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Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J. E. Lendon
RRP: £19.99£17.37A major new history of battle in the ancient world, from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age... -
Cleopatra: A Sourcebook by Prudence J Jones 9780806137414
RRP: £21.95£19.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806137414Author Prudence J JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 481g -
Handbook for Classical Research by David M. Schaps 9780415425230
RRP: £39.99£35.46One of the glories of the Greco-Roman classics is the opportunity that they give us to consider a great culture in its entirety; but our ability to do that depends on our ability to work comfortably with very varied fields of scholarship. The Handbook... -
The Indus: Lost Civilizations by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £12.95£9.07The 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... -
Roman Egypt: A History by Roger S. Bagnall 9781108949002
RRP: £26.99£22.84Egypt 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... -
The Battles of Antiochus the Great: The failure of combined arms at Magnesia that handed the world to Rome by Wrightson, Graham 9781526793461
RRP: £20.00£14.29Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. He fought and won many battles from India to Egypt, and he lost almost as many. Compared with most of the other Hellenistic monarchs of... -
Legionary: The Roman Soldier's (Unofficial) Manual by Philip Matyszak
£10.05Your Emperor needs you! The year is ad 100 and Rome stands supreme and unconquerable, from the desert sands of Mesopotamia to the misty highlands of Caledonia. But the might of Rome rests entirely on the shoulders of the legionaries, who stand... -
The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World by Simon Elliott
RRP: £20.00£15.04The world of the Roman Republic and Empire is still very much with us, alive and a key companion as we negotiate the trials and tribulations of modern life. We don't just walk in the footsteps of Romans great and small; we walk side by side with them.At... -
Roman Soldier vs Germanic Warrior by Lindsay Powell
RRP: £14.99£10.95The reigns of Augustus and his successor Tiberius saw an epic struggle between the Romans and local peoples for the territory between the Rhine and Elbe rivers in what is now Germany. Following two decades of Roman occupation, Germania Magna erupted into... -
Walking Among Pharaohs: George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology by Peter Der Manuelian
RRP: £31.49£28.78In this expansive new biography of George Reisner, Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian examines the life and work of America's greatest archaeologist. Manuelian presents Reisner's undeniable impact and considers his life within the context of Western... -
Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World by Stephanie Lynn Budin 9780367277437
RRP: £44.99£41.68This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives of women in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome by Paul Erdkamp 9780521720786
RRP: £34.99£28.40Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this... -
Rome: Strategy of Empire by James Lacey
RRP: £32.49£23.01The first work to lay out Roman strategic thinking from its start under Augustus until its final demise in 476 CE From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 B.C.) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years - an... -
Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 by Jane Roberts 9781781382660
RRP: £33.00£30.39The resurgence of interest in the history of the English language has prompted this indispensable introductory guide to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to gain a sense of changes in scripts across time is through visual... -
Greek Slavery by Deborah Kamen 9783110637595
RRP: £25.00£17.95Slavery is attested throughout ancient Greek history and all over the Greek world. Unsurprisingly, then, scholarship on Greek slavery has proliferated in the past twenty-five or so years, making a holistic synthesis of such work especially desirable... -
Cicero's Catilinarians by D. H. Berry
RRP: £23.49£19.16The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the conspirator Catiline and his followers. Or are they? Cicero did not publish the speeches until three years... -
Romans at War: The Roman Military in the Republic and Empire by Simon Elliott
RRP: £29.95£21.92In Romans at War ground-breaking research is presented in an accessible, entertaining, and sumptuously illustrated format, including:* A new consideration of the nature of late Roman military leaders; the author argues they were effectively independent... -
The Amarna Letters by William L. Moran
RRP: £33.00£29.92An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of... -
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy
RRP: £23.95£21.86What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The... -
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato 9780140455496
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and the life of Classical Athens. In these four dialogues,... -
Life in Ancient Rome by Nigel Rodgers 9781844777457
£14.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844777457Author Rodgers NigelFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hermes HousePublisher Anness Publishing -
The Last Assassin Peter Stothard 9781474613163
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A gripping history' Mary Beard'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel'Atmospheric and gripping, and [his] scholarship is impeccable' Greg WoolfMany men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers... -
The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture by Karen Radner
£41.89The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia... -
The Silver Eagle: (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 2) by Ben Kane
RRP: £9.99£7.75The Forgotten Legion fought against almighty odds at the very edge of the known world - and lost.Now Brennus the Gaul, Tarquinius the Etruscan soothsayer and Romulus, bastard son of a Roman nobleman, are prisoners of Parthia. They dream of escape, but in... -
The Green Man by Jeremy Harte
RRP: £6.99£5.13We see the Green Man half-hidden on the walls of many of our old churches, a face surrounded by leaves. This beautifully illustrated and well-researched Pitkin Guide looks at this fascinating creature, its history, and where to find him. Look out for... -
Catullus: A Selection of Poems Dr John Godwin (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350060227
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Catullus' poems 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 40, 70, 76, 85, 88, 89, 91 and 107, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of poems 1, 34, 62 and 64 lines... -
Cicero: Philippics I-II by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £27.99£24.27This edition is the first since J. D. Denniston's of 1926 to present the Latin text of and a commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of the most polished orations in the Ciceronian corpus. These speeches, which were composed less than six... -
War And The Iliad by Simone Weil
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171455Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm)... -
Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World by Philip de Souza 9780521012409
RRP: £40.99£33.26This book is an innovative historical study of piracy in the Graeco-Roman world from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity. It explores the conditions which allowed piracy to flourish in the ancient Mediterranean, especially the close relationship between... -
The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: £24.95£23.39Epic history.Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 39-65), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a festival in Emperor Nero's honor Lucan praised him in a... -
Protagoras by Plato
RRP: £7.99£5.79'You are going to entrust your soul to the care of a sophist. But I should be surprised if you even know what a sophist is.' In the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled the Greek world claiming to teach success in public... -
In Search of the Greeks (Second Edition) James Renshaw (Godolphin and Latymer School, London, UK) 9781472530264
RRP: £27.99£25.44In Search of the Greeks offers an engaging introduction to the societies of Classical Greece. Making extensive use of ancient sources and illustrated with some hundred and fifty photographs, drawings, maps and plans, many now for the first time in... -
Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean by Carolina López-Ruiz 9780674295575
RRP: £20.95£17.67“An important new book…offers a powerful call for historians of the ancient Mediterranean to consider their implicit biases in writing ancient history and it provides an example of how more inclusive histories may be written.”—Denise Demetriou, New... -
When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation by Paula Fredriksen
RRP: £14.99£13.03A compelling account of Christianity's Jewish beginnings, from one of the world's leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's... -
Lord Elgin and the Marbles by William St. Clair 9780192880536
£66.50`The British say they have saved the Marbles. Well, thank you very much. Now give them back.' Melina Mercouri, actress and politician Ever since the sculptures from the Parthenon arrived in England at the beginning of the last century, they have... -
The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton 9780393354447
RRP: £12.99£9.89A perennial favourite, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (The New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the... -
The Horus Killings (Amerotke Mysteries, Book 2): A captivating murder mystery from Ancient Egypt by Paul Doherty
RRP: £9.99£6.80After the death of her husband Pharoh Tuthmosis II, Hatusu has confounded her critics by winning a great battle against the Mitanni. Aided by her lover, Senenmut, she is determined that all sections of Egyptian society should accept her as the first... -
Leuctra 371 BC: The Destruction of Spartan Dominance by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: £15.99£11.61This detailed new study explores the battle of Leuctra and the tactics that ultimately led to the complete defeat of Sparta, and freed Greece from domination by Sparta in a single afternoon. The battle of Leuctra, fought in early July in 371 BC was... -
Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus by Ahmed Osman 9781591430049
RRP: £16.99£14.10During his reign, the Pharaoh Akhenaten was able to abolish the complex pantheon of the ancient Egyptian religion and replace it with a single god, the Aten, who had no image or form. Seizing on the striking similarities between the religious vision of... -
Ovid Fasti: A Selection by Dr Robert Cromarty
RRP: £12.99£11.86This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid, Fasti 2.533-616, 687-852, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in...