $19.48$13.86No 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... -
Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations by Raymond Cohen
RRP: $54.60$46.90Published in 1992, William L. Moran's definitive English translation, The Amarna Letters, raised as many questions as it answered. How did Pharaoh run his empire? Why did the god-king consent to deal with his fellow, mortal monarchs as equals? Indeed,... -
Egypt. People, Gods, Pharaohs by Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen
$63.24How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the soldiers, the laborers, and the families that made up the vast majority of this much mythologized civilization? With a... -
On Ancient Warfare by Professor Richard A. Gabriel 9781526718457
$53.92Richard Gabriel has been studying and writing about ancient warfare for nearly half a century. He has written fifty-five books on the subject (before this one) and over three hundred published articles. These decades of scholarship are complemented by... -
Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature by Emily Pillinger
$49.63This book explores the miscommunications of the prophet Cassandra - cursed to prophesy the truth but never to be understood until too late - in Greek and Latin poetry. Using insights from the field of translation studies, the book focuses on the dialogic... -
The Giza Death Star Revisited: An Updated Revision of the Weapon Hypothesis of the Great Pyramid by Joseph P. Farrell 9781948803571
RRP: $42.90$27.87Apologies 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 -
Origins of the Sphinx: Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization by Robert M. Schoch 9781620555255
RRP: $37.03$24.71In this provocative collaboration from two Egyptology outsiders, Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., and Robert Bauval combine their decades of research to show how the Sphinx is thousands of years older than the conventional Egyptological timeline and was built by... -
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World by Ann Williams
RRP: $58.50$37.65Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the fabulous "Lost City of the Monkey God" tells incredible stories of how explorers and archaeologists have uncovered the clues that... -
Sunken cities: Egypt's lost worlds by Franck Goddio 9780500292372
RRP: $48.75$35.06Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, at the edge of the Nile Delta, lie the submerged remains of the ancient Egyptian cities Canopus and Thonis-Heracleion, which sank over 1,000 years ago but were dramatically rediscovered in the 20th century and brought to... -
Celts: The History and Legacy of One of the Oldest Cultures in Europe by Martin J Dougherty 9781838862817
RRP: $58.48$34.01Apologies 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: $33.13$28.28With 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... -
Llyn Cerrig Bach: A Study of the Copper Alloy Artefacts from the Insular La Taene Assemblage by Philip Macdonald 9780708320419
RRP: $19.48$17.88The Llyn Cerrig Bach assemblage is one of the most important collections of La Tene metalwork discovered in the British Isles. Presenting a typological study of this collection of Iron Age metalwork, this volume includes discussions of metalwork and... -
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History by Peter Heather
RRP: $33.13$23.75In AD 378 the Roman Empire had been the unrivalled superpower of Europe for well over four hundred years. And yet, August that year saw a small group of German-speaking asylum-seekers rout a vast Imperial army at Hadrianople, killing the Emperor and... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$44.69The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his... -
The Lost Book of King Og: The Only Written Words of the Rephaim by Demmon
RRP: $39.00$31.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542890656Author DemmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anthony Birley
RRP: $25.33$17.73One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic... -
The Anger of Achilles: The Iliad by Homer
RRP: $25.33$17.73War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after a row with his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan king Hector kills Achilles' beloved... -
Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity: Appropriation and the Ancient World by Richard Evans 9781032177601
RRP: $77.98$68.37Piracy, 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...