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The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy by Sitta von Reden
RRP: €35.69€31.34This 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... -
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson 9780812969702
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies 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)... -
Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: €29.69€27.83Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at... -
The Last Great War of Antiquity by James Howard-Johnston 9780198830191
RRP: €47.59€41.21The 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... -
The Stoicism Book Of Quotes: Over 200 Inspirational Quotations from the Greatest Stoic Philosophers by Nick Benas 9781578269761
RRP: €15.46€10.23Apologies 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: €15.46€6.51In 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... -
Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer
RRP: €23.79€20.87Sumerian 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... -
Latin Prose Composition by Andrew Leigh
RRP: €17.84€16.11This 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... -
The History of Roman Legion VI Victrix: The Original Watchers on the Wall Tony Sullivan 9781399088572
RRP: €26.18€18.59This is the first in depth study on the history of Legio VI Victrix in Britain. Brought over from Germany in 122 to assist in the building of Hadrian's Wall the Sixth Legion remained in Britain until the end of Roman rule. The book will investigate the... -
The Romans in Scotland and The Battle of Mons Graupius by Simon Forder
RRP: €13.08€8.63In AD 77, Roman forces under Agricola marched into the northern reaches of Britain to pacify the Caledonian tribesmen. For seven years, the Romans campaigned across what is now Scotland. In AD 83, they fought the final battle at Mons Graupius, where... -
Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More by Phillip Barlag 9781633886902
RRP: €17.84€13.72Nero 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: €82.11€78.46This 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... -
Lemuria: A Civilization Time Forgot by Una Marcotte 9781982206413
RRP: €14.22€9.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982206413Author Una MarcotteFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm -
Democracy: A Life by Paul Cartledge 9780198815136
RRP: €17.84€13.35Democracy 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... -
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Richard Stoneman
RRP: €33.32€26.42An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new world. The plants were unrecognizable, the customs... -
Selected Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €15.46€10.82'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... -
Hannibal by Patrick N. Hunt 9781439102183
€13.82Hannibal 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: €29.75€19.60Crete 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,... -
Roman Civilization: Selected Readings: The Republic and the Augustan Age, Volume 1 by Naphtali Lewis 9780231071314
RRP: €59.50€47.03Naphtali 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... -
Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World by Kimberly B. Stratton 9780195342710
RRP: €70.21€48.77Daughters 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: €158.27€136.87This 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: €23.80€17.01This 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... -
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World Douglas Preston 9781426221989
RRP: €35.70€22.98Blending 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... -
The Roman Empire: A Beginner's Guide by Philip Matyszak 9781780744247
RRP: €11.89€8.46No 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 Rise of Rome by Plutarch
RRP: €22.60€16.20The 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... -
Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: New Approaches by Chantal Conneller
RRP: €23.79€17.87The general perception of the archaeology of the Mesolithic in Britain and Ireland is that the period is somewhat impoverished. Often assumed to have an exceptionally limited range of evidence, the period is also perceived as a theoretical backwater,... -
Celts: The History and Legacy of One of the Oldest Cultures in Europe by Martin J Dougherty 9781838862817
RRP: €35.69€19.88Apologies 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: €20.22€19.18With 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... -
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
€25.10The dramatic story of Rome's first emperor, who plunged into Rome's violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire Caesar Augustus' story, one of the most riveting... -
Greek Art by John Boardman
RRP: €15.41€10.69John Boardman has updated his classic account of one of the most popular historic artistic traditions among Western audiences. In the twenty years since the last edition was released, valuable evidence has come to light which has dramatically enhanced ... -
The Athenian Empire by Robin Osborne 9781009383646
RRP: €19.03€16.99This 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
€54.50This 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 Meroe Head of Augustus by Thorsten Opper
RRP: €7.14€5.33Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the 'Meroe Head' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar's great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14). Once forming part of a statue of Rome's revered first true emperor... -
Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity: Appropriation and the Ancient World Richard Evans 9781032177601
RRP: €47.59€41.72Piracy, 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: €17.85€12.14Ancient 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... -
Diocletian and the Roman Recovery by Stephen Williams
RRP: €54.73€47.75Stephen Williams's book is the first biography of Diocletian to appear in English. It combines the historical narrative of his remarkable reign and those of his fellow-emperors, with a chapter-by-chapter study of each of the great problems he faced, the... -
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307743749Author James RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm... -
The Indus: Lost Civilizations by Andrew Robinson
RRP: €15.41€10.79The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and... -
A Short Guide to Hadrian's Wall by Andrew Tibbs
RRP: €20.22€13.41Andrew Tibbs, the man behind the popular @RomanScotland account, brings together an overview of the history and archaeology of this famous monument, along with a guide to the key Roman sites to visit in and around Hadrian's Wall. The history of the wall... -
Roman Egypt: A History by Roger S. Bagnall 9781108949002
RRP: €32.12€27.18Egypt played a crucial role in the Roman Empire for seven centuries. It was wealthy and occupied a strategic position between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds, while its uniquely fertile lands helped to feed the imperial capitals at Rome and...